I saved a couple of old 5 1/2 inch drives, and the floppies that go with
them,
and use them for "secure" backups.
Probably dumb, but I can sleep at night.



"Daniel" <daniel_h_wATyyahooDOTccom> wrote in message
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>> "johns" <johns321@moscow.com> wrote in message
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>> >
>> > This takes talent. You must be in-training to
>> > become a professor. Seems you've backed
>> > yourself into a corner with too much theory
>> > and too little fact. I've been called to this
>> > one about 1000 times now, and it is a challenge.
>> > My advice to begin with is take the bad
>> > disk, and mount it as a SATA 2 in a known
>> > good computer ... not hacked by a professor.
>> > Then open the drive folder and click on TOOLS
>> > ... Folder Options ... View ... and scroll down
>> > to the bottom of the list and uncheck Simple