Re: Colorado 5GB tape drive

"Dr. Edward Warren" <e-warren@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:90MTe.20122$qY1.4341@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I need advice about my 2 Colorado 5GB tape drives. I have not used them on
> my current computers with Windows XP and I cannot find a Windows XP driver
> for them. I used to have them back up my entire hard drive automatically
> at
> night, but I suspect that that is no longer possible. Are they in fact
> junk? Is there a better medium to use for backup now? I have a CD/DVD
> burner. Should I change my backup strategy to just back up data and then
> reinstall everything in case of a disaster?
> Thank you,
> Edward Warren

Have you considered a 2nd hard drive? I have all my drives in removable
trays, I can shut down, switch my D drive to one I use for cloning, bootup
with a Ghost 2003 floppy and make a complete bootable clone of 17 GB in less
than 15 minutes.


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