On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:54:19 -0000, you wrote:

>Keep the chocolate biscuits as a pacifier when you tell her that you cannot
>recover/retrieve her data.
>( let her eat 1, then with the others within her reach, tell her, and go to
>make a cup of hot chocolate )

Would love to but she is 28 miles away.


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>----------------------------
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>Also - re setup of system
>
>move internet temp stuff to second partition on drive

What 2nd partition?  170 Gb formatted to Fat 32 Ho Ho Ho!

>move email to somewhere within the user's profile, and make sure it gets
>backed up somewhere else.
>
>For my users I use DOS 'Bat' script to put stuff into a main recovery
>directory, and from there
>pull the 'new' stuff (by date)  into a 'dated' directory - both on their
>second drive.

Hang on a mo!  This is a Mums computer with 3 kids faffing about with it.  I 
just deleted 480+ 2Kb
IDX files and 57 found000 files and the Hdd is all over the place.


>
>If they lose their entire profile, I can recover it - either using 'my'
>admin level id within their OS installation or, after recovering their OS to
>a state where they can use it,  from the OS on the second drive
>and - all I need is a facility to un-hide that second OS partition
>.. That is assuming they don't delete that partition .. in which case it's
>restore from the DVD based image of that partition, the one that I keep.

Too complicated for them...............

>

Sir Hugh of Bognor
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