Have Tom buy your HD's, he found a place where they don't fail like when you buy them at Toys R Us.
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:45 PM, gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you may want to back up to something that is 99.9% pure. that is not a > single HD, and it is not using MS software. > > failure rates on hd's are much higher than the > 0.000000000000000000000000001% per year claimed and MS software does not > transfer from one os to another. > > a lot of fragments of the information i want have been overwritten years > ago. if you do those daily, weekly, monthly backups, that information is > gone. > > At 02:04 PM 9/7/2008, you wrote: > >This probably seems a stupid question (though I don't believe there are > >really any stupid questions except those you already know the answer to), > >but if you are regularly backing up to an external hard drive (as I've now > >started to do, scheduled for automatic daily back up) is it still > important > >to do regular back ups on the computer itself, or is it less important to > do > >this very often or regularly? Maybe what I'm really asking is what does > the > >back up on the computer actually do and what and how does it prevent nasty > >things from happening? > > > >Thanks again, > > > >Randall > > > > > >************************************************************************* > >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > >************************************************************************* > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
