[Duo2400] Mysterious hard drive problem SOLVED

Mike Hayes tasslehawf at mac.com
Tue Sep 9 13:21:32 PDT 2003


I have an external SCSI CD-R 2x (6x read) I would be willing to sell 
for almost nothing.

Mike

On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 02:46  PM, Peter Goertzen wrote:

> Hello all, and Edgar in particular,
>
> It turns out that you were on the right track about
> Norton creating invisible files. A friend suggested
> that I search for files over a certain size, and sure
> enough, a 278 MB file showed up! It had been created
> by System Info, and when that program froze, it didn't
> get a chance to delete the file. I promptly trashed
> it, and everything's back to normal again. Thank you
> for your help!
>
> Despite the happy ending, this latest adventure with
> my hard drive got me thinking about backing up my
> files. I currently have only a few floppies with my
> documents and a couple of hard-to-replace applications
> backed up on them. What's my best option for archiving
> with my 2300c? External hard drive? Zip drive? Is
> there a CD burner available for my machine?
>
> Peter
>
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