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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: hyperdisk installed anyone?
Message-ID: <73552090@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 91 05:30:47 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.162947.29833@ee.ualberta.ca>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <1991Mar19.162947.29833@ee.ualberta.ca> kees@ee.ualberta.ca (Kees denHartigh) writes:
>I have heard through the grapevine that hyperdisk is a good piece of
>software however I am concerned with the warning generated by the
>install program. It says WARNING! make sure you have a complete backup
>of your system before installing!
>or some such thing. Now I am all for backups but I do get a little
>concerned when a message like this appears as it would require a great
>investment in time to restore the entire system if something goes wrong.
>Has anyone out thare installed hyperdisk? Did the install function
>as expected? Has anyone had trouble with the installation and actually
>had to restore thier hard drive? Inquiring minds want to know!

This has nothing to do with discussion of source programs posted to
Usenet.  Hyperdisk is a shareware binary for IBM PC Windows systems.

Any time you install a utility whose job is to mess with the low level
functioning of your disk, it's common sense to do a backup first.

Followups directed to comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc although alt.nervous-nellies
was my first choice... :-)