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To: thecow who wrote (27714)	6/17/2002 6:31:16 AM
From: thecow	Respond to of 110655

backup, backup, backup!!! Yesterday afternoon I got a call from work saying we were getting a blue screen with a warning about an unaccessible disk device. If this is the first warning restart. If it is not the first time you have received this warning check for a possible virus infection or disk controller problem. Running Windows 2000 on a new Dell Omniplex P4 with Western Digital 20 gig hard drive. All this talk about hard drive failures went in one ear and out the other till now. Lost six weeks of work data due to hard drive failure. This is the third WD/Dell hard drive to go south in the city system within the last two weeks. The only symptom I noticed was a few hard drive clicks the last couple of days when it shouldn't have been writing anything to the disk but we're networked so I figured sys admin or city IT might have been doing something. Will head out this morning to buy my new cdrw and some disks to back up my "stuff" daily! tc :-(

To: thecow who wrote (27714)	6/17/2002 2:34:09 PM
From: Ron	Respond to of 110655

Something strange has gotten into my web browsers lately. When I boot up, and go to the internet, I get an error message. When I check settings I find that in netscape something has changed the setting to "automatic proxy configuration" rather than direct connection to internet. When I change the setting to direct connection, the browsers then work fine. But they don't hold the setting. Next boot up..sure enough they are switched back to that proxy setting. Any advice would be appreciated.. Ron