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Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:35:24 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Need recommendation for drive for TP 600X: read DVD and write CD in eCS

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Steve Carter replied to Wayne:

> Personal Aside:
>
> Personally, I would not consider this an excuse to convert
> to XP or whatever.

Win (should be LOSE, or maybe LOUSE) is such a tremendous,
continual source of grief, especially if you attempt to maintain it
with updates for all the security holes. SP-4 did substantial damage
to my whole multiboot setup. Based on available time, I've had to
make the choice to keep the OS/2 partitions functional. So, at the
moment, I have one W2K boot partition that is stone cold dead, and
another (the main one) that was restored from a partition image, and
I am locked out of it, because something in the SAM (security module)
is hosed, and I can't get past the Logon. No hacker-ish Password circum-
venting procedure I've tried to date has worked. It's just not important
enough to keep messing with it right now. If I try the atrocious MS repair
procedures for these partitions, it will kill Boot Mgr. and possibly the
MBR -- for the umpteenth time -- leaving me with nothing bootable
except for DOS, until I fix the latter items again. Wayne, if you want in
on this wonderful Redmund world, you are welcome to it ! I think it
might be a lot more rewarding to install the latest ODIN, and see if I can
get those few Win-based things I use to work under that. It certainly
couldn't be any more frustrating !

> My fastest CD burner is on the windows machine, as is
> Clone CD, which I use to make useable backups of copy-
> protected CDs while the originals sit safely on the shelf.
> For everyday use and while traveling, I prefer to use copies
> in order to safeguard my investment. For example, Ms "Streets and Trips"
> is protected somehow and I use it exclusively in the motorhome.
> There's a perfect application for using a replaceable copy.

Point well taken. I just lost a valuable (in $$ terms, at least) Win app. CD.
Despite trying to be careful, it slipped out of my hands and grazed a drive-
mounting rail on the floor under my desk. This gouged out a nice deep scratch
that has rendered it useless. Luckily, I had made a backup copy.

Incidentally, maybe I've just not encountered the right (wrong ?) CDs, but, as
best I can recall, I've yet to find a CD that I could not copy with the RSJ Copy
Wizard. That includes things like MS Orifice, and music CDs. CLONE CD,
from what I've seen of it, seems to be a pretty good program. But I wonder if
you really need it. (For what: examples ?) Also, according to PC Mag., CLONE
CD was guilty of harboring some sort of spyware.

Jordan

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