Hello, I suggest to use Norton System Works and especially a programme
called Norton Ghost. It saves an image of your hard drive on Cds or on other
partitions. So in case of a major crash you can format the hard disc and
bring it back in full settings in one hour.
Hope it will never happen again.
Stylianos Georgakis
----- Original Message -----
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 12:24 AM
Subject: [OM] Major Computer Crash
> I've just spent the last eleven days recovering my computer after a major
> crash wiped out critical portions of the operating system. Not a fun
> deal. It's recovered to basic operation and fortunately no data was lost,
> but it will require some continuing clean-up as I use various
> applications. Some shared executables were lost; major ones have been
> restored but loss of lesser ones will have to be "discovered" and apps are
> being re-installed before I use them (not a fun task). A standard
> operating system backup would have cured some of the problems and
shortened
> recovery, but by all that much.
>
> Back on-line and among the living again . . . after downloading just under
> 2500 emails this afternoon!
>
> No worm or virus . . . first thing I did was a complete machine scan . . .
> but during the massive download of mail I ensnared three with worm
> attachments. If you're not running something to find and trap this stuff,
> you should be . . . and keep its data files updated, too!
>
> -- John
>
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