Re: Disk Imaging - Update


"Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 07/09/2007 in message <5kds4eF39ftmU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tickettyboo wrote:
I have no data at all on the C drive so there's only the OS to worry
about. The registry is changing from second to second though, how
often do you copy that over?

How often are you going to make a recovery disc? <g> For my purposes, I
like a clean fresh install, with my progs and setings all the way I like
them. I want the registry uncluttered like the day I first installed.
Okay so I may have to do some updates again but unless you back the
whole kit and caboodle up every day ( I suppose I could do that if I
could be bothered) as soon as you boot and press a key the registry is
diferent

In any event the cost of an extra XP licence must be more than imaging
software by quite a margin?

Why would I want an extra XP licence? When I decided to have another
installation on a separate partition ( no long after XP first came out)
I was told by various clever folk that the second install would not
activate, the sky would fall in and Bill Gates would chuck his teddy at
me <g> So, I ran Microsoft and the nice young man said it would be just
tickettyboo, I can't be booted into both at the same time ad they are
going on the same machine so its ok with Mr Gates :-) I have the other
partition to mess around with, don't put new progs on my 'best' one till
I see if it plays nice with the stuff I have .

Prolly have to fiddle a bit with the boot.ini cos I give my drives
nice names <g> but it does the trick.

That works on partition numbers so drive names shouldn't affect it.

ys but I fiddle cos I like the proper nice name to come up on the boot
menu :-)

I'm sure it works for you but it does sound like a typical pmj
solution to me!

LOL he does like to make things a bit out of the ordinary , but it does
the job if I want a quick solution to a screwed up OS. I look at it as a
sort of mega system restore, I am going back to a point where I am
certain everything is how I want it to be.

Have you actually tried to restore a broken installation using that
method?

Well, I have never ( yet) totally brokted an entire installation.
Sometimes it gets a bit screwed up though and I can do the deleting and
dragging and its fine.

--
Ticketty᧧


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