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| Thread ID: 62972 | 2005-10-25 07:13:00 | RWCDs again and backing up | Thomas01 (317) | Press F1 |
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| 399125 | 2005-10-31 01:01:00 | yes half my latest novel fits on half a floppy considering how unreliable floppies are, they often simply decide not to work again, I'd SERIOUSLY suggest you give up the humble floppy and switch to cd.......you'll surely be upset if your work saved to floppy was unusable ? |
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| 399126 | 2005-10-31 04:22:00 | So Thomas, apart from debating the pros and cons of floppies and CD-RW's, have you fixed your problem that you first posted about with the error messages and system crashes? Bit of feedback helps and maybe of benefit to others who have a similar problem and search the archives for an answer. :) | Jen (38) | ||
| 399127 | 2005-10-31 04:57:00 | Yes Thomas, I too can remember the days of backing up to 20-22 flopies at the end of the working week - Friday evening when I should have been down the road in the bar. And I remember the times when, at about floppy 17 or 18 the system would complain that it was unable to write to that particular floppy and I had to start again. Hated it. An old Unix/Informix system. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 399128 | 2005-10-31 06:37:00 | Floppies? The demand is very low these days, so the quality has descended to meet the demand. Its not uncommon to have 1 or 2 disks fail straight out of a box of 10. If it was important data, I would not consider it backed up unless it was on at least 3 floppy disks. As they age the oxide parts company with the disk and causes failure as well, so "older is not better". I have witnessed many tears from those that have lost precious documents because they considered they were reliable. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 399129 | 2005-10-31 08:18:00 | Hey you guys are confusing 3.5 discs with 5.25's. The 5.25's were really reliable. | MACIAN (6176) | ||
| 399130 | 2005-10-31 20:05:00 | Jen Yes I did uninstall INCD then found I had no means of formating CDs. I will try it again as I do seem to be learning more about this particular problem thanks to all the contributors (even if we did get a bit off subject when into floppies etc). Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 399131 | 2005-11-02 01:43:00 | Jen Yes I have again removed INCD. I also reinstalled it - whacko. The offending notice has gone but goodness knows what my next problem will be. I also took the somewhat risky step of manually removing the serial line from the Registry - Yeh I guess interfering in areas I don't really know much about is somewhat risky. But assumed that having a new RESTORE point could save me. Tom |
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