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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: White Shoes who wrote (6899)	3/29/1999 9:00:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Definitely 'cloning' a drive with bad sectors and a lot of convoluted junk (a lot of installing and uninstalling software) I agree. Bad sectors may or may not be a problem. I had a restore fail that was created from a bad drive. Junk can be a problem. It takes me a long time reinstalling all of my junk:) so I tend towards clones and restores. I don't really know a good way to back up all that stuff, other than painstakingly going through everything I do with my computer and saving individual files. PowerQuest Drive Image will back up the entire harddrive into one file. You can restore individual files from the Drive Image file. You can also restore the entire drive. You may want to consider a complete backup to keep on the shelf..just in case you miss something in the selective file backup. Perhaps the local computer outfit could do it for you on CDR media. Zeuspaul