Hello Allan,

Friday, December 03, 1999, 8:48:56 AM, you wrote:

AM> Hi all,

AM> First post so be gentle,

AM> Ok, what i would like to do is use an internal disk drive(Maxtor 8.4GB) as a
AM> zip like drive,
AM> this would strickly for archive/backup purposes, so is there a kit that
AM> includes a case,
AM> power supply and software to achive this?.

I think the best implementation would be to purchase a removable drive
kit [one base, fits into 5 1/4" bay in the case and one enclosing for
the ide 3 1/2" drive], install it and put the drive in. Now you can
insert the drive when you want to make a backup and remove it
afterwards. Beware - these cases may not allow "hot-swapping" [i.e.
you must turn off the PC to insert/remove the drive] and Win9x only
scans the drives at the startup, so even if the drive is
"hot-swappable" you'll have to reboot to access the drive.

Use any backup software, Microsoft Backup should do good enough...
came free with DOS 6.2, does with Win9x? I don't know...

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