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Article #1636Re: hyperdisk installed anyone?
From: Tom Neff
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 05:30
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 05:30
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In article <1991Mar19.162947.29833@ee.ualberta.ca> kees@ee.ualberta.ca (Kees denHartigh) writes: >I have heard through the grapevine that hyperdisk is a good piece of >software however I am concerned with the warning generated by the >install program. It says WARNING! make sure you have a complete backup >of your system before installing! >or some such thing. Now I am all for backups but I do get a little >concerned when a message like this appears as it would require a great >investment in time to restore the entire system if something goes wrong. >Has anyone out thare installed hyperdisk? Did the install function >as expected? Has anyone had trouble with the installation and actually >had to restore thier hard drive? Inquiring minds want to know! This has nothing to do with discussion of source programs posted to Usenet. Hyperdisk is a shareware binary for IBM PC Windows systems. Any time you install a utility whose job is to mess with the low level functioning of your disk, it's common sense to do a backup first. Followups directed to comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc although alt.nervous-nellies was my first choice... :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: hyperdisk installed anyone? Message-ID: <73552090@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Date: 20 Mar 91 05:30:47 GMT References: <1991Mar19.162947.29833@ee.ualberta.ca> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Distribution: na Lines: 20