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I've had my W2k PC for 4 years and that is exactly how many crashes it has had. None of them requiring anything more serious than a restart. I have lost count of how many forced reinstalls I have had to do with my Mac and all the flavors of OSX.

Each time I have lost yet another lot of files, settings, data.

Just got back up and running after yet another what I call blue screen of death in Panther. I get through all the login only to end up with a blue screen with nothing but a live cursor on it.

"Safe Boot" didn't work, Disk First Aid as always wwas useless, and I had all sorts of hastles trying to reinstall Panther. I finally gave up after working on it over a day, and upgraded to Tiger. I just hope Tiger doesn't go flakey on me because it was not a clean reinstall, just an upgrade on top of what was left of the Panther install.

The big trouble with Apple's, less than perfect, Unix is that if you don't work on the same install that gave you trouble you don't get back your User stuff.

I'd love to have a reliable rescue CD, even DiskWarrior as good as it is, is painfully slow and doesn't do everything I need.