Author: Pete Galati
Date: 23:24:37 04/27/01
I guess it was a week ago, I'm not sure by now, I had a brownout, and it destroyed my harddrive. I wasn't able to partition it, delete the partition, format it, nothing, but I had some debugging script to delete the partition, and well, that it did, but the clusters were all messed up. So I had to go buy a new harddrive, and to prevent brownouts from destroying another harddrive, I also bought a UPS battery backup. It's quite a shock to have several months of computer time and files just vanish when I don't have a backup system. I should have had a backup system, I know that, but with a UPS system, the harddrive wouldn't have had a problem... So, you may or may not save yourself a harddive and a lot of lost work if you get a UPS. I was told by a tech friend after this happened that one company lost 2 harddives in one week from brownouts, but it was the first time it happened to me. So, I got rid of that crappy WindowsME and installed Windows98 on the new harddrive. Giant improvement!! When ME would start, it would be at 89% system resources, but 98 is at 95% at startup. I expect that to make a big difference to Chess programs and everything else. Pete
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