On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:02:21 -0500, Lawrence Glickman wrote:

I know what gunner can do. He can go to the website of his hd mfgr.
and download hd utilities like the ones that came from the factory
with his hd.

And yet, reformatting the drive, in whatever manner, may _still_ be the
wrong hammer to hit this problem with.

Anyhow, long story short, OS Re-install, and all that rubbish, if he
doesn't have a recent "image."

It depends.

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Now question, Dave, does re-installing an image put down multiple
partitions as well as the data inside those partitions?
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It depends.

Not that we know if he has an image. If he does not, shame shame
shame on somebody.

Eh...I think I've reached my quota of reading infantile insults for a
while.

I keep images on a USB HD that I keep for backup. It is 120 giga
bytes in capacity. Multiple images so I can go back, and get it all,
without having to hunt down program discs and data files. I even back
up data files ( the ones small enough ) to thumb drives. Taking few
chances these days,

Sounds like a cumbersome backup strategy, but as long as it's as good as
you can do, it's better than doing nothing.

I think I got a B+ in marbles and pencil sharpening.

I think I'd need to see documentation before I'd believe that.