Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 00:00:07 04/28/01
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On April 28, 2001 at 02:24:37, Pete Galati wrote: >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. Never happened to me BUT I bought UPS backup long time ago to keep flow of electricity stable and even, to prevent brownouts AND their guarantee to pay for computer if struck by lightning PLUS peace of mind, worth it to me for $90 or so > >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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