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168816 2003-08-21 02:18:00 Despite what the DSE ad says about DMA66, the leaflet inside says DMA100. The ad goes back to when DMA66 was the in thing, and before DMA100

The only difference between the older caddies pre DMA66/100 and the new ones is the short length of 80 wire connecting cable inside.

The older ones will also run at DMA100 as the length of cable is so short, that there probably isnt that much coupling between wires to cause cross talk/data corruption.
Terry Porritt (14)
168817 2003-08-21 03:22:00 Posted by: kiwibeat Posts: 745 / From: WGTN / Registered: Jun, 2002
cheaper to do a compressed image of your C: drive onto another partition or CDR etc then you can experiment all you like takes 10 mins to reinstall O/S as it was .

Kiwibeat, Could you please give me some more info on making a partition to do this. Can you make a partition on an existing hard drive without having to go into bios and all that stuff which is way over my 79 year old head ?
Any help much appreciated. Heaton
heaton (3697)
168818 2003-08-21 03:46:00 you can by using Partition Magic as long as your HDD is large enough and has empty space to split up and contain image of your C: drive
I havent tried it with XP yet still on 98SE O/S using Drive Image 2002 to do a compresssed backup image
was very easy a 10 min restore even if my entire C
: is formatted
kiwibeat (304)
168819 2003-08-21 08:05:00 Hi If you have a removable HD do you need 2 OS's-- one on each HD? nalla (1386)
168820 2003-08-21 08:18:00 Not if you have a hard drive that stays in the machine permanently . You would only need an OS on each if the computer had no fixed hard drive .

Usually the removable one would contain (backup) data only and the fixed hard drive would have the OS and programs on it .
Susan B (19)
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