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I know how you feel. Ask anyone here about my...erhem colorfull history with computer hard drives.

Microsoft Works, the biggest oxymoron in the universes.

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enormity games are at 60 hours while your dealing with the pain

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now that really is a true statement if I have ever read one. Well said Lord Kodos, well said.

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Symantec Ghost? What is that and how can it help prevent HD melt down?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">IIRC, it's a backup application that creates a copy (mirror/ghost/image/etc) of the HDD, just in case it craps out on you. Saves reinstallation as well...

My networking classes were a while back, but the info should be relatively correct http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif .

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">At least the Swarm are still available on the PBW site. Perhaps we could arrange for Trooper to give them a home at SOTAS.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Xaren is correct, it can't prevent a HD from going bad, but it saves you a lot of heartache when/if it ever does. I keep a spare "cloned" HD in my computer now so if my original one dies all I have to do is swap a cable and I'm right back in business. Pretty handy, especially for folks like me who tend to have rotten luck with HD's.

And in the long run, investing in a backup HD to store your ghost image is a lot cheaper than doing multi-volume CDR backups.

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Not when CD-RWs cost you less than 20 cetns a piece... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Kept intending to do that but never got around to it, I'll be getting a new Gateway system on thursday, till then I'll be gnawing my fingernails off http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif (I'm back in the library, this time next to an overweight, not fat just overweight, guy in a tank top that's wearing sunglasses on his head)

[ June 17, 2003, 20:18: Message edited by: Hugh Manatee ]