To Musicman... yes, I have horror stories. Too many. I hate 'pooters.

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Bill
Yamaha PSR2000

Providing the file size is less then the size of the DVD, or the Backup program supports backup over multiple discs, then yes you can.
Hope this helps.

Bill

Thanks for all your responses.

Yes, I'm sure we've all had similar experiences.
Talk about an external drive.....
When I picked up my computer from my repair guy, on the way home I stopped at CompUSA and bought an external drive. It's funny...
John_C, who is not with us anymore, told me to do just that about 2 months ago and of course I never got around to it. If I had, well...
I don't think having Ghost Image would have mattered because like I said, my second hard drive was a mirror of my main drive and when my motherboard went it literally destroyed my mirror drive. Unless I'm wrong about that.

Bill...I won't be using my laptop on the internet, just for my gigs, and only one maybe two programs. I'm glad you mentioned backing the laptop on the external drive too. I didn't think of that.

Again, that's for all you caring responses.

Peter

The advice given here about doing backups is right on the money. I am constantly changing out computers in and out of my network and managing files. I finally settled on using a 120 gig external USB drive along with a great backup program called Genie Soft. The Beauty of this program is that you can create self resoring zip files, you Do not need the original backup porgram for restoral. Cd, Dvd, USB drives , tape, hard drives all can be used for backup & resore.

I no longer keep my important backups in just one place, please don't ask me why - just use a little imagination.

Genie-Soft does offer a free trail program if anyone is intersted. There are other good programs out there as well but for ease of use and flexability this is a winner. I think I paid $49.00 for it.
www.Genie-Soft.com

Jerry

I carry an external 2.5" HD with a USB connection as my back up..It duplicates everything I use for Music...over 100 thousand sequences, over 15 thousand styles, over 15 thousand MP3's.
My soft synths Roland DX1, Hyper Canvas, Super Quartet, Orchestral,...NI B4 and M-Audio Key Rig..
Also my main programs Forte, Powertracks, Acid Pro, Soft Concert,WinAmp, VanBasco, Karawin etc..

If my main Laptop goes down, I am back in business with any computer[with USB].



[This message has been edited by Fran Carango (edited 10-17-2005).]

Wow!!! I wish I had read this thread sooner. If you have not written over either of those two harddrives there is a very good chance you can get your data back. A windows format clears out the index to the files. The files themselves should still be there and can be recovered.

There are some software utilities out there that do this.


Here is one software app that recovers a formatted harddrive I found on Cnet after a quick search. There are many others.
http://www.download.com/3000-2094-10373977.html


Good luck and sorry I didn't see this post sooner.

This looks like a great progam although a little expensive at $129.00
Thanks,

Peter

Recovers a formatted harddrive? Undeletes files "after" you have emptied your recycle bin? So everything I've ever done on my computer is still there? I can even format the hard drive and it's all still there? How about if I fill it up again, reformat it, fill it up again, and format it? Will it still have every file from back when I did the first format? This is weird.

Oops, just reread. You cannot recover once you've started re-writing over the drive. Gees, still, all this time I thought delete actually meant delete, and Format surely meant delete.