Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/20

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Subject: [Leica] Consensus on external hard drives
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu Jul 20 18:00:24 2006
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Brian,

The reason that I mentioned the transition problem is that I had previously 
used MSBackup, which was provided with Win98SE.  When a failed power supply 
forced me to buy a new machine with XP Home installed, I found that my 
compressed MSBackup files were unreadable on the new machine.  Perhaps, with 
your expertise, it could have been done.  As someone on the LUG suggested 
when I mentioned the problem, I now create a folder each week on the 
external drive and do a "Copy/Paste" of "My Documents" plus a folder 
containing some images.  The folders are nested in a folder containing only 
2006 Backups.  It takes very little time and should always be accessible 
from Windows.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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