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To: NOW who wrote (14087)	8/22/2003 10:11:06 PM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I use a Zip drive to back up. It's pretty cheap and my guess is they have an external drive that will connect via USB. The type I use is a 100 MB medium, but I believe they have a newer version that is 250 MB. The 100 MB media are pretty cheap and backing up on Zip is pretty easy to do, up to 100 MB at a shot. I have a CD RW drive that I am planning t use to back up bigger stuff once I figure out how to do it. That's probably a more complicated solution than you are looking for.

To: NOW who wrote (14087)	8/22/2003 11:02:50 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

I use a second hard drive, and Paragon Drive Backup. I have a small DOS partition with the backup software, and use Paragon Boot Manager to boot from multiple partitions. Some Dell models can plug a second hard drive into one of the bays. It works out real nicely on my IBM. (A31p). There is a hard drive adaptor that fits into a bay, and will take the same hard drive that is mounted internally in the notebook. To make a backup, I remove the second battery that I normally keep in the left-hand bay, and plug in the hard drive. If there is a disk failure, I can boot from the second drive. If it's a hardware failure, I can remove the second drive from the adapter and use it to replace the internal drive, with just a screwdriver. I'm not sure if you can disassemble the Dell hard drive that plugs into the bay, as you can with the IBM. This may seem like overkill, but I do software development on this machine. It is a very time-consuming process to load all of the necessary software. It wouldn't be practical to just back-up my data, and then re-install the OS and other software in case of a failure or loss/theft.