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On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:42:30 GMT, wrote:

On a side note, it's my experience that there are not many folks out
there who really know how to maintain electronic records without
corruption and loss for more than a few years.

It just occured to me that I used to do a nifty thing to protect my
most valuable data from single byte corruption as can be caused by
oxidized memory DIM contacts etc. I would burn the data to a RAW
CDROM image file which includes error correction and just save it to
my hard drive. Once I did that I could open up the CD image in a hex
editor and pepper it full of crap, but then when I would mount it the
error correction would keep it perfectly readable! Pretty cool.

Well, that doesn't help if the data on the disk itself gets corrupted.
Then you get the all-too-familiar A: drive "Abort, Retry, Fail ?" error
message and you're still SOL.

Stepan