Why Do You Reinstall Or Reformatt 3-12x A

[clocker]

You don't need a completely separate drive, just a separate partition.

[DWk]

ok lemme rephrase...

*OR* they dont have enough hard drive space for that

lol i have way 2 much downloads for me to have more space :S

DWk

[zapjb]

To guard against instant catastrophic physical HDD failure seperate media is the best protection. I choose redundancy in a seperate HDD.

[kurtsl0an]

Originally posted by zapjb@20 October 2003 - 15:12
To guard against instant catastrophic physical HDD failure seperate media is the best protection. I choose redundancy in a seperate HDD.

i agree w/u 100% that 2 many users just start over. what a waste.

but i only use redundancy on a server - my pc i only backup needed data files 2 a cdr.

guess if i had mo money or mo motivation, ghost would work nicely. i used 2 manage our local college's puters, and every 1 of them had 3 OS's, and 2 HD's setup in the same manner u have. anytime somethin went wrong, bang - ghost.

[DWk]

lol

i heard some networks back up their hard drives every night with ghost.... w0ot....

DWk

[kurtsl0an]

Originally posted by DWk@20 October 2003 - 15:24
lol

i heard some networks back up their hard drives every night with ghost.... w0ot....

DWk

redundancy as in RAID 5, not ghost -

[leonidas]

Someone should explain how to use Norton ghost, & pin it.

[clocker]

Originally posted by leonidas@20 October 2003 - 08:55
Someone should explain how to use Norton ghost, & pin it.

The program is pretty intuitive and comes with an excellent manual.

[DWk]

still....ppl prefer reading the forum than some .pdf manual, uc?

good idea....some1 get us a ghost tut and pin that little booga

DWk

[muchspl2]

my only guess is there seems to be allot of kids who don't look at it the same way the older folks do, I consider it failer to reformat, just like conceiting to the computer, like it controls you and you have 0 controle over it, but it should be the opposite.
you should be able to control your PC, and if you get a problem, alleviate with out copping out to a reformat