Re: [NTLK] bad backups resolved!?!

From: Laurent Daudelin (nemesys_at_cox.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 01:47:59 EST


on 22/01/02 01:35, Scotty Technoir at ticknor_at_punkass.com wrote:

> hey gang,
> thanks to Laurent's suggestion, i managed a somewhat successful backup of
> the MP2K using slowdown.exe. i sure had to turn it all the way down, though.
> i also reduced the COM speed to 19,200. it backed up the internal store
> before the PC dropped the connexion. that's ok, i just did a selective
> backup next, and backed up only the memory card this time. i guess that is
> as good as i can hope!

If you had success while running SlowDown and think that you couldn't get it
to slow down your computer as much as you wanted, I think I've read from
someone that they were able to run *multiple* instances of SlowDown
simultaneously, for greater slowliness!

-Laurent.

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