A sad story

[Joe Sowers]

Pay attention to the last part:

I had an IBM 46 Mbyte drive bite the dust after just one year, along with a lot of other people. Fortunately Hard Drives Northwest in Seattle was able to save most of my data. They put it on a new Seagate 40 Mbyte drive for me. After two days of restoring information this drive went bad. They put they were able to save most of my data again and put it in a folder on a new Seagate drive and installed a new IBM 46 Mbyte replacement drive as a second drive.

Here is the part to pay attention to. I put Roxio's Go Back software on this drive. It is supposed to be a better restore facility than Microsoft's included restore function. After another two days of restoring, Go Back which puts a proprietary overlay over your partitions and shows them as non-DOS, scrambled the data on both drives. HDNW, which is very good at this, couldn't read the partitions had to reformat both drives and reinstall the operating system (Windows ME) from scratch.

Do not use Go Back under any circumstances!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God loves a good backup, so I had almost everything on CD's or on my portable, but it is going to take awhile.

No sympathy cards please, but I had to bitch about my misfortune before warning about Go Back.

Joe


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