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To: PMS Witch who wrote (13615)	8/7/2002 8:38:31 AM
From: Robert Graham	Respond to of 14778

If I were considering a back-up system, I’d take a good look at external CD burners that plug into the parallel printer outlet. Get a USB cabled external CD Burner. This is allot faster. Imagine backing up 12G through a parallel cable! Most newer machines have USB ports. I also think there is a USB to parallel converter available. So you can have the best of both worlds. :-) An external hard drive as a backup source is feasible but a more costly alternative that does take up desk space. Plug both into a UPS. So the external drive with the UPS is a solution that can cost as much as $500. Or if no UPS, plug in the external drive and reboot the PC when you want to make a backup. Then unplug it from the PC and the surge supressor. You may just want to install the additional hard drive as a second drive and then at the end of the day make your backup as a drive to drive copy of file directories. This can work and is the easiest and cheapest solution. But your back up device is no longer isolated from the rest of the system, and will require "surgery" when you must transplant it into another PC. That is if the drive still works, which depends on what caused the PC malfunction and luck. Bob Graham

To: PMS Witch who wrote (13615)	8/15/2002 6:11:44 PM
From: Zeddie88	Respond to of 14778

PW, As the computer salesman tried to calm me down this afternoon by trying to explain to me why it had taken him a week and a half to determine that both hard drives in computer #2 were defective, he mentioned that he sold this hard drive "cradle" for $15.00 that would enable me to install a 2nd hard drive, back up the data from the main hard drive onto it and then remove the hard drive for safe storage. In summary, both computers are still down but I think I know what to do now. Thanks for your help! Sue