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When is expensive not expensive? The answer lies not only in the monetary
value of lost information but also the time, expense, stress and cost of not
having vital information or retrieving (forensically) information off a dead
hard drive. A streamer tape drive, tape and software costs about £175 (plus
VAT) which can be seen as good value. It could be argued that you don't need
to do any preventative maintenance until the day before disaster is due to
strike. Until someone can come up with a way of determining that I would
rather think of the cost as an insurance premium.
Regards.
Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions
"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" <mike.hall.mail@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Bill
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> From what I have seen, a tape streamer is a very expensive option..
> Acronis TrueImage would surely be a better option?
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> Mike Hall
> MVP - Windows Shell/User
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> "Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> To pick up on Mike's comments I was, perhaps, only answering the
>> immediate question of how to get around the present problem (however that
>> may have been caused).
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>> I specialise in preventative maintenance (advising users that if nasty
>> things can happen and how to avoid them). Mike is correct about the need
>> for a back up which should, ideally, not be kept on-site. I would,
>> however go a bit further and advise that consideration needs to be given
>> to backing up the whole of the hard disk from time-to-time and this,
>> effectively, precludes the use of CDs and DVDs. A streamer tape is about
>> the cheapest option.
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>> 'Backing up' onto a media with limited capacity (and it can be a bit
>> slow) tempts users into selecting files to copy. By copying files 'I
>> know I need', files 'I don't know I need or just plan take for granted'
>> are not discovered until the day the hard disk drive falls over.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Bill Ridgeway
>> Computer Solutions
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>> "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" <mike.hall.mail@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>> news:%23JIY7ExUFHA.1148@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>> Medo
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>>> If you are worried about a crash at some time in the future, perhaps you
>>> should be looking at ways to backup your music collection.. purchase of
>>> a DVD writer and some DVDs would be prudent..
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>>> Recovering an operating system is not without its problems, and there
>>> should ALWAYS be a backup policy in place..
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>>> If you have problems with the OS now (you don't make it clear at all
>>> that you have), you should still be looking at backing up, regardless..
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>>> You could, as somebody already suggested, install Windows onto a new
>>> drive and relegate the present primary drive to 'slave' status.. but
>>> even doing it this way, you still need a backup policy that will protect
>>> your files, and the backup media should NOT be part of the day to day
>>> running hardware..
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>>> --
>>> Mike Hall
>>> MVP - Windows Shell/User
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>>> "MedoMaster" <MedoMaster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:9BADBF21-321A-4ECB-9CDC-6B2D3BB789C4@microsoft.com...
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I have big problem, i need to refresh my xp and i do not have second
>>>> hdd
>>>> and i have nearly 35 gig music stored in c: drive which xp installed
>>>> and now
>>>> it is alarming that there might be a crash and i decided to re- install
>>>> Xp
>>>> but i do nat want to format c: drive and i do nat have enough space in
>>>> the d
>>>> drive. i hope there is solution to my problem that there is a way to
>>>> uninstall Xp withoutdoing format
>>>>
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