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To: Surfer who wrote (14319)	11/24/2003 8:24:40 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

does paragon software needs space or it works off CD drive? If you get Paragon Drive Backup on a CD then Paragon Drive Backup comes with its own runtime environment and will not use any space on your backup hard drive. But to run Paragon Drive Backup from a CD you will need to select the boot from CD option in your BIOS during bootup. Can I boot off the new drive through USB connection and do my work normally while waiting for the new hard drive to come and get installed? You will need to either read the manual for your motherboard's BIOS, examine your motherboards BIOS during bootup or call the company you bought your computer from for an answer to this question. ,

To: Surfer who wrote (14319)	11/25/2003 6:08:51 AM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Drive Backup can run from: - A CD. If you buy it on a CD, there's your CD. If you buy it online, and do a bit of fiddling, you can make a CD. - A floppy. Yup, a floppy. They pull some neat tricks to do it, but they do it. It is compressed on the floppy. During boot-up they create a RAM drive, and uncompress onto the RAM drive. - From a DOS partition on your hard drive. It doesn't need very much space. Not more than a couple (or maybe 3?) megabytes. - From Windows XP (if Windows XP is still working...). (Not from Windows Server 2003 - yet...) Good for making your weekly backups. It will reboot your machine to do the actual backup. But you set-up the backup in Windows. I use it with Paragon's Boot Manager, and install it into a small DOS partition. I have a floppy handy in case it should ever fail to boot. But my emergency posture is plug in the backup disk and get back up in a matter of minutes.