Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 11:36:30 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: renaming "Program Files" folder [LIB]
At 07:21 PM 8/03/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 22:12:58 -0500 >From: David VanHorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: renaming "Program Files" folder [LIB] > > >> >>Well I'm thinking more of things like viruses, bad sectors, hardware failure and the >like ... the effects of those things tend to extend past partition boundaries. >> >>What are you referring to? > >Bad sectors happen where they happen, but every time I've seen them, they've been >squarely in one partition or the other. I'm talking catastrophic bad sectors ... the ones that have a nasty habit of appearing right where your partition table was supposed to be (and for some reason its happened to me a few more times than is statistically possible) and having the net effect of ruining all your partitions. In-partition bad sectors are nothing ... heh >Hard fails on the drive or controller take out the whole thing, so it doesn't matter >where you had your data. My point exactly. >The few times I've had the OS pee all over itself, the damage was always isolated to >a partition, or at worst a couple partitions. >Like the most recent event for me, when I converted my system to NTFS partitions. J-D >went fine, but it ate the C partition. Again, everything else was fine. Some apps had >to be reinstalled, some (like this email program) didn't. I didn't bother backing up >C, since there wasn't anything on it that I couldn't reinstall easily. Gah! OK if you're into converting partitions back, forth, left, right, etc. then ya sure ... I just format a partition the way I want and leave it so I guess I don't have that problem ... heh Of course, if the OS pees all over itself then it won't help much that your apps are on D drive given you'll have to reformat and reinstall anyway. To be honest though, I don't even bother keeping my data separate nowadays (I do have a 'warehouse' partition where I keep my bulky junk like MP3s and movies and large apps) ... I just keep all the important stuff in certain folders and back them up regularly (c:\internet and c:\raywork typically). Everything else can disappear as far as I'm concerned ... I got a ghost baseline image on the opposite end of the disk that I can use to restore everything with (and a copy of that image on CD in case a virus wipes out the partition table). - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
