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To: thecow who wrote (49343)	1/31/2006 10:25:58 AM
From: fastcats	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110590

Thanks for your replies re imaging. You confirmed my suspicions. My photo files are just shy of 100GB, hence the dedicated external backup drive. DVD backup is something I have wanted to do, but never seem to find the time nor have I wanted to pay for DVDs of high enough quality to ensure long-term storage viability. Multiple hard drives seem cheaper. Also, many of my photos are processed jpegs. Deleting or transferring and recopying .jpg files is not a good idea because each copy reduces the quality of the image additively. If I can image one partition without imaging others, that might solve my problem. I remember years ago that one couldn't create a partition without reformatting the drive, thereby destroying all info on the drive. I seem to recall using Partition Magic later to avoid that problem. Are there good programs out there that will create a partition without destroying data?... on a RAID 0 drive? Thanks again. John

To: thecow who wrote (49343)	1/31/2006 9:56:03 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110590

Hot cow dives into pool ananova.com A cow clambered into a neighbour's garden and jumped in a swimming pool during a heatwave in Brazil. With temperatures approaching 40C, the cow got over a fence and went straight to the pool of the home in Taubate. The owner of the house told SPTV: “I heard a noise and came to check what was going on when I saw the most absurd thing in the world, a cow in the swimming pool!” The woman called the fire fighters to help get the animal out of the pool. A spokesman for the fire brigade said: "It was the first job of this kind in the 20 years I’ve been here, it was really quirky!"