Re: Win7 Compatibilty Mode

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, November 17, 2013 8:34:09 PM UTC-5, ABLE1 wrote:
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> Jim,
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> My approach has been a little different.  I have one old machine that is=
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> dedicated to do Downloads.  It is a WIN98SE machine.  This is the one tha=
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> currently am having issues.  I need to do something before I lose it all.=
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> had two drives installed and both are identical.  I use a program called=
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> (Allway Sync) that transfers new data on C:/ to D:/ when some thing chang=
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> I can manually do it as well.  If C:/ crashes (as it just did) I then swi=
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> the jumpers from Master to Slave and Slave to Master and reboot and I am=
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> back in business.  Then I have a program call (Acronis) that will make a=
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> back up of the full drive and write it to another drive making a clone.  =
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> have the machine networked on my LAN and I can easily transfer data files=
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> from my XP netbook to the DL machine to keep all up to date.  That has=20
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> worked rather well until lately when the C:/ crashed and after switching=
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> found that the other drive has bad sectors and some other issues.  They h=
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> been running for about running for maybe 10 + years or more.  Which bring=
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> me to find other solutions.
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> Although I may end up continuing my original plan since I just ordered a=
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> couple of NEW IDE drives.  Found them on eBay for $10 each.  If I can kee=
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> the system running for $20 that sure beats getting a WIN7 machine and=20
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> experimenting with Compatibility Mode for hours and hours at no solution.
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> Then again I can get a used WIN7 machine as well for about $150 to play w=
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> at my leisure, if I can find any....... leisure that is.  :-)
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> Les

Just a thought to possibly avoid this in the future ..... there are a bunch=
 of freeware programs out there that automatically check your hard drive an=
d will let you know when it's time to get a new one ...... well before you =
actually can lose data or it crashes.=20