Re: looks like I've been hijacked

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Andy Turnbull wrote:
> I use a usb key for backup. Is that not good enough?
> my biggest one is 8 gigs.
> > And for Pete's sake, get a second hard drive (they're dirt cheap)
> > or, if it's a laptop of a SFF box with no room, get a partition
> > tool and create a data drive.
Well, my data drive has 10 G of data on it. Not all of that gets
changed regularly, so one could probably back up to an 8 G one.
But my comment on making or getting a data drive was meant to say
that one should NOT keep one's data (the files --pictures, music,
docs, spreadsheets, databases, etc.) one creates on the same
drive as your opsys and apps. Yes, BBG and most apps WANT you to
do that, but you can force them to let them go where YOU want. (I
have never been able to get apps, except DOS ones and portable
apps, to go elsewhere than c:\program files; Robert has, but then
he's the geek of geeks).
And an image of C: requires 2 DVDs: 23.6 G (actually, there are
some unused apps that I should remove. And it probably needs
defragging. Though separating data from apps and opsys does make
defragging less frequent.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx