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> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In other words, when the MB is fried because of some freak electrical > > surge, I'm screwed, because I can't put the HD into another machine > > and get the data off it? > > What's wrong with your backups? :-) > > This is like a problem Windows already has: if you move a disk onto > different hardware, more often than not you can't boot because the > wrong Hardware Adaptation Layer info is in the disk's boot sector. At > least you can recover the data by mounting it as a second disk. What's wrong is the backups are presumably encrypted in a way that requires the cooperation of MS to read it on a machine other than the originator. I'm not at all likely to become US president but if I were I'd consider this an issue worth nuking Redmond for in office hours with no warning. -- ############################################################## # Antonomasia ant notatla.demon.co.uk # # See http://www.notatla.demon.co.uk/ # ############################################################## --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
