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Hi Phil
You are unlucky. I wiped my spare HDD last Monday and it had my spare DSS on it.
Firstly the copy process will take you a long long time. I have done it three times. Each of the CD's need to be copied to the root directory of a Hard disk.
I recomend that you get yourself a USB external HDD. If you copy them to a disk that is formatted Fat32 the full 18 disks use about 14 GB, 4000 folders and 1.2Million files. If you use a partition on your normal HDD you will have trouble with some program, especially virus scans. that like to read all the files all the time. This can take 7 or 8 minutes at times.
Its almost impossible to put a virus on the DSS HDD so you can leave it out of scans. but some scanning programs don't let you do this. If you have the DSS on an outboard HDD it can be disconnected when not required.
Once thr DSS is on the hard disk you will find it works great and worth the effort.
Barry
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