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To: thecow who wrote (34722)	6/12/2003 8:16:44 AM
From: Patricia Meaney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110603

What will we do without you? LOL Have a great trip!

To: thecow who wrote (34722)	6/12/2003 10:32:34 AM
From: RMP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110603

Enjoy your trip. Whatever happened to the cow that was lifted into the air by the tornado? Udder disaster!

To: thecow who wrote (34722)	6/12/2003 1:33:40 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110603

After 2 years of faffing around (on and off in a desultory fashion) with Norton Ghost 2001, I bought the upgraded Norton 2003 for my Windows XP and Windows 2000 hard drive backups. Within a few hours I had image copies of all my computer data. I have copies both on a hard drive and burned onto CD ROMS. I also got a copy of a program called "Alcohol 120" and made back up image copies of all my important CD's that cannot be normally copied. Thus I finally have a real backup to all my data. In the past I have lost large chunks of data, and (or) had to reload Microcrap software from the friggin beginning many, many times. It's supposed to last forever but the OS's crap out eventually for one reason or another. Progress at last! (well maybe, lets see what happens after the next crash) pb.

To: thecow who wrote (34722)	6/13/2003 2:11:39 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110603

Question about using external hard drives. I use several computers and hate wasting time if I need to restore and reformat. So I have thought about buying an external hard drive which is very cheap, e.g $250 for 200 TGB, 7200 RPM, USB 2.0 and f/wire. My questions relate to using this in the event of a catastrophe or with someone else's computer. I know this will be good for backing up data but I can do that with CD and DVD media. If I copy the entire C drive to the external drive and then restore after a reformat, will this save time over reinstalling and configuring the programs I use which are Win XP PRO, Office XP pro, Quicken, Corel Office, TurboTax. Will the activation crap prevent this or will it recognize that it is the same computer? How about if I were to buy a new computer and wanted to copy from the external drive to the C drive of the new computer. I would assume activation would prevent me from using. I would also assume that I could not use software on my external drive on a friend's computer because of the activation issue. I hope I'm being coherent in this post but my real question is whether this will save time as I don't really see the need to use it strictly as a backup given CD and DVD media. Thanks in advance as usual to all the experts on this thread.