kees@ee.ualberta.ca (Kees denHartigh) (03/20/91)
I have heard through the grapevine that hyperdisk is a good piece of software however I am concerned with the warning generated by the install program. It says WARNING! make sure you have a complete backup of your system before installing! or some such thing. Now I am all for backups but I do get a little concerned when a message like this appears as it would require a great investment in time to restore the entire system if something goes wrong. Has anyone out thare installed hyperdisk? Did the install function as expected? Has anyone had trouble with the installation and actually had to restore thier hard drive? Inquiring minds want to know! -- Kees denHartigh kees@ee.ualberta.ca Electrical Engineering Digital Labs alberta!bode!kees University of Alberta 238 Civil Elect Voice (403)492-5421 Edmonton, Alberta Canada Fax (403)492-1811
tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (03/20/91)
In article <1991Mar19.162947.29833@ee.ualberta.ca> kees@ee.ualberta.ca (Kees denHartigh) writes: >I have heard through the grapevine that hyperdisk is a good piece of >software however I am concerned with the warning generated by the >install program. It says WARNING! make sure you have a complete backup >of your system before installing! >or some such thing. Now I am all for backups but I do get a little >concerned when a message like this appears as it would require a great >investment in time to restore the entire system if something goes wrong. >Has anyone out thare installed hyperdisk? Did the install function >as expected? Has anyone had trouble with the installation and actually >had to restore thier hard drive? Inquiring minds want to know! This has nothing to do with discussion of source programs posted to Usenet. Hyperdisk is a shareware binary for IBM PC Windows systems. Any time you install a utility whose job is to mess with the low level functioning of your disk, it's common sense to do a backup first. Followups directed to comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc although alt.nervous-nellies was my first choice... :-)
moeller@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Henning Moeller [Informatik]) (03/21/91)
kees@ee.ualberta.ca (Kees denHartigh) writes: >I have heard through the grapevine that hyperdisk is a good piece of >software [...] That's absolutely right! >however I am concerned with the warning generated by the >install program. It says WARNING! make sure you have a complete backup >of your system before installing! No problem with installing it. But be sure to stop all OTHER disk caching software before running HyperDisk. The installation procedure does nothing but copy the disk contents to HD and insert the apropriate lines to CONFIG.SYS. You have do delete lines setting up other caching software by hand. Bye, Henning Moeller. -- /----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Henning Moeller, Am Kolk 6, D-4920 Lemgo, ++49-5261-4924 | | Internet: moeller@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de | | FidoNet : 2:245/23.15 |