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In article <594274682wnr@jongru.demon.co.uk> Jon@jongru.demon.co.uk "Jon" writes:

> 
> Thanks, and it seems very sensible advice. But... I should perhaps have 
> mentioned that my computer is a modern notebook machine with one of those 
> hard drives that has about 47 pins that push into a socket. So I don't think 
> I can manage the technicalities of connecting two HDs simultaneously.
> 
> Whenever I try to use MSBACKUP and restore, I find that it doesn't seem to 
> work, at least for me. It looks for a "catalog" that isn't there and refuses 
> to do anything more. I tried to use it today: it refused even to look at the 
> floppy backups and kept trying to read a nonexistent archive in a nonexistent 
> c:\dos subdirectory.   So I guess I shall have to laboriously copy to 
> floppies or - and this is probably better, though more expensive - buy a 
> cheap tape drive of 40 or 60 mb and copy to and from that.
> 
Have you thought about 'Borrowing' some space on a desktop?
somthing like laplink or fastlynx would copy the contents of your 
laptop onto a desktop (inc. hidden files), then change drives, and 
copy everything back. All you would need to do, is partition the new 
drive, and FORMAT /S before you copy. The only problem that you 
can feesably come across this way, is a corrupt swapfile in windows,
but that takes about 30 seconds to sort out.

I dont know about laplink, but fastlynx is only 15GBP +vat, which seems 
alot cheeper than buying a tape streamer!

Hope this is a better solution.

P.S. If you want a copy of FASTLYNX, Phone me at work (No. bellow)

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