Doug,
I run the same thing on my computer at my office except that I am
running
win95os2. When my hdd took a dump I replaced it, reloaded the
operating system,
all my software including BUexec then I selectively restored, from my
tape
drive, all the necessary data base files needed to get my software
operating as
it was before the disaster. I did have a recovery disk and did recover
my
system from the tape at first but, the programs including the
operating system
were corrupt and did not run properly. One of my employees has a
brother who
teaches at a local college part time and is the MIS expert for a large
nationwide food producer. He manages all their systems throughout the
U.S. He
told me never to recover your operating system or other programs from
a tape,
just your data, tapes don't always copy programs with enough quality
and
problems are more likely to occur. I tend to believe him because of my
own
experience. So, I guess what I'm getting to is that the seagate
recovery disk was not needed to do it the way I ended up doing the
reinstall then recover data thing.
Gregg Pfaff



Doug Simmons wrote:

> This is hardware/software question, but primarily hardware driver.....
>
> I've switched a computer with a Seagate IDE Travan Tape Drive from Win 95
> to Win 98.  As far as I can tell it works great, *but*....
>
> When I try to create an Emergency Recovery Disk from the Seagate Backup
> Exec for Windows 95, there is not enough room on the boot diskette for Win
> 98 and the Seagate drivers.
>
> When I contacted Seagate, they said that I had to upgrade the BU Exec
> software to BU Exec for Win 98 for US$ 60.00. There's gotta be another way
> to do this!!!
>
> The backup applet included with Windows 98 will backup to the tape drive
> fine (It is supplied by Seagate), *but* then when trying to make the
> recovery diskette, it says that this feature is not included with windows
> 98 and I must upgrade to Seagate's BU Exec for Win98 for US$ 60.00 to get
> this feature.
>
> Anyone got a better way for me to make a recovery boot diskette that will
> allow the tape drive to do what it was made to do with out paying a ransom?
>
> TIA
>
> Doug
>
> Doug Simmons
>
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