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Re-Installed Windows, now a 200gb drive is missing!
SOAPboy:
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--- Quote from: SOAPboy on May 05, 2005, 09:42:00 am ---New, i have it down to a science anyways.. 12 years of doing it monthly, you kinda tend to have a routine >_<
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So how do you know it's your 'time of the month'? Does your PC become irrationally awkward to deal with?
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SirPoonga:
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--- Quote ---Every 30 days.. ^_^
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I certainly have an ability to reformat every freakin' month. You get better every time you wreak it.
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I do it just because i like running a clean system, and i want it to run at 'top' performance all the time..
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Sounds like someone needs Norton Ghost....
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Newp, i have it down to a science anyways.. 12 years of doing it monthly, you kinda tend to have a routine >_<
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But with ghost it will take like 30 minutes and you are done since it is a snapshot of your computer. No installing os, no updating, no installing software. Trust me, once you use it you will wonder why you didn't use it earlier.
rampy:
Yeah I concur with Sirp, if you're that neurotic (or abusive) to your system that you rebuild monthly... make a default "good" image in ghost (or drive imaging software of your choice) and revert/re-build off that each time.
Also I wipe my C: drive from front to back to sweep the bad stuff out of town or is that a different conversation?
rampy
SirPoonga:
And modern versions of ghost allow you to burn to multiple dvd discs. So you don't need an extra hard drive to store the snapshot.
Plus if you want to do something different, like dual boot to linux, you cn have the snapshot install to the minimum size partition, then install linux on the left over space :)
I re-ghost my drive about twice a year.
shmokes:
Soapboy, keep in mind that when Poonga says 30 minutes, he means 30 minutes for EVERYTHING; not just the OS. So you can install a clean XP SP2, Critical Updates, Antivirus, Spyware App, Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office, Firefox, Thunderbird, My Documents, Favorites, iTunes and your Music folder. Then you use Ghost to make an image. Next time you want to wipe your system it takes 30 minutes to do ALL of that, instead of 30-45 minutes for the OS alone and another 2-3 hours for everything else.
That said, Ghost has never worked well for me cos I'm too much of a computer geek. I upgrade hardware in my computer constantly. So by the time six months to a year rolls by and I start thinking my computer is ready for a good scrubbing I've got a new motherboard/processor, or a different videocard and soundcard and optical drives or I've upgraded to new versions of MS Office or Creative Suite. So I have a tendency, even if I have a year-old Ghost image handy, to just spend 3-4 hours formatting and reinstalling Windows and the programs I want from scratch.
But if I had severe OCD, as Soapboy clearly does ;) , and was a once a month guy I would absolutely be using Ghost.
By the way, does anyone know how to save iTunes ratings? Every time I back up our music and so on the songs come, but the ratings don't. My wife about wants to stab me in the throat with a pen every time she goes into her library and realizes she has to go through and rate all the songs again. Where are these things stored?