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04-05-01, 01:33 PM

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Anyone using removable HD's? if so, how do you like it? I plan on converting all my hd's to removable but looking for pros and cons. I cant think of any cons at the moment.

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04-05-01, 01:57 PM

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Personally I think you should have a C drive that is fixed to the 1 computer, but any other hard drives could be removeable. If you have a removeable C drive, the your windwos operating system is going to be forever finding new hardware everytime you move it to another computer unless all computers have an identical configuration, same motherboard, same soudn card, modem, monitor, you name it the same, otherwise as I said it will be forever finding new hardware everytime it is moved. If you haev a 2nd harddrive with just install files, mp3's , software install files on it, then a removeable hard drive will be find. But if there is an installed program on this 2nd drive and you remove it , it will no longer be working, adn chances are won't work on the next computer because it may be missing files in the windwos directory in the C drive and registry settings. I think a removeable drive works best as a backup device that is transportable. I don't use removable hard drives, I have cdr to backup files, if there is anyone here that does use them then lets here what you think.

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04-06-01, 04:32 AM

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the removable will be used for operating systems on one machine. 98/2000/linux...etc. the idea of multiple boot os' is not that appealing to me, hence the rmovable hd's.

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04-06-01, 06:22 AM

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If it for use on one computer , the senereo is not as bad although I haven't tried such an arrangement , it should work. Just be sure it is powered off before changeing drives, and of course all drives if a main system C drive will have to be set as a master. Have your bios set for auto detect (IDE primary & secondary). Bear in mind that windows nt & 2000 may not be fully compatable with every type of card (video, etc) and most likely when you first set these systems up you will have to go and get the very latest drivers for these cards for use on windows 2000 and linux operating systems.

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email question received as follows... -----Original Message----- From: Swamprose418@cs.com [mailto:Swamprose418@cs.com] Sent: April 6, 2001 12:42 AM To: dkerr@ottawa.com Subject: Bonnie Sprinkle hi don, been kind of hard getting back on the net as of late. me trying to fix other puters and mine crashing every four or five minutes. can any of you guys help me find a remedy for this problem w/o doing a complete format? i really don't want to do that, for i have so much important stuff and programs on my puter. i do have a recently purchased iomega 250 zip drive, but i'm still not exactly how to use it although i do know how to follow directions. what if i zip it all up then can't unzip after the format, or worse still, what if i zip up the culprit that's giving me all the pain, and unzip it right back onto the newly formated drive? i do the msconfig and do selective start-up, and it seems as if i have not so many problems, but i can't figure out which one is causing the damage. i also now have 191 mgs of memory, but a couple of the illegal operations tells me, especially dial-up, that it is trying to access memory which isn't there. is there any help for this from some of you gurus???? help would be much appreciated, and my grandson is throughly enjoying the puter i passed on to him. thanks for taking up time with me. Bonnie Sprinkle [swamprose) __________________________________________________________s Short of redoing the system which I feel may be the best solution, but does anyone have any ideas short of that because she seems to have a lot of reservations on that option. ----- Bonnie do you have the install cd's for all software that you have to save. There is no point in backing up software unless it is the actual install files. What you back up is install files and personal data files. You can reinstall the software (provided for have or can obtain the install cd) after the drive is formated and system installed and stable. ------------------------- Another reference she made awhile back was an illegal operation in Wcs2000. This is I assume to be Compuserve 2000 Bonnie is this the same error as you are referring to now ? And does it only occur when using compuserve ? Bonnie , one way to add assurance to your backup material, is to copy to 2 zip disks and try copying what you just back up on 1 zip disk back to the computer that should indicate that you have a good copy on zip disk. Regardless of the solutions you should back up personal files because system crashes and hard drive failures do happen. ------------------ I been confused in some ways in the past with this poster as there where different questions about different computers and was at times unclear which computer was being refered to with which problem.. This problem appears to be with 1 computer. I think some of the problems are associated with the compuserve software and it interaction with the system or conflicts with the rest the system. I will send an email to her to keep checking this post for solutions to this... I open this up for discussion...