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My buddy lost his 80 gb HF two weeks ago,, with bunches of family pictures, his complete
movie base,, and all his music,, ect,,ect He backed up some of his music & pictures to
CD but his library had grown to be larger than one 700 MB cd,, so backups had slipped.
As his system was an older 2GHz, he decided to get a new 8400, 3.4 GHz, w/160 GB drive...
He would like to be able to schedule a mirror copy routine at 12 am, on to a redundant 160
mb drive. He uses XP as built, lets MS put things where it wants,, doesn't really know or
care to know where XP puts things. He just wants a complete backup,, and if it was
IPL'able by switching cables,, that would be great...
I an working to help him buy another 160 GB drive, but I'm at a loss for the software..
1)Any suggestions and/or antidotal stories about which packages work-don't, easy-hard,,
cheap-expensive???
2)The drive that went south,, he's wants to send it to a data recovery service to see if
the data can be salvaged.. Anyone have any suggestions about a commercial recover
service??
My system is the same age and the last time I looked, the anti-virus scan found 500K
files, with 8.4 GB of digital film,, I also need to do some pre-failure planning..
Thanks
Jim
An Old Parrot Head
In The Conch Republic
Just South of Reality
My buddy lost his 80 gb HF two weeks ago,, with bunches of family pictures, his complete
movie base,, and all his music,, ect,,ect He backed up some of his music & pictures to
CD but his library had grown to be larger than one 700 MB cd,, so backups had slipped.
As his system was an older 2GHz, he decided to get a new 8400, 3.4 GHz, w/160 GB drive...
He would like to be able to schedule a mirror copy routine at 12 am, on to a redundant 160
mb drive. He uses XP as built, lets MS put things where it wants,, doesn't really know or
care to know where XP puts things. He just wants a complete backup,, and if it was
IPL'able by switching cables,, that would be great...
I an working to help him buy another 160 GB drive, but I'm at a loss for the software..
1)Any suggestions and/or antidotal stories about which packages work-don't, easy-hard,,
cheap-expensive???
2)The drive that went south,, he's wants to send it to a data recovery service to see if
the data can be salvaged.. Anyone have any suggestions about a commercial recover
service??
My system is the same age and the last time I looked, the anti-virus scan found 500K
files, with 8.4 GB of digital film,, I also need to do some pre-failure planning..
Thanks
Jim
An Old Parrot Head
In The Conch Republic
Just South of Reality