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I believe NTFS is natively supported by, at least, DI 7, possibly in DI 6. DI 5, though, was absolutely the best version they ever made! After DI 5, the software started going downhill. DI 6 was still marginally usable; DI 5 could amazingly read DI 6's images! So, I mixed and matched DI 6 and 5, keeping the DOS parts from 5 with the Windows capable version of 6. 6 could read images, save the active OS partition, within Windows, so, temporary backups of other partitions were easier to make. I'm an old at the prog, going back to 1.01, I think. As far as I know I was the first person to come up with the idea of imaging the factory partition before booting into Windows, thus, having a virgin partition to restore, without having to run the factory restore discs. Back then, they were just mostly fancy PKZIP set ups. From that, I developed the idea of imaging Windows after setting up common options and applications. I believe I started doing that in 1997. I'll freely admit, though, 20 images a day... Can't get anywhere near that. I've done that many RESTORES before. Over the weekend was doing a lot of them trying to track down a culprit app. But, as a software designer, one would want to take images whenever they are testing a new build, etc. because you never know.

I found Corny! He's seen here with several of his kind celebrating their integration into Earthen society: http://www.deviantart.com/view/29600763/

Supposedly, Miami Vice was pitched to NBC as just two words: "MTV cops." I was around when the show was new, but, I never got into it. Relatively mindless, to me. All flash, no substance, which was what they were going for.

Had another marvelous revelation on how to stop Islamo-terrorists! Okay, follow the reasoning here. The suicide bombers are basically willing to do what they're told because they have been duped into believing that if they do what someone else wants them to do for them, God will give them 72 perpetual virgins. Well, why no proactively take on the situation? I believe there's something like $25 million reward for Osama Bin Laden. Why not use that $25 million and make sure every person already HAS 72 virgins? While they won't re-pertetuate as in the silly dream they're fed, still, you'll have a harem of 72 women. IN your life time! No need to die for something you MIGHT get when you have the guaranteed sure thing of 72 's Whaddya think?

All of my partitions are FAT32 except for one partition for Windows files, work files, temporary files, etc. I keep my partitions as FAT32 so I can access them in DOS to fix any errors that cannot be fixed in Windows. NTFS is a good idea, but, it only works well IF nothing goes wrong. If something does, fixing it is too problematic, and, this IS Microsoft we're talking about here. Problems are par.

Well, at least you didn't ask. I met one of the voices of Dick Dastardly. When he was briefly known as the Dread Baron for Laff-A-Lympics, Paul Winchell, the voice of Dastardly, apparently wasn't available, so, Hans Conreid took over. But, it seems, that Hans Conreid sometimes wasn't available, and his substitute was John Stephenson, probably best known as Mr. Slate from The Flintstones. I met Stephenson at a Transformers convention in 2001. British writer, Simon Furman, was there that year, too.

WOW! Are you ever bringing back memories. I have every episode of the Honeymooners, including the "Lost Episodes" Including The Love Letter, the lost episode that wasn't recovered until 2004 and reran for the first time in 40 years on TV Land?

When I tested the image Ghost made, it wouldn't restore. I forget the reason why. After such a vital tool failed to do its main function correctly, I never tested it any further until versions 8 and 9. But, they were built off of Drive Image 7, which was a really awful version of a product that had been spectacular. e.g. Symantec touched it and it started withering on the vine. I was using DI up until version 7, then switched to something else, ultimating preferring TrueImage, because of how slow Powerquest programs were when detecting the USB drives. On a magnitude of minutes. Plus, Version 6 and earlier didn't image Windows within Windows.

Most here are probably too young to have seen reruns of The Steve Allen Show. I only saw them back when Comedy Central was HA! But, Knotts was fantastic as this man on the street who was in a state on perpetual nervousness. "Excuse me, sir... are you nervous?" "WHO?! Me? N- no..."

I'll tell. It's Muttley! Of Dick Dastardly And His Flying Machines fame. Voiced by Don Messick.

What hurts the most though is I've been FORCED to put a lot more effort into my backups. For instance, discovered out of the clear blue, something deleted all the entries in my Scheduled Tasks. Had to go back to Thursday's backup, the last one that contained any entries for C:\WINDOWS\Tasks. The image burner need not necessarily fit on a floppy, just work in DOS. Plus, if it can read images in DOS, too, so much the better.

I don't like Ghost. Never had a successful restore with it and now that Symantec owns it, forget it! I've used Acronis, but, what I've done is merge the True Image files with the rescue CD it creates to make bootable discs, thus reducing the need for only 1 drive. So, the boot information and rescue tools are stored in the images and the images are stored on the external HD as a last resort parachute. I am thinking in worse case scenario here. Basically, my backup schedule is 1 for everyday, stored locally online, then 1 for every week for 4 weeks, stored locally online, then 1 for every month stored both locally online and stored on disc, and 1 for the year, also stored locally online and offline on disc. Plus, partitions of the factory virgin install as well as partition copies of a configured Windows with common applications installed and already configured. The monthly discs get recycled after a year, and, I keep a copy of the current year and the previous year discs. After 2 years, the oldest yearly disc goes into storage.

Take a look at the first post on the top of this page.

I got to thinking of a theoretical scenario where I might not be able to restore my system after a catastrophic failure coupled with failure of the restore media. For instance, I keep some last resort before full reinstall from the bottom up of Windows standard CD images on an external hard drive of the monthly image backups I schedule for my system. These images are also burned to rewritable discs each month as a form of backup. But, I was thinking what if, someday, I find I can't restore my system the normal way because even the rewritable CD's were too damaged. The only way to around this is to restore from the factory default restore CD's, install a burner app, burn the discs in Windows, boot out, and restore the newly burned discs. Doubles the time needed for a system restore in the worst case scenario, where time is important. But, with a DOS based burner, I could put it on a bootable CD or on the partition on the external HD and boot from a bootable floppy. Would reduce downtime by half.

I still want to use ImgBurn and will but, I was wondering. Is there a DOS based image file creator and burner for CD disc images?

Title says it all. Ralphie's dad from A Christmas Story, Darren McGavin, who was also cult favorite Kolchak The Night Stalker, died on February 25th. He had been ill for a while after a heart attack or stroke a year or two back.

Sounds like one you'd get in your Inbox from a penis enlargment spammer.

YES! I wondered about that, too!

A leeter? Doesn't that weigh one kilogram?

I think I know what he removed. A full and legally binding confession that he pulled off that multi-million Pound robbery in the UK recently, didn't ya?

Could it be that whatever the link is is a file type you have assigned to ImgBurn? Such as ISO or IMG?

It was on the local news tonight. A local man was burning trash in his lawn. From there, the story gets strange. The news just listed it as the man at some point "lost consciousness and fell into the flames, setting himself ablaze." As strange and even hilarious as this story is, it, unfortunately, ended with the man dying of his burns. As tragic as it is, still, though, I can't help but think this guy deserves a Darwin Award nomination. http://www.wtvw.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=1862 Spottsville man dies from his injuries by Kelly Quinn Fox 7 has learned that a Spottsville, Kentucky man burned in a fire has died. David Miles was life-flighted to the University of Louisville hospital burn unit Friday. Witnesses say he was burning trash in his backyard when he apparently lost consciousness and fell into the fire - leaving burns over 90% of his body. The blaze burned out of control and caught a building on fire. It took Spottsville fire crews over an hour to contain the blaze. Miles has succumbed to his injuries. Notice "Spottsville man dies from his injuries by Kelly Quinn" Now, of course, the meant the story itself is by Kelly Quinn, local news co-anchor. But, the way it appears, it's like they're saying Kelly Quinn CAUSED the man's injuries.

Yeah, it may be hard to believe, but Victor Willis, the first cop of the Village People, is a violent, dangerous, wanted fugitive, profiled tonight on America's Most Wanted! Anyway, Willis has been in and out of jail since the early 1980's after his career as a solo artist went nowhere. He has a cocaine habit and has stolen for it in the past. In fact, during his interviews for E!'s True Hollywood Story of the Village People, he was interviewed from jail. This time, he failed to show up for a hearing about his most recent drug and unlicensed weapon possession busts. Yes, this dangerously violent and unstable man MUST be caught in the name of national security. He is a master of disguise, able to seemlessly blend in with sailors and police officers. A criminal mastermind of the highest order, he frequents YMCA's as his fronts. He was in the Navy. He was last seen near Fire Island and Sodom and Gammorah. He has been linked to a known Manhattan woman. He fancies himself to be a macho man. Please, if YOU'VE seen this crackpot, do not hesitate to call your local FBI or CIA branch. If they can't get Osama Bin Laden, maybe snagging Victor Willis will be a feather in their cap to distract you away from this oversight. "Hi, uh, that Village People cop guy! I've seen him! I know where he is! I saw him on TV the other night! He was disguised as a cop! He's hiding out at a YMCA!" http://www.amw.com/Fugitives/brief.cfm?id=35412 What do you know? Listed as last updated on my birthday!

Yeah, I killed Don Knotts! Just 2 days ago, I had brought him in up in an e-mail topic on Scooby Doo, because of his two appearances on The All New Scooby Doo Movies. So, naturally, he had to die because I brought him up.

Cheeky!