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Mark Steyn: America should celebrate its independence
National Post of Canada ^
| July 5, 2002
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 07/05/2002 12:08:38 PM PDT by Joe Bonforte
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To: Pokey78
bttt
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posted on
07/05/2002 6:09:35 PM PDT
by
summer
To: Joe Bonforte
Terrific stuff from Steyn, as usual!
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posted on
07/05/2002 6:14:00 PM PDT
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Gritty
To: Pokey78
Ping for Steyn. Makes my day. Thank you Pokey!
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posted on
07/05/2002 6:27:16 PM PDT
by
lainde
To: Joe Bonforte; shaggy eel; Byron_the_Aussie
BUMP; PING; PING
To: MeeknMing
Ask someone to confirm this ......
- Make old hard drive the slave and copy over what you need from it. Copy the minimum you need. Do this in one session and get it all over with.
- Then to completely "cleanse" your old drive write zeros to it. Also known as low level reformat. Major manufacturers usually include this utility in their installation floppy disc and said disk is usually available for download too. I have done such reformats. Will take 2-3 hours if disc is 60 gigabytes.
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posted on
07/05/2002 10:05:10 PM PDT
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dennisw
To: dennisw
Depends on what is wrong with the drive. Many HD manufacturers have diagnostic programs that will tell if the disk is bad or just sectors are bad and the disk can be used... but sectors going bad often means the drive is also heading south.
Also the manufacturers include 0 writing programs that totally clean a drive - including MBR- and copy programs to copy the complete drive to another. WD has them.
You can also use Fdisk to totally wipe a drive and start over.
If the drive is bad, check the warrantee. Over the past eight years I had two WD drives go on me and both were replaced.
An investment in a good backup program and CDRW drive was worth it. Recovered everything except two files which I was working on at the time one drive went bad. The other drive was a recall so lost nothing.
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07/06/2002 3:06:40 AM PDT
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KeyWest
To: dennisw
Oh, besides the possible virus problem, the hard drive has 4 bad sectors too.
I need to copy the important files over and then get another hard drive for a
back up drive (slave drive). Thanks, FRiend. :O)
To: MeeknMing
Slave.... I get would 5400 rpm cheaper drive. Even for master I like them. Works good for me and they don't heat up the way the 7200RPM drives do.
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07/06/2002 5:23:06 AM PDT
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dennisw
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