>I do have a week old backup, so it's not tragic.
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>Placing disk as secondary and then copying as much as possible is a good idea. Wonder if I could connect to the lan from a boot diskette and pass the data?
You could try it. What I was thinking was to take your hard disk out, and connect it to another computer. There are usually some extra cables around. The connection itself is not overwhelmingly difficult, but if you never did it, you may want to ask a friend for help.
There is one parallel cabel, grey, that copies data, and one, with four (?) cables of different colors, for power. Both are "polarized" - they can't be connected the wrong way.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
