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From: wnbell@sybil.cs.buffalo.edu (William Bell)
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Subject: Re: EGA for RGB?
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Date: 5 Sep 89 21:39:53 GMT
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 I have Seagates 277R (65.5 MB hard drive), and recently
used OnTracks's utility. The screen says :"It MAY be a good
idea to back up the hard drive before using this program."
I took "MAY" lightly.  It should have said "IF you continue
you will lose everything, including your appetite!!! Exit now
or forever live in sin." Because the program did a low-level
format before I could stop it!!! I lost everything.
Personally I hate OnTrack's software, and my dog ate it for
lunch.  I called Seagate and they said "Did you have it
backed up?" "No" "Nothing we can do for you."
 Heed this warning: Backup your hard drive before using any
new File manipulation program or utility. Also backup
weekly too. I also came across some utilities made for
MS-DOS 3.3 which assumed you were using MS-DOS 3.3 (and never
told you not to use it with 4.01! Since 4.01 came out
after 3.3). These utilities screwed up the FAT on the disk
terribly. Case-in-point: MS-DOS 3.3 can only "See" 
up to 32 MByte of storage at one time due to limitation
on FAT. 4.01 can "see" very-very large MB. Which is why
I chose MS-DOS 4.01 for 277R with 1 65.5 MB partician!!!
Excellent! Then I just use subdirectories. I hope
to but another HD for drive d....