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How to best use my external hard drive?
My experience with backups is that the backup system that comes with XP is good at backing up my system files. It is under Accessories --> System Tools --> Backup. You can backup just your own personal files, or the entire system. I just backup "My Documents and Settings", but you can select...- pesteege
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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2nd Hard Drive DEAD - Help
My D: drive (Maxtor 80GB) drive failed when I rebooted after a home power failure. Many "file segment" errors when CHKDSK runs on bootup. I could not talk to it with XP Disk Management tool. I used a Linux Recovery CD to erase all partitions on this second drive, and then created a new...- pesteege
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
