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Hello Ron,
This sounds like a resonable plan, Except the backing up to external USB
drive.
To put it simply - Hard Drives are still fragile things, And having one
Eternal to your
computer is ok as a Transit device, But not a backup device.
External
HD is not safe for Backup's!
You would be worth popping in a CD-Burner (Cheap now) if you havn't
already got
one, And Backing up to CD. Even more so now that CD-R is so darn
inexpensive.
Tape backup is generaly too expensive AND IMHO not particualy
reliable.
I have had Data backed up on DAT, only to loose it when I tried to
restore - And
the Dat drive ate my tape :-(
Currently, I Backup to a fileserver running RAID array. So if one of the
HD's crash & Burn - I Just pull it out & Pop a new one in - The
data is rebuild on the
new drive. There is a cost of course - You need x4 HD's to make the
RAID
and you loose the space of 1 drive. ie 480gb ends up 360gb.
Anyway - I would not recommend using an External drive as a backup
system.
By the sounds of your setup - You would be better burning to
CD.
Also, Definatly leave that 1.6 gig free on your C: drive. As Graham said,
temp files and the like need space to work in, Also - You never know what
you might copy to
the desktop..........
KR
Michael.
At 04:27 PM 15/12/2003, you wrote:
Thanks for all
of the great feedback. This 20 gig was installed by my son, and the
computer does recognize that it is there, but he is unavailable to me
right now. I also just bought an unusual SIIG PCI 133 card that has these
external receptacles>2 )USB2.0 receptacles and 1)
firewire and 1)10/100 Ethernet Port, and inside
it has 1) USB2.0 and 1) firewire. I installed it
myself, but the installation did not go exactly as the instructions said
that it should. I then followed the instructions to see if
the installation was successful. There were a few differences in the
items that got installed in my computer when compared to what it said
should be there. I plugged the Ethernet port in and it works fine.
I immediately emailed support about the differences on Saturday, the day
that I installed the card. Because of problems in the past, I have
decided to wait for SIIG's advice. I also bought a Western Digital
USB2.0 external HD that I will install as soon as I hear from SIIG about
the differences in what was installed. I was wanting to use this external
USB drive for backup, and use the 20 gig inside the computer for only
data, and then devote the 9.3 gig internal drive to programs and the XP
Pro operating system.
My past Outlook Express bad inbox problem was solved
by changing the name of it to inboxbad.dbx .
The spell-check in my notebook is dull, and does not
work, will it also create a new spell-check if I find the file, and
rename to spellcheckbad.dbx? I haven't yet looked for it, so I just
made-up a name for it.
Thanks again for helping me into the 20th
century. At least I can now see the door of the 21st century.
Later Ron D
----- Original Message -----
From: Jayson
To:
amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 10:44 PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] 1.65 gigs OK for awhile?
Alternately many drives come with a CD that does most of the grunt work for you (Format, Partition, copy old files to new drive etc) . I just installed a new drive (160gb $99 US from staples!!) Friday and found the process to be well documented and relatively painless...
Regards,
Jayson
-----Original Message-----
From: Graham [mailto:gkavanagh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 7:09 PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [amibroker] 1.65 gigs OK for awhile?
Hi
There are a few things you would need to do. Jope I have it correct have just gone through this m=yself when the "experts" stuffed up installing a new drive on my older computer, motherboard was limited to 40GB and I could only buy 80GB so had to partition it as 2x40GB and install it correctly. One "expert" had told me it could not be done due to the age of my motherboard (~3yrs old), but having broken my teeth in the old days when fast comps were 12MHz and HDs measured in MBs found I had to do it myself anyway.
1. The hard drives, new and old would need to have the dipswitches set so that the old one is Primary and new is secondary. These settings are available in the information manual you should get with the hard drives, or you can get them from the websites of the manufacturers.
2. You would need the comm cable for double hard drives, end conection is the C drive normally (this is wide flat cable with the red edge stripe positioned furthest from the mother board.
3. Run Fdisk to set the new drive to be set as usable dos drive (not sure if XP does this for you?) and format the drive
4. Windows will then recognise the drive and you are in business.
Cheers,
Graham
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-----Original Message-----
From: mrdavis9 [mailto:mrdavis9@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, 15 December 2003 7:58 AM
To: amibrokeryahoogroups
Subject: [amibroker] 1.65 gigs OK for awhile?
Sorry about this off topic, but this post below to TC support was rejected, and don't know who else to ask? TIA for all advice. Ron D
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This was rejected by the TC2k support server.
My computer's 9.3 gig HD is almost full. It has 1.65 gigs of free space. I have installed a second HD to handle additional data, but I have not found anyone yet to configure it so that my computer will be able to use this extra HD capacity.
I ordered a TC2k CD that I was told I would be able to download data starting on Jan 12,2003.
If I am able to hire someone to make this second 20gig HD available by January 1,2004,
do you think that It will probably be OK to add TC2k now so that I can start using the TC2k data? I have XP pro, and do not have any crashing or freezing problems at all.
Ron D
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