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BC> @MSGID: 1:132/180.1 bbf053d1
BC> On (04 Jan 97) Rick Collins wrote to John Kismul...
rc> You might argue that it's easier to FORMAT. Well, you'll be
rc> wrong, and I'll save you the trouble by telling you why: if you
rc> FORMAT, then the _first_ thing you have to do is re-install your
rc> OS. Then, you may have to re-install and configure your backup
rc> software. After you do that, you can do your restore from
rc> backup. Now, if you didn't FORMAT, all you'd have to do is the
rc> last step - the restore. 
bc> While I whole heartedly agree with your point about not bothering
bc> to format you are making way too much of a project out of your
bc> restore description. Decent backup software should be able to
bc> operate from a bootable floppy and restore everything, including
bc> the OS, with one command per partition. 
Possibly.  You can even do this with MSBACKUP if you just happen to
have made a floppy-based copy of the program and the necessary files,
and know what you're doing. :-)
TTFN. Rick.
Ottawa, ON 8 Jan 20:45 
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