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I am slowly coming back amongst the living. With the amount of trouble
I had getting there, I am taken the advise previously given to make
use of something with an image. I have a version of Acronis to make my
mind up about.
Unfortunately it does not see my CD writers (2 Sony, 1 CD and the
other DVD) but it does see my Floppie drive. I am not too happy with
that as from time to time you have to clean and exercise it to make it
work. I have a special cleaner disk and some solvent to clean the
heads but after that I have to format several times to get it to read
a disk with some known good data.
Also floppies are now old hat compared to CD's in my opinion.
I had a massive break down with the motherboard not wanting to go
beyond installing COM+ at which it stalled.
A new Sapphire board cured that. I managed to get most of my data and
programs as I had 2x 200 GB drives and only the first one had lost
everything. That was the one containing the 2000 on a 7.81 GB
partition and D (programs) and F(with photos and video's) sharing the
remainder of the 200 GB.
I have bought a new 200GB and installed all the rescued data and
programs on the new disk(0). The old disk has some useless information
it and the second partition need to be formatted but everything seems
to be in order when I look at the machine in Settings/ Admin/Disk
Management with disk in order as A:, C: D: E: and F: and G: on the
second disk, After that is H: and I: as CD and DVD. The same occurs in
Explorer whereas when I start as OWNER it also shows the Card Readers
of which there are 2. At on time Aconis saw those and asked for a disk
to be inserted. I am able to write a mirror straight on to the DVD
drive if I so chose - so why does the list of drives just show A:
which prevents me from burning a CD as a bootable rescue media.
I do have a set of 6 floppies and I suppose they would assist me in
burning the CD but surely there must be a more sensible way to do it.
Please help
Borge Pedersen,
Perth, Australia
I had getting there, I am taken the advise previously given to make
use of something with an image. I have a version of Acronis to make my
mind up about.
Unfortunately it does not see my CD writers (2 Sony, 1 CD and the
other DVD) but it does see my Floppie drive. I am not too happy with
that as from time to time you have to clean and exercise it to make it
work. I have a special cleaner disk and some solvent to clean the
heads but after that I have to format several times to get it to read
a disk with some known good data.
Also floppies are now old hat compared to CD's in my opinion.
I had a massive break down with the motherboard not wanting to go
beyond installing COM+ at which it stalled.
A new Sapphire board cured that. I managed to get most of my data and
programs as I had 2x 200 GB drives and only the first one had lost
everything. That was the one containing the 2000 on a 7.81 GB
partition and D (programs) and F(with photos and video's) sharing the
remainder of the 200 GB.
I have bought a new 200GB and installed all the rescued data and
programs on the new disk(0). The old disk has some useless information
it and the second partition need to be formatted but everything seems
to be in order when I look at the machine in Settings/ Admin/Disk
Management with disk in order as A:, C: D: E: and F: and G: on the
second disk, After that is H: and I: as CD and DVD. The same occurs in
Explorer whereas when I start as OWNER it also shows the Card Readers
of which there are 2. At on time Aconis saw those and asked for a disk
to be inserted. I am able to write a mirror straight on to the DVD
drive if I so chose - so why does the list of drives just show A:
which prevents me from burning a CD as a bootable rescue media.
I do have a set of 6 floppies and I suppose they would assist me in
burning the CD but surely there must be a more sensible way to do it.
Please help
Borge Pedersen,
Perth, Australia