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To: Andja Miskin who wrote (2628)	9/24/1998 1:08:00 AM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Sorry, no experience with Linux. NT can be a beast sometimes, but properly configured with compatible hardware and good drivers, I think it is a pretty solid, great OS. It is like anything else, when you get to know it, it isn't really all that bad. Have you or anyone else tried Ghost software for full system backups? It is available at ghost.com. They were just bought out by Symantec. It supports fat, ntfs, and much more. When I have gotten my system the way I want it, configured and running well, I "ghost" it to a single image file and then burn a CD of that image file. If I ever need to restore from either a bad software crash that has damaged system files or from a bad hard drive, I just use the image file to recreate the disk or partition without using fdisk or format or anything. Upon recreating you can also resize the new partition. I do backup my data files separately to tape or removable jaz. Check it out, this is one great application! It has saved me many, many hours when having to reinstall OSes. It is very quick. I will always ghost a partition before doing a major software install, it lets me "backup" to where I was before the install if necessary. Sorry you are having so much trouble witn NT/95/98. Good Luck Dan

To: Andja Miskin who wrote (2628)	9/24/1998 9:19:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

Andja, Yeah what do you want to know? Sean

To: Andja Miskin who wrote (2628)	9/24/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: Clarence Dodge	Respond to of 14778

Andja Helppp!!! I don't have any suggestions for you except maybe Zeuspauls KOT 2-drive arrangement???? (Quote From ZP post) I am sold on two harddrives. I will not call it a backup drive as that gets too many people excited. It is a KOT Drive (Keep On Truck'n). I have never felt so comfortable as I do now with my two harddiscs. It is a very simple procedure with Partition Magic and a second harddrive. There is no fear loading games or questionable software. Unexpected crashes are not a problem. Should the system crash, cold boot, go into bios, change your boot drive and you are up and running in less than five minutes. ( a better procedure would be to restore the first drive so as to maintain two working drives, this procedure would add ten minutes+/-) (End ZP quote) I hope ZP reads this and responds with more, though he is quite busy with other matters these days (our loss). I am interested in the responses to your problem and am surprised there aren"t more, maybe later Here in sympathy, at least <g> Clarence.

To: Andja Miskin who wrote (2628)	9/24/1998 10:58:00 AM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

Are you still getting the blue screen on boot up? or is this just a general lament into the stratosphere? If the former, there are several steps you might take depending on configuration, whether or not you have an emergency repair disk (and how old), where in the process you're failing, etc. Post details and we'll try to help. If the latter, you're shouting in the right place <g>. Spots

To: Andja Miskin who wrote (2628)	9/24/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

KOT drives Clarence, reading and posting is not that tough. The index project is what takes a lot of time. They just don't allow you to fix problems easily, and restoring your system if you do have a serious problem is impossible. Helppp!!! I am not up on tape backup but I assume you are using NT to back up NT? Drive Image and Ghost have both been mentioned. I am not familiar with Ghost but use Drive Image. Drive Image is a DOS program. You can run it from the floppy drive or from a harddrive with a dos mode prompt in Win95/98. KOT drives Disclaimer. Second harddrives are not considered reliable stand alone back up systems. One needs to incorporate removable media in an overall backup strategy. The KOT ( keep on truck'in) drive is a second harddrive. It is a quick and easy way to restore an entire operating system and program installations. Before I install new software or hardware or experiment with configurations I use Drive Copy by PowerQuest to make a clone of the primary harddrive. The time varies depending on the size of the harddrive that is duplicated. Figure about twenty minutes for a couple of GB. Should the Primary OS installation fail the restoration process is very simple. One need only enter the bios on boot ( before any OS is loaded) and change the boot sequence of the drives. The machine will then boot to the second harddrive. I think this should work for all ( most?) OSes including, DOS, WIN95/98, NT , LINUX, BEOS? It has saved me countless hours of OS and software installations after a computer glitch rendered my machine crippled or useless. Zeuspaul