Re: Win7 Compatibilty Mode

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday, November 18, 2013 9:43:38 PM UTC-5, ABLE1 wrote:
> "Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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 that
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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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> > I can manually do it as well.  If C:/ crashes (as it just did) I then
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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.  I
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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
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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
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> > been running for about running for maybe 10 + years or more.  Which brings
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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 keep
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> > the system running for $20 that sure beats getting a WIN7 machine and
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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
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> > at my leisure, if I can find any....... leisure that is.  :-)
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> > Les
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> Just a thought to possibly avoid this in the future ..... there are a bunch
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> of freeware programs out there that automatically check your hard drive and
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> will let you know when it's time to get a new one ...... well before you
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> A lot of that "freeware" stuff has spyware imbedded.  I think I would trust
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> ScanDisk for better results.
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> Thanks,
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> Les

It's "freeware" but the source is important. I have one that I got from Dell and some of the hard drive manufacturers have them on their websites. I have one of them also  ..... but I forget who's it is right now.