>What's the best procedure for doing a brainwipe? I usually:
>(1) Do a full back up to a card (or two, just to be safe)
>(2) Hard reset
>(3) Restore from card
>
>Am I doing this right? I always wondered if doing a complete restore from a
>card would somehow just "copy" the conditions that existed prior to the wipe
>(including any problems).
>(Who would be overjoyed if he could figure out why NCU constantly crashes
>during backups, forcing him to do all backups to a flash card.)
Backing up and restoring from a memory card is the fastest and safest way to do
it. Check your free internal space before and after a "brainwipe" and you'll
see that you recovered space. I think backing up to a card isn't just a carbon
copy, but copies each soup and program one at a time, kind of like how disk
defragmenters work. I think you're doing a great job. I too can't ever back
up with NCU. That's fine for my internal store as I bought a 4 meg card just
for the purpose of backing up, however, I have never been able to back up my 24
meg memory card. Hope that doesn't fail. I do an internal "brainwipe" every
3-6 months, depending on how much you are reading and writing to the memory. I
receive a lot of email on mine which tends to fragment the memory a lot.
myq
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