[SEL] O.T. Computer Help - Not Down

[ED]

Hello Paul,

I don't  consider my self a computer Guru but the approach to back up that I
take is to save my files on a cd with a read write cd rom drive. The files
are individually accessible. I file what I want to keep in several
directories by subject and copy these directories to a the CD every once in
a while. I try to be fussy about keeping a copy of the various programs and
save there up dates to a file backed up to the CD. I don't use ghost.

Ed Stoller
New Fairfield, CT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Maples" <pmaples at anaxis.net>
To: "Stationary Engine List" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 6:47 PM
Subject: [SEL] O.T. Computer Help - Not Down


> Ok you computer guru's I need your help again. I am not completely stupid,
> almost but not quite there yet. I had enough sense about six months ago
when
> I was having computer trouble before to go out and buy a 60 gig external
> hard drive and using Norton Ghost a friend of mine came over and did a
> complete backup of my hard drive. He said the option he selected was such
> that I cannot just hook up the hard drive to my computer and pick and
choose
> the files I want, I have to completely download everything and this is all
> of the applications. He also said I would have to use Norton Ghost just to
> download the files again.
>
> Is there anyway I can hook up the external hard drive and see all of my
> files and then download just the ones I want or is what he said true, I
can
> only do a complete backup onto my computer of the information that is on
the
> external harddrive. Surely there is a way to see these files and to pull
off
> what I want.
>
> So there it is gang, the challenge for all of the computer guru's, and I
am
> confident that someone can tell me how to do this. By the way I now have
> Norton Internet Security on my computer which does not include
> Ghost.....does this make the challenge harder?
>
> I will appreciate any and all help you folks can give me and just maybe I
> might learn how to use this thing before I buy the farm as we say here in
> the South.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
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