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

To: Michael Coley who wrote (53907)	4/30/1998 8:53:00 AM
From: rll	Respond to of 58324

Any info out there on the digital photography panel discussion with Kodak and Olympus?

To: Michael Coley who wrote (53907)	4/30/1998 9:32:00 AM
From: David Colvin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Michael, Not directed at you. I just posted this on the Motley Fool Iomega Board. ********************************************************************* Since I rarely post, this is just FWIW. I purchased a 5.1 Gb Western Digital hard drive in August, 1997 to replace an OEM 2.5 Gb Quantum drive that suddenly "died". Well, for the last week or so, the WDC drive has been dying a slow death via physical damage (more and more bad/damaged sectors) to the drive...verified by running a diagnostic tool downloaded from the WDC internet site. Based on the code produced by the diagnostic tool, WDC technical support initiated the delivery of a free replacement drive last Saturday. In the meantime, I went right out and bought a bigger WDC 6.4 Gb hard drive. Why buy another WDC drive, you ask? Because I'm convinced that sooner or later ALL hard drives give up the ghost. Since WDC has free tech support and they readily replace drives without arguments, I went with WDC again. Maybe I should start waging a "dying sector" campaign against WDC (similar to the zip "clicking death" rubbish that is overblown) in order to trash their stock but I believe that a minimal defect rate is just the way things are in the manufacturing sector. Less that 1% defect rate is good enough for me. After the August, 1997 fiasco, spending 3 days until 1:00 A.M. reloading software and trying to remember all my personal preferences, I was determined that there just HAD to be a better way. Because all hard drives eventually crash, I was determined not to go through that "big deal" again. I own a PP zip drive: o Bought in late 1995 o Have 13 zip disks o I use it every day. Have NEVER had a problem with the drive OR disks, isn't that odd? I, also, own an external 1 Gb jaz drive: o Bought in early 1997 o Have 7 jaz disks o I use it every day. Have NEVER had a problem with the drive OR disks, isn't that odd? I bought a new product last October from the Powerquest Corp. called Drive Image. This product can make an image copy of an entire hard drive partition and store it on a jaz drive. I purposely made my "C" partition 1 Gb so I could create such an image file. It takes 54 min. because it literally makes a byte for byte image. Then started creating an image file, also, for the "D" partition due to additional software installed there. I would regularly recreate these image files at least once a month, more often if I installed new software. Well, yesterday was showtime!!!!!!! I installed my new 6.4 Gb hard drive and then invoked Guest.exe from an Iomega installation disk so the machine would recognize my jaz drive. I then restored "C" image file to an UNFORMATTED hard drive in about 20 min. and rebooted the computer with my fingers crossed. To my amazement, Windows 95 booted normally, and there was my desktop, as if nothing had happened, with everything restored perfectly!!! I, then restored my "D" partition in about 10 additional min. You say I could have done this with a tape backup? I say why go out and buy something else when I already own a jaz drive and this scheme works great and is much faster. I'm so happy this worked I just can't stand it....one of life's little victories for me. Just thought I would relate a factual experience using one of Iomega's VERY RELIABLE products, along with some very ingenious software. Dave