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Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:45:59 -0800
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: AMD x2 questions

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--- Ray Davison wrote:

> The backup drive size is the same size as the
> working drive. In the
> case of my desktops the backup drive becomes the
> working drive. Drives
> are cheap, unless of course you think IDE is not
> good enough.

IDE HDDs seem to be considered obsolete. Recent
motherboards (recent being for about the last 2 years)
seem to all have gone SATA.

> > Besides that, you run into a single file limit
> of
> > around 4G -- either on FAT-32 or NTFS, I don't
> recall
> > which at the moment. I'd rather not have to split
> and
> > re-integrate backups.
>
> What do drive copies have to do with file size. You
> don't create or
> even copy files; just bits.

Apples & oranges, Ray. I can't presently clone the
Thinkpad HDD, though I'm going to have the pieces in
place to make this doable -- soon, I hope. But I for
sure wanted to have a good image of it *before* I
messed with it, and will make new ones now that I've
reconfigured the space taken up by W2K and added an
eCS install.

I *do* clone whole HDDs for the desktop machines, and
this is not as quick as you suggest. It takes me 30 -
40 minutes to clone a 120G. drive, and then I do a
Verify comparison, which takes close to the same
amount of time.

Jordan

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