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To: Lane3 who wrote (3108)1/15/2001 10:10:53 PM
From: cosmicforceRespond to of 6089
 
When my wife's computer did this I replaced her drives with TWO IDENTICAL ones. There is a FREE utility called scheduler and a FREE utility called XCOPY. At 2pm in the afternoon EVERYTHING from drive C: is cloned onto drive d: (It only takes about 20 minutes).

This is about as easy and automatic as it gets. Nothing to remember and nothing to forget. If one or the other ever breaks, you've AT MOST lost the morning's work.

You buy a whole new cheap computer and throw the remaining good drive into it. You've got to consider the computer like a light bulb for most people - they simply aren't going to have the resources handy for repair and by the time this failure occurs you've got about 10,000 hours on your computer. But, if you are really unlucky, you're still covered.

$0.10 per hour is about as cheap as a lease gets!



To: Lane3 who wrote (3108)1/15/2001 10:35:00 PM
From: DayuhanRespond to of 6089
 
That's exactly it... you go on so long with absolutely no problem that when something does hit you get taken by surprise. The thing I lost was really quite a little project, the sort of thing that, once finished, would never need to be thought of again. So it really didn't require much attention. Now it does.

So it goes. Lesson learned. The technologically competent have permission to laugh.


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