Re: This is Why Consoles are More Popular than PC's for Gaming

Quoth The Raven; HockeyTownUSA <magma at comcast dot net> in
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> "Xocyll" <Xocyll@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "HockeyTownUSA" <magma at comcast dot net> looked up from reading the
>> entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
>> say:
>>
>>>I have been an avid PC gamer for at least 15 years. But recent
>>>incidents makes me understand the love and desire for a high-end
>>>gaming console. For one, I had to reformat and reinstall Windows
>>>recently. While I have done this dozens of times, each time is a new
>>>experience with its new set of issues, and takes literally 4-6
>>>hours, and that's even if everything goes well. Just remembering you
>>>needed that faithful floppy disk to install SATA
>>>drivers only to find out you don't have internet access to download
>>>them, or
>>>even worse yet, a floppy drive to support it since this is a
>>>floppy-less society, is no fun activity.
>>
>> All of this can be easily accomplished if you think ahead.
>>
>> Unless the drive is hosed there is no need to reformat, just delete
>> the windows directory and maybe the program files one if you've
>> backed up all application data.
>>
>> Keep a copy of the windows disk on the harddrive.
>> Keep all relevant drivers on the harddrive in a drivers directory.
>> When you get them, install them then move them to that directory so
>> they aren't lost. Back them up to cd if you have a burner.
>>
>> Do this kind of thing and reinstalling is painless except for when
>> windows guesses wrong during pnp and detects hardware as something
>> else entirely.
>> Even that will be a lot less hassle if everything else goes smoothly.
>>
>> Xocyll
>> --
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>> a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
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>> FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
>
> I've used Drive Image for years and did a backup of both a basic
> install, and with all Service Packs and latest drivers installed.
> This works alright, but sucks up a lot of extra storage. Problem is
> that Drive Image 4 (2002) is the last PowerQuest version, and quite
> frankly, I don't trust anything released by Symantec. I used Ghost to
> backup my hard drive and everything was corrupted. EVERYTHING. So I
> lost lots of important files. Unfortunately there's no other decent
> backup software that will compress a whole drive and not just the
> contents. Leave it to Symantec to screw that up too.

I love ghost 2003 and highly recommend it to all, the latest, ghost 9 (2005)
was a buy out of drive image I believe (or another popular prog) and frankly
I hate it and it never backs up without crashing, and only once did it
backup properly, it refused to restore when I needed it. ghost 2003 has
never failed me on all the pc repair jobs I do. I have only ever had a
problem when customers don't have an old fashioned standard floppy disk
drive or space to save the image to. now days I take both a spare fdd and
hdd just to back them up and repair their computers with no files lost.

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