Thread 'Formatting Hard Drive and Saving Work'

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old_user131517 Send message Joined: 7 Dec 05 Posts: 1 Credit: 2,699 RAC: 0	Message 19804 - Posted: 31 Jan 2006, 0:20:29 UTC I was about to format my hard drive when I suddenly realised I didn\'t know how to save the progress on the sulphur cycle my PC is currently working on. How do I do this? ID: 19804 · Reply Quote

Les Bayliss Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 5 Sep 04 Posts: 7629 Credit: 24,240,330 RAC: 0	Message 19805 - Posted: 31 Jan 2006, 2:05:54 UTC In the menu under commands, click Suspend; wait until the model says suspended, then exit BOINC. Copy entire BOINC folder to a dvd, or several cds. (If you have a second disk which is NOT going to be formated, you can copy the folder to this.) After the format, copy back the folder, set the files back to RW, and start BOINC. ID: 19805 · Reply Quote