Ground Control - We've got a problem

[Oddysey]

Ralph;

Understood about Bing, etc. How much hair did you pull out when you discovered that your backup was also bogus?

Me, I just use an old hard drive I had laying around after my last upgrade. I've got a "removable" type carrier that slides into a 5.25" bay, and the old drive is mounted in that. When I want to backup or restore, I just slide that puppy into the magic slot, reboot (the BIOS has to recognize the drive), and then use some form of the xcopy command. Ta-da! Instant full fledged backup (or restore, as needed).

When I'm done, out comes the drive, and back into the cabinet it goes. If there's ever a Class One meltdown, then that drive is safe - it wasn't near enough to the machine to be harmed!


Oddysey