Here, here. Well said that man! The other bonus with a Mac is that there are currently no (that's zero) viruses, trojans or worms that affect them. Some of you PC users may want to re-read that last line. Imagine a world without rogue diallers, blasters, sassas and the like.That place is Mac OS 10! -Alex Gant On 30 Jun 2005, at 23:58, Daniel Shane wrote: > I’ve worked in IT all my life I have had hundreds of HD fail. I’ve > used > Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac and yes the all hardware fails. > > The bonus of the Mac is that when you need to reload you Machine > you don’t > have to spend hours finding drivers etc. A Ghost util comes with > the OS > called Disk Utility and works great. > > Dan > > > On 30/6/05 9:30 pm, "david sandell" <davesandell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> macs still have hard drives though (or is that an idrive??) and i >> dont think >> ghost works with macs. i ghost my system weekly - just in case! >> Dave >> DOC#479 >> (works in pc world in pc clinic!!) >> Daniel Shane <daniel.shane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Stop playing with those PC’s and get a Macintosh ;-) >> >> Dan >> >> >> On 30/6/05 7:08 pm, "david sandell" <davesandell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >>>> i had a simular problem too, only i think mine was fairly >>>> terminal - and >>>> hardware based rather than virus, for a little while i had been >>>> getting >>>> "whrrrrr clonk!" from my main hdd. it finaly died this morning - >>>> just as my >>>> parcel arrived from dabs.com with 2 new 200GB hard drives in it! >>>> good timing - or what! >>>> all back up and running now. >>>> Dave >>>> DOC#479 >>>> >>>> Claire Usher <claire.usher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Hi Kevin, >>>> >>>> My Windows 2000 Pro went a bit haywire yesterday morning, >>>> Outlook was ok >>>> to a certain extent, but it wouldn’t go into Netscape saying >>>> that it had >>>> generated a problem and would be shut down by Windows. We’d been >>>> receiving shedloads of spam emails to Dave’s email account and >>>> the spam >>>> filter was having a field day! >>>> We rebooted it and during the start up screens it basically got >>>> to the >>>> point where it came up with an error message (cant remember exactly >>>> what), so we put in the Win 2k CD rom and it couldn’t repair, so >>>> the >>>> hard drive is well and truly knack’d. My ISP host (also a very good >>>> friend of mine) suspects a virus got in before the virus checker >>>> had had >>>> a chance to update and immunise my pc against it. He’s sorting >>>> me out a >>>> new hard drive (one better then the old 5400rpm 20gb) and is gonna >>>> recover as much as possible from the old drive then send me a >>>> new one >>>> with…..XP installed ­ yes, I’m finally getting XP after >>>> years of saying >>>> I wouldn’t touch it. >>>> >>>> I’ve reinstalled Win2k on my other hard drive and its running ok >>>> so far, >>>> but my new drive will be here in a few days so it’s only temporary. >>>> >>>> Seeya Sunday, >>>> >>>> Claire >>>> #2292 >>>> DOC171 >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On >>>> Behalf >>>> Of Kevin Milliken >>>> Sent: 30 June 2005 16:37 >>>> To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> Subject: RE: [doc] Matching Green this Sunday/Email Problems >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Claire and Stuart >>>> >>>> Did the disks just fail, dead, no-more. or was it a message >>>> "DISK BOOT >>>> FAILURE"? >>>> >>>> Kevin >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>>> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >>>> Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.7/34 - Release Date: >>>> 29/06/2005 >>>> >>>> >> >> >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> >> DOC UK Website: www.deloreans.co.uk >> Unsubscribe: doc-uk-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> ** Unless otherwise stated, all messages posted to the group are >> assumed >> public and may be printed in the club magazine ** >> >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> YAHOO! 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