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re: (MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help
Sunday, July 11, 2004 at 5:53 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Donna R
(437 messages posted)
what I do is make a ghost of my hard drive and burn it to a cd. give it a name
with a date. your drive may be too large, I don't know how small a file it could
be compressed to. since my drive is partitioned I ghost the c drive, main partition,
to another partition. then burn that onto a cd. you could ghost to your slave drive,
though.
I have norton ghost but did NOT install it on my computer. all you need is the ghost.exe
file copied from the cd onto a floppy or a bootable cd. my win98 boot disk was full
so I just put it in the a drive and boot then take it out and put the ghost disk
in and type ghost and it runs in dos. I think there are some free ghost programs
on the net.
if you haven't done this before, and even if you have, be very careful to choose
your winme partition as the source so that you don't write over it!
Donna
On Saturday, July 10, 2004 at 9:42 pm, jeff wrote:
>I found this site today and have found it very useful. I am copying a post that
>I made on the microsoft newsgroup on june 27 but got no response. I have found
the
>posts by "mac" to be extremly informative and I hope if you read this post you will
>find time to offer your advice. I am including the following info about my computer
>since I have noticed you asking for it in numerous posts.
>
>Dell deminsion 2100
>windows ME
>drive c 20gb(original)
>drive d 100gb(added soon after buying digital camera!)
>356mb ram
>drive is set up as sent by dell
>
>(copied message)
>Hello,
>
>While running an online virus scanner my Norton Antivirus
>popped up a warning and I followed the prompts. After a
>few minutes the system became unstable and I had to shut
>it down.
>
>When I restarted some of my data was gone. For instance
>if I click on "favorites" some links are there, but many
>are not. If I click on my "casio" icon none of my digital
>photos are there.
>
>I ran a couple of data recovery programs and they found
>nothing. Somewhere along the way Windows ME became REALLY
>screwed up so I changed that drive over as a slave. I
>then went to "my computer" and did a search on the bad
>drive for "favorites" and "casio". Both searches found
>all of the missing data and what appears to be numerous
>duplicate folders with the same name. Some of them have
>the same data and others have only partial or no data at
>all. This affects more than just to two mentioned folders
>used as examples.
>
>What I need to do is make back ups of my data and then
>wipe the drive and start again. Is there a method to this
>or a program that I can run that will help me with this.
>I will be doing back ups to a cd burner and the drive is
>100 gig at about 40% full.
>
>Some thoughts I had were to delete data as it is
>transfered to the cd to eliminate clutter. I also was
>considering running a program that compares like files to
>eliminate duplicates and when everything is complete I was
>going to use the Western Digital site to "write zeros" to
>this drive so I can have a clean drive to start from.
>
>Any advice offered would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks, jeff
>
>
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