Re: "Bombs away"

In message <RDa2f.148021$dP1.505639@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@xxxxxxxxx> writes
M. J. Powell wrote:
In message <1128863335.298203.221940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, The Other Fran <fran_beta@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes


M. J. Powell wrote:

In message <1128808660.755609.83260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, The
Other Fran <fran_beta@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>
>M. J. Powell wrote:
>> In message <182fk1lual99e5e3sk8usu5rprcn1ob1b1@xxxxxxx>, Charles
Riggs
>> <chriggs@?.net.invalid> writes
>> >On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:22:46 +0100, "M. J. Powell"
>> ><mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >>In message <di4avs02eb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, R H Draney
>> >><dadoctah@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>> >>>M. J. Powell filted:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>Colloquially you could say it when you start a procedure >> >>>>
can't be
>> >>>>stopped once set in motion. It must run to the end.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>Pity I can't think of one just now.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>PS. Starting a washing machine?
>> >>>
>> >>>Defragmenting a hard drive?...r
>> >>
>> >>Damn! That's why it crashed.
>> >
>> >I dunno. I've seen defragmenting stopped in midstream, due to a
>> >scheduled operation starting, with no harm done except for my
>> >annoyance over forgetting to disable that operation before starting.
>> >To avoid this sort of thing, a technical columnist for the New York
>> >Times recently recommended that users defragment their hard disk in
>> >Safe Mode. I've never tried doing it that way so I don't know >> >
it's
>> >good advice or not.
>>
>> Worth trying. I lost about 6 years of records when the machine >>
to be
>> reformatted.
>>
>
>
>Why not "ghost" your drive and save the image on some other media --
>eg a DVD, other magnetic drive ...

Well beyond my abilities, I'm afraid.

Mike 


Symantec's Ghost (and another company's program "drive image" IIRC) are
both totally GUI-based sequential interfaces these days. It shouldn't
be *that* hard.

  Er..What is GUI?

Graphic User Interface. 

Thank you.

Mike
--
M.J.Powell
.

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