Backup question and Video Question

Lex_Diamonds

I want to back up my HD and was thinkin of using a portable HD to do so. Are these available in USB? Can anyone recommend anything better?

Also, when I attempt to run something that uses DIrect x, such as media player or games my system crashes occasionally with a "ddhelp.exe" error. I then have to reboot the sys to get it working again. Any idea why this happens?

SPECS
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win98se
geforce 2 (6.50 official dets)
DirectX 8a
Intel P3 & i815 mobo
Creative 64v Audio

WhiteWashMan

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Lex_Diamonds:
I want to back up my HD and was thinkin of using a portable HD to do so. Are these available in USB? Can anyone recommend anything better?

Also, when I attempt to run something that uses DIrect x, such as media player or games my system crashes occasionally with a "ddhelp.exe" error. I then have to reboot the sys to get it working again. Any idea why this happens?

SPECS
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win98se
geforce 2 (6.50 official dets)
DirectX 8a
Intel P3 & i815 mobo
Creative 64v Audio</font>

download media player 7, or is 8 out now.
sounds like a help file problem. just reistall and it should be ok. you can get usb portable hard drives but i think they are very expensive. someone here im sure knows more about them. id just go for a normal hard drive. its not too hard to whip it in, copy stuff over and whip it out again.
its either that or get an external jazz drive or something

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WhiteWashMan

woops, didnt read that bit right. try reinstalling directx 8

Gunn4r

Burners are cheap, I use a burner and Drive Image Pro, works great! Needless to say burners are handy in general too.

Lex_Diamonds

Thanks for the replies. I have tried re-installing DX8 but to no avail. Anyway, I was thinking about getting a burner alright, however I dont want to suffer from buffer underrun probs and end up with a coaster :-0

Kegser

If you install it right, and keep your speed reasonable you shouldn't get many underruns. A decent quality burner helps also.

Anyway, the price of blank CDs these days means a few coasters are acceptable.

Kegser

Oh, one more thing; SCSI burners 0wn j00. Mine NEVER EVER NEVER gets errors. NEVER.