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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Craig Richards who wrote (2384)	10/19/1998 11:56:00 PM
From: Chucky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Craig, If I'm not mistaken, the Norton recovery disk is a "big deal" because it allows you to have the one disk to boot from and use the Norton rescue tools on that disk rather then swapping floppies since you can't access any of the recovery programs on your hard drive. Of course it probably isn't that big a deal, but it does allow you to get back to your previous windows settings rather than start from scratch with the original CD windows, which sounds kind of nifty. If it were really the "big deal," they probably wouldn't just give the software away--they are doing that aren't they? I'm, however, not too sure of all this since I still use a Mac. Later Chucky

To: Craig Richards who wrote (2384)	10/20/1998 9:54:00 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 10072

** WARNING Techno-nerd discussion ** Craig - When you say "complete system boot disk," are you talking about a disk with a complete copy of the operating system? No, this cannot be done with 95 or 98. Not from the DOS prompt or the GUI. If you use the "copy system files only" option in the format dialogue box in Windows 95/98, you end up with a bootable Zip disk. However, it will only boot to the command line mode. The Norton Zip Rescue program, on the other hand, allows you to boot to the complete GUI interface. Putting the operating system on a Zip is not a big deal. Most users won't be able to boot from it anyway, because most PC BIOSes won't support booting from anything but the a: drive, the primary hard disk, or (in some more modern systems) the CD-ROM. Many recent (last year or more) BIOSes have a setting that allows you to select the Zip or LS-120 as a boot device, but I assume this will work only with ATAPI drives. Moreover, many users aren't comfortable with going in to the BIOS setup program and making changes. - Allen