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From: Michael_Krause.ROCH@Xerox.COM
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Subject: Re: Hard disk problems
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Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 12:00:27 EDT
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If you decide to reformat your HD as a possible solution to your problem
or to try low-level formating with different parameters (seek/settle
times, etc.) I highly recomend using FASTBACK to do your back-up.  If
you've never heard of it, it is probably the best thing that's happened
to hard drives since the invention of hard drives.  It will COMPLETELY
back-up a full 10Meg'r in about 20 minutes!... to previously unformatted
diskettes!... and require even less time to back up the entire HD the
second time around provided the original diskettes are use the second
time.  FASTBACK weighs in at a heafty $180 or so and puts around 450 K
on each back-up diskette.  The only part about FASTBACK that I don't
really care for is the fact that the backed-up files need to be
un-backed up (with FASTBACK) to be used; they aren't directly usable on
the back-up diskettes.  In fact, the diskettes aren't even readable (the
directory area has been overwritten with data to make best use of the
space).  If you use a hard disk you can't go wrong getting this AMAZING
product.  

mak