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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Linda Pearson who wrote (42421)	1/5/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: Vaughn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

To All: -- A new Zip sales driver -- Just got the new Norton Utilities this weekend and found they have a new feature that uses ZIP or Jazz(exclusively). It's called "Norton Zip Rescue." It generates an emergency W95 backup using a single floppy and a ZIP disk. It's used as a recovery tool if W95 develops catastrophic problems. And it works. Note that the floppy is only needed for the boot component and is not required if your PC is Zip boot capable. Looking at the Zip directory after the Norton generation phase, the build process laid down over 50MB of boot, W95, diagnose, and rebuild stuff. That almost 40 floppies. For those interested, this is a summary what happened. After installing NU and building the emergency disk, I went on to install a bunch of other apps, subsystems, new drivers, etc. Low and behold, W95 crashed (GP faults) while using Netscape to download. Tried some other apps and got random failures. Even NU got failures when I tried to kick off its apps to help with the diagnosis. Failures continued after registry restore and reboot. Now its decision time; restore, rebuild, or rip out. Restore is out because the backup it is so old and buggy that it wouldn't be worth it. Ripping out stuff takes forever to do it right and very rarely helps. Rebuild, yuck. Ah ha, another option. Use the Zip. It was slow to get W95 up using the Zip, but after about 10 minutes I was working in W95 with the NU emergency apps. Took a number of actions with NU and finally rebooted from the HD. Viola, W95 and all apps work. I'm not sure what the original problem was but I do know this application and my Zip saved many hours of rebuild. Now that I have a current back-up I'll try to recreate the problem knowing that I have a two ways to restore an operational environment. Thinking about it later, if I didn't already have the Zip, I'd get one for this use alone