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To: Jon Tara who wrote (14274)	11/19/2003 7:01:04 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Hard drives are so cheap today, though, that I highly recommend keeping a backup hard drive onto which you make a copy of your complete system. My preferred software for doing this is Paragon Drive Backup. Does Paragon Drive Backup have the capability to copy files that are in use while Windows XP is running? Or do you have to be off-line to make a copy of the Windows system folder? If you have to be off-line, ( not running Windows XP ), what runtime environment is required for running Paragon Drive backup off-line?

To: Jon Tara who wrote (14274)	11/23/2003 10:44:13 PM
From: Surfer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Jon, It appears my hard drive is going to die soon. For the past two days, when I start the computer, my winxp pro goes into chkdsk mode, goes through it, then boots up. Then, everything is normal. It did it twice in the past few days. Also, win xp pro is taking lot of time to boot the system. Called tech support. They claim that I need new hard drive soon. Do you think, I need a new hard drive soon? If so, what's best way to get new hard drive into action before the old one dies. I've backed up my data files on Iomega zip drive. I even backed up my outlook express. Regards.