[Duo2400] Mysterious hard drive problem SOLVED

[Edgar Peinelt]

Peter,
I am pleased to hear that your problem has disappeared. As to backup
solutions - you will certainly need to buy some sort of dock (DuoDock,
MiniDock, SCSI MicroDock). External HD cartridge drives are a very
convenient solution, especially because of their speed which makes possible
the creation of a bootable disk (with eg. Norton on it) for repair and
rescue purposes. Since Syquest went down the drain there is only Iomega in
the market now for such devices - reasonably priced 1Gig Jaz drives (I would
not recommend the slow and rather unreliable ZIPs) are abundant on ebay..
But Jaz-cartridges are expensive and do not last all too long. The cheapest
solution would be a DAT-drive (also abundant on ebay).  With a software such
as Optima DeskTape you can mount and handle a DAT-drive just like a HD.

HTH
Edgar



> 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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