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Originally Posted by Lebenz
IDE drives (both STA and AT/E/IDE) are akin to a mid engined vehicle at the cornering limit. You get a little whiny noise that you only hardly notice and you’re in the guardrail. I suggest getting a spare drive today, configure the drive as an extended partition and back up everything. A really good shareware program is called xxcopy. I use it on a lot of computers. There is also a program called ghost that will mirror one to the other.
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I have one of the external hard drives that I have not installed yet. I got it to ease the task of backups. Right now I'm up to four CD's.
How does the xxcopy program or the ghost program simplify the task of backing up data? I'm not thinking of backing up the entire machine on the external drive, but, would you think this is preferable?
It's getting about time to reload all the software, anyway. So, I'll be more than happy to have all my documents protected. However, I'm sure that they fail at the most inopportune times.
