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Everyone has pretty well covered it, but the old man takes two days just to go through the hard drives before he even thinks of a re-format. Minutely picking thru each program for possible data files or lists. We've found that if he doesn't, invariably we lose that one file we really need down the road. He also keeps on paper the drives and programs so he can sit and 'study' as he calls it to make sure not to miss something.
We once reformated and lost about 20 autocad drafts that took 40 hours to redo. All because of hurrying. lol Unless you are hard crashed there is no reason to hurry a format. Also using a small drive like a 2 gig to keep the Windows on is great too. You may have to reinstall all your progs over the progs to get them to work when you just swap drives, but it protects all you data. This system has 3 HD's with one being only the Windows drive. All the data is protected from crashes of Gates Folly more or less.
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