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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:49:43 -0500, wrote:
It takes about 2 hours and most of that is waiting. I don't know how you do that. It takes me that long just to get to the right service pack level on the OS, and then I need to reinstall all of my application software and bring it back to the right maintenance level. |
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Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:49:43 -0500, wrote: It takes about 2 hours and most of that is waiting. I don't know how you do that. It takes me that long just to get to the right service pack level on the OS, and then I need to reinstall all of my application software and bring it back to the right maintenance level. It's not as if you had anything to do. |
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:27:30 -0500, HK wrote:
I don't know how you do that. It takes me that long just to get to the right service pack level on the OS, and then I need to reinstall all of my application software and bring it back to the right maintenance level. It's not as if you had anything to do. ============================ And your point is ? |
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Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:27:30 -0500, HK wrote: I don't know how you do that. It takes me that long just to get to the right service pack level on the OS, and then I need to reinstall all of my application software and bring it back to the right maintenance level. It's not as if you had anything to do. ============================ And your point is ? Well, W'hine, if you had something to do, the few hours it takes to rebuild a hard drive from scratch might interfere with some worthwhile activity. But you don't really have any. Get yourself a Windows Home Server from HP. You can back up and restore your entire machine with virtually no operator input, and with the new release, you can even backup your backups to removable hard drives and store them off site. You can do a lot more with the WHS, too, which makes it more interesting than simply using decent backup software to backup your drives and reinstall them with a CD restore disk. But, then, what would you do with the time freed up? Help run a soup kitchen? Distribute clothing to the poor? Pay someone's electric bill? Nah. |
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:24:01 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:49:43 -0500, wrote: It takes about 2 hours and most of that is waiting. I don't know how you do that. It takes me that long just to get to the right service pack level on the OS, and then I need to reinstall all of my application software and bring it back to the right maintenance level. You might look into Ghost or Acronis or whatever. I use Ghost, on a floppy. It's simple to use. If you keep your installed apps on the c partition and image that partition once in a while to another hard drive, you never have re-install again. It would take you 5-10 minutes to restore your OS and apps. That's from dead in the water to up and running where you were. I do OS and most app installs once on a computer. This one is over 2 years old, since I built the box. A new (different) motherboard is the only reason I have to do a reinstall. There's probably a way around that too, but it gets complicated and probably isn't time effective. --Vic |
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Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:24:01 -0500, Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:49:43 -0500, wrote: It takes about 2 hours and most of that is waiting. I don't know how you do that. It takes me that long just to get to the right service pack level on the OS, and then I need to reinstall all of my application software and bring it back to the right maintenance level. You might look into Ghost or Acronis or whatever. I use Ghost, on a floppy. It's simple to use. If you keep your installed apps on the c partition and image that partition once in a while to another hard drive, you never have re-install again. It would take you 5-10 minutes to restore your OS and apps. That's from dead in the water to up and running where you were. I do OS and most app installs once on a computer. This one is over 2 years old, since I built the box. A new (different) motherboard is the only reason I have to do a reinstall. There's probably a way around that too, but it gets complicated and probably isn't time effective. --Vic Acronis works quite well. I have it on the main machine and have a RESCUE CD, which I have tried. It works. |
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![]() wrote in message news ![]() On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:38:04 -0500, HK wrote: Acronis works quite well. I have it on the main machine and have a RESCUE CD, which I have tried. It works. I am getting ready to try that. I vote for Acronis, hasn't failed me yet after a couple of years. |
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![]() "HK" wrote in message ... Get yourself a Windows Home Server from HP. You can back up and restore your entire machine with virtually no operator input, and with the new release, you can even backup your backups to removable hard drives and store them off site. You can do a lot more with the WHS, too, which makes it more interesting than simply using decent backup software to backup your drives and reinstall them with a CD restore disk. Why? I mean, what the heck is so important about a stupid computer to do this stuff? Those of you that rely on a computer to store important information deserve to get crashed ... or whatever. Eisboch |
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Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message ... Get yourself a Windows Home Server from HP. You can back up and restore your entire machine with virtually no operator input, and with the new release, you can even backup your backups to removable hard drives and store them off site. You can do a lot more with the WHS, too, which makes it more interesting than simply using decent backup software to backup your drives and reinstall them with a CD restore disk. Why? I mean, what the heck is so important about a stupid computer to do this stuff? Those of you that rely on a computer to store important information deserve to get crashed ... or whatever. Eisboch With a WHS, you can back up and restore all the computers in your household automatically, you can serve up saved movies stored on the WHS to any computer in your household without clogging up the hard drive on that computer, and you can also use the device as an iTunes server. There are many other features, but those are the ones I use the most. |
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