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To: Len who wrote (1842)	8/2/1998 12:21:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>what is that 600MB file?<< The 600 MB file is a complete copy of my harddrive. Power Quest Drive Image creates a single file when it backs up a harddrive. There is a compression option but I have opted for no compression. The no compression option allows for single file restoration. I chose a 600 MB OS + basic program installation as the first step in my harddrive restoration. The reason I stopped at 600 MB is that it will fit on a CDR. I do not have access to IDE CDR. I can try a burn on another SCSI CDR however. I am not a regular sound recorder either. The files that I extracted from a CD were averaging about 50 MB. If an audio CD is 74 minutes and it can hold 650 MB that would work out to about 8.8 MB per minute. Just guessing Zeuspaul

To: Len who wrote (1842)	8/2/1998 11:57:00 AM
From: AJ Berger	Respond to of 14778

Advice Exchange for Simulating CDROM's on Hard Drives There used to be a CDROM Simulation Program from MicroTest but the fools took it off the market for no appherent reason other than it may have been competeing with their own CD-ROM tower products... I've spent a considerable amount of time making Hard Drive partitions work like CDROMS and can contribute some insights. Experiment with 1019kb and 516kb partitions. If your CDROM has a few thousend LARGE files, 516 may be enough. If it has Tens of thousends of SMALL files, then 1019 should be used. A very handy program for building multiple partition hard drive CDROM simulations is Partition Magic, which allows you to resize and even move partitions and unused space along your hard drives storage area. Remember to adjust your LASTDRIVE = ? statement to reflect the total number of partitions created, and the CDROM itself. I've never tried compression with hard drive partitions, but I imagine it will work fine as long as you have enough RAM. If anyone reading this has a better CDROM simulation program, especially one with compression and block size management, I'd really like to hear about it, preferably something more commercial like MicroTest, then just a risky shareware item. If anyone HAS that MicroTest CDROM simulation software, and would like to sell me their copy, please Email me privately.