Backup
Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DNA
(551 messages posted)
Y'know, you may be too smart for this forum. 8-)
Everyone else shows up AFTER their "precious" data is long gone. 8-(
Hey, you can't want to back up your data Before it's gone,
that makes Too Much Sense!. >;^)
One very nice option for 'backup' nowadays is to put your old PC's hard drive into
an external drive enclosure. Remove the hard drive, and sell or donate the old PC
(this also eliminates any 'data recovery' concerns!). If your old PC is higher up
the 'old PC ladder' (say >1 Ghz and 512+ of RAM), and you wish to sell it, consider
installing a new hard drive and installing everything fresh. A new hard drive
and a fresh OS/driver install is a good selling point! (My old Athlon 1.1. with a
fresh install of XP Home on a new 80 GB hard drive, was gone an hour after
I put it up for sale!) :^)
Install the old PC's hard drive into an external drive enclosure, and all your data
is already on there and ready to copy to your new PC.
Windows 9x uses the FAT16 or FAT32 file systems, either of which are fully readable/writable
on Windows 2000 and above, and on modern versions of Mac and Linux O.S'es.
Once your data is safely transferred to your new computer and backed up by other
means, you can format your old hard drive and use it for miscellaneous 'non-critical'
data transfer and backup (ex.: to take music or photo files with you while you're
on vacation, without the risk of losing your 'critical backup' external hard drive!)
I use five external hard drives, three of which are 'critical backup' drives (new
500 GB eSATA drives) and the other two are 'non-critical' older IDE drives in USB
2.0 enclosures, if either of those break it's not the end of the world.
PS: Giving DVD±R's of your photos to friends and family (not living with you) does
in fact qualify as 'off-site' backup!
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Athlon 3000+ 939 - 1GB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro SP2
Athlon 4000+X2 AM2 - 3GB RAM = 2000 SP4 & XP Pro SP2
IBM ThinkPad PIII 933 - 512 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2
Windows 2000 Server in the basement
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