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Good Day to all:

I have been really getting an education these past few days on this forum, and I have to pause and say thank you.

Since the CPU is nothing more than an old Pentium computer motherboard and power supply for both CPU and console, I wonder if the following can work. Any help would be appreciated. Is it possible to plug a Hard Drive into the secondary IDE channel as a master, (D:>)and then either copy or mirror everything from the C:> to it, in order to back up the OS and other data files? I say this because with all of the authorization issues / problems, and the fact that most of the solutions noted in the forum seem to be repaired by re-installing the OS, does it make sense to have as a back up, that can be copied back over to the C:> drive if a failure occurs, instead of having to generating bootable floppy diskettes?

I would think we would have seen somebody do this by now if it were possible. I could be wrong though I suppose. It does seem to be an interesting scenario to explore.

RJH_MUSIC wrote:Good Day to all:

I have been really getting an education these past few days on this forum, and I have to pause and say thank you.

Since the CPU is nothing more than an old Pentium computer motherboard and power supply for both CPU and console, I wonder if the following can work. Any help would be appreciated. Is it possible to plug a Hard Drive into the secondary IDE channel as a master, (D:>)and then either copy or mirror everything from the C:> to it, in order to back up the OS and other data files? I say this because with all of the authorization issues / problems, and the fact that most of the solutions noted in the forum seem to be repaired by re-installing the OS, does it make sense to have as a back up, that can be copied back over to the C:> drive if a failure occurs, instead of having to generating bootable floppy diskettes?

Simply image the drive and save the imaged file to your computer, or cd/dvd for that matter. In the event of a failure of the CPU's boot disk, obtain and re-image another one, then install it into the d8b's CPU... batta-bing, batta-boom... problem solved...

Hope this helps...

Peace

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