On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:16:25PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm wrote: > >===== Original Message From "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> ===== > >on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:28:45PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >> > - OK, you don't have a backup system. Buy a DAT drive for $400 and a > >> > handful of tapes. Or a CDW or CDRW system. But I'd prefer tape. > >> > >> $400 USD cost more than my computer cost > > > >Completely irrelevant. > > > > I wish I could say that. I'm a student I don't have extra cash.
Me, too. Here is another option: find another computer (perhaps a friend's) with some free space on it and put the drive from the borked system in it. Then boot that machine with a rescue disk. You can mount the borked disk and the disks with extra space, back up the first to the second as described, reinstall, and restore. If you stick $5 a week in a book somewhere, you could have a CD-RW by Christmas. It's worth it, just so you don't have to go through this PITA again. > And I will do just that when I have a computer that dosn't cost less than the > drive. I recently bought a monitor stand for my computer, which is a few years old, to save desk space. Later I had a friend tell me that he had sold his old computer, the same model as mine, for the same price I paid for my monitor stand. I'll not take the thing back, though. If you get a nice DAT drive, you can transfer it to your shiny new machine when you get one. An old computer doesn't have to have all old parts. I hope that helps. If you have trouble finding another machine, offer a six-pack of beer. Rob -- If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.
