I’m so tempted to buy one of the barebones kits they have on Scan’s Today Only at the minute. So sorely tempted.

I want a spare machine that’s fairly up to date, and is reliable, unlike the one (George) which is currently in bits on the floor in my room.

If I do it, it’ll be some time today.

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The fans keep going. Zippy isn’t my machine, so I’m not entirely bothered. but it’s a proven fact that air circulation prevents stuff like this happening. Except Zippy doesn’t *have* air circulation. I’m amazed it’s survived as long as it has to be honest.

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Woo! Norton Ghost has arrived, to a flurry of excitement. Or rather to a flurry of “What the hell have I paid £5 shipping for? A crushed box, wrapped up in paper?”

Either way, it plopped flatly onto my doormat this morning, I rushed to install it and… WHY OH WHY DOES IT NOT WORK?

Well, I say it doesn’t work. It’s backed up Beastbits’ C drive to another hard drive, but that really is all it’s done. I bought it so it can back up to DVD, but no luck yet….

I’ll let you know how I get on. Bet you can’t wait.

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Doesn’t look like the Maxtor drive I’ve been using for backups wants to format any more. Not a good sign. But, I’ve just noticed, it’s only 120Gb and not 160Gb as I enthusiastically posted. So, there’s another reason to scrap it entirely.

going to try and get it to format using the diving “SysRecCD”, but I’m not holding out much hope. Oh well.

And, seeing as I forgot to mention it before, just got my first piece of comment spam! Hurrah! I feel so… loved! St0cks for your profile, indeed. Nobody ever reads this, and I’m damn sure they’re going to follow anything from here.

Just checked the old backup of Beastbits. It was completely, and utterly, 100% invalid.

For whatever reason, the last backup had gone completely tits up, to the point where Windows could see the backup drive, it could see there was 24Gb left on it. But could it see the 100Gb of data on there? Of course it couldn’t, orther wise I wouldn’t have started off with “Oh my god.” A scandisk of the drive belched up system errors, and even after they were corrected, Windows could still see nothing.

So, *gulp*. I’m formatting the drive, and going to do one last backup of it. A backup which I will no longer trust with any type of certainty at all.

Instead, I’m going to buy a proper external HDD and some type of backup software.