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From: Chip Thomas on 1 Apr 2008 09:40
dos-man wrote:
> Well, my win 98 PC has crashed again. When I boot it just keeps
> endlessly spinning the floppy drive. Tommorrow I have to bring the
> monitor down from the attic and hook it up. Then I have to format the
> C: drive and reinstall everything; all the drivers; all the software.
> Yikes.
>
> My computer does have 2 hard drives in it, but they are different
> models from different companies that hold different capacities. I'm
> thinking it's about time that I bought 2 hard drives that are the
> identical. Then when one goes down I can swap the drives and get back
> to a reasonable starting point.
>
> The question I have is how is this done? Can it be done without
> purchasing special drive-duplication software?
>
> Thanks,
> Dos-Man


You could set up a RAID1 array which automatically mirrors the drives
(but if you have a software problem on one it will also be on the other
drive).

Or you could use the Seagate drive mirroring utility Disk Wizard (free
from Seagate site) and do periodic mirroring manually.
From: Chip Thomas on 1 Apr 2008 09:42
Calab wrote:
> "DaveW" <radiation(a)nuclear.org> wrote in message
> news:0oidnQkCh8ma_GzanZ2dnUVZ_uidnZ2d(a)comcast.com...
> | You either have to buy special backup software, or you can buy a PCI RAID
> | card and set up a RAID 1 array. This results in all data and programs
> being
> | simultaneously being written to both drives, resulting in a mirror image
> on
> | the two drives. Either way, there is no good FREE way to do what you want
> | to do.
>
> A raid array will do a good job of protecting you from hardware failure, but
> do nothing againts virii or poorly written software.
>
>
>

Mirroring will propogate virii and bad software to the back-up drive.

From: Chip Thomas on 1 Apr 2008 09:42
DaveW wrote:
> You either have to buy special backup software, or you can buy a PCI RAID
> card and set up a RAID 1 array. This results in all data and programs being
> simultaneously being written to both drives, resulting in a mirror image on
> the two drives. Either way, there is no good FREE way to do what you want
> to do.
>

Not exactly correct. Disk Wizard from Seagate is free and will mirror
one drive onto another. It will even compensate for different size drives.


From: conjobble on 1 Apr 2008 15:44
On Mar 30, 9:28 pm, dos-man <ChairS...(a)mail.com> wrote:
> Well, my win 98 PC has crashed again. When I boot it just keeps
> endlessly spinning the floppy drive. Tommorrow I have to bring the
> monitor down from the attic and hook it up.  Then I have to format the
> C: drive and reinstall everything; all the drivers; all the software.
> Yikes.
>
> My computer does have 2 hard drives in it, but they are different
> models from different companies that hold different capacities. I'm
> thinking it's about time that I bought 2 hard drives that are the
> identical.  Then when one goes down I can swap the drives and get back
> to a reasonable starting point.
>
> The question I have is how is this done?  Can it be done without
> purchasing special drive-duplication software?
>
> Thanks,
> Dos-Man

Question? What do you use the win98 system for? a server?
You may pos consider updating to xp, virus protection and ghost. A HD
system with ghost and scheduling of backups during slow activity times
will do the job.

From: CBFalconer on 1 Apr 2008 16:57
GT wrote:
> "DaveW" <radiation(a)nuclear.org> wrote:
>
>> You either have to buy special backup software, or you can buy
>> a PCI RAID card and set up a RAID 1 array. This results in all
>> data and programs being simultaneously being written to both
>> drives, resulting in a mirror image on the two drives. Either
>> way, there is no good FREE way to do what you want to do.
>
> What is this post related to? This does not follow up any other
> post and you have not included any text from the original?

I suspect you have a faulty reader that deletes all sigs from your
reading material. DaveW did the basic sin of top-posting, and his
original did quote. However the quote followed his sig, so your
reader deleted it all.

To DaveW:
Please do not top-post. Your answer belongs after (or intermixed
with) the quoted material to which you reply, after snipping all
irrelevant material. See the following links:

<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
<http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>
<http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html>
<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/> (taming google)
<http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/> (newusers)

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