Full Version: Do Not Trust Disk Image
From: Cody (BOBTNAILER) [#2]
21 Jul 2006
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#1] 21 Jul 2006
Harvey,
Thank you very much for sharing that.
I've used a Maxtor OneTouch II for the last year to do backup images on all my machines. After reading about your problem, I think I'll go back to just copying all my data files onto the backup drive (rather than a complete disk image).
Sorry this happened to you, my friend...must be incredibly frustrating.
Cody
From: Carl (CSEWELL) [#3]
21 Jul 2006
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#1] 21 Jul 2006
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#4]
21 Jul 2006
To: Carl (CSEWELL) [#3] 21 Jul 2006
It is a dell 8100 and an IBM Deskstar 40 Gig drive.
It was replaced with a 40 Gig drive for compatability.
From: Dave Jones (DAVERJ) [#5]
21 Jul 2006
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#4] 21 Jul 2006
I could be wrong, but I believe XP will only format a FAT32 drive up to 32GB during installation, but after installation it is capable of formatting one larger. I know it has no problem reading and writing to a larger one. I can format a USB 250GB FAT32 drive on my iMac and XP can use it OK.
I back up important documents directly to USB drives by simply copying folders. For full system backups I have been using Retrospect SBS server, but haven't had a major failure since I started using it, so don't know if it's really the best. I have multiple USB drives (rotating between home and office) with the documents backed up, so even if I have to reinstall the system and applications, I have the data files safely saved away. Most of my important documents are kept on a file server, which makes it easy to back them all up at once.
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#6]
21 Jul 2006
To: Dave Jones (DAVERJ) [#5] 21 Jul 2006
Would not format FAT32 on installation. Went in later to the command prompt and set it to FAT32 and it spent 20 minutes formatting then said the disk was too large for FAT32. Instructed it to make 32K clusters and same result. The only thing that would do it was WinME and I allowed that to default with no success. The original was formatted by Dell and came with WinME so I thought that would be a good bet.
It was my stupidity that relied on Disk Image and not doing backups on CD's since Jan 2004. So I was able to get some old info from there.
I also have a documents directory that I created for all, (yeah sure), documents that I saved in normal file format. Thank goodness, I got some irreplaceable info out of that like my layouts for Corel for all of the product that I make. But the laser settings were in a different folder and I only have backups from 1/2004, but that is something. Lost the laser driver though.
From: Dave Jones (DAVERJ) [#7]
21 Jul 2006
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#6] 22 Jul 2006