[jaws-uk] Re: Jaws Users reformat Pc yearly?
- From: "martin wilsher" <m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 08:30:05 +0100
Hi George:
i do something similar to what you say. I have all my files and os on one
drive, but backup the mydocuments folder to server and to external hd from
time to time. indeed, I even keep a backup locked in another place. i had
three backups going on at the same time last week. man did that slow things
down! hehe.
Hope to hear from you soon.
From Martin.
Please email me at:
m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks
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www.martin-wilsher.com
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From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: 02 September 2008 22:11
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Jaws Users reformat Pc yearly?
I'm not Martin, but what I was referring to was "Reformat". That is to say
you completely wipe the operating system's hard drive, and re-install
everything from scratch.
In good practice, and an ideal world, you have two physical disk drives, or
at worst, two partitions. Partitions are simply a means of making one
physical disk drive look like two.
You then put all your own data, such as e-mail, My Documents, personal files
and folders on to the second drive, leaving purely and only the operating
system and programs on the first drive.
When it comes to backups, you then really only need to periodically copy
your entire second drive.
Again, in an ideal world, once you have got your first drive reformatted,
your operating system installed and updated, then all your programs
installed, you can make what is called an "Image" of this drive to DVDs or
CDs. This is essentially a backup, but one which you can restore if ever
you want to go back to a clean system.
Please note VERY carefully, that this is NOT the same as a "System Restore"
which is essentially simply a copy of your Registry at a given point in
time, plus a few other files and folders.
George.
From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Dorothy Ingram-Gorban
Sent: 02 September 2008 21:52
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Jaws Users reformat Pc yearly?
Hallo Martin thanks for responding by restore do you mean refurbish?
can't mean system restore what does the work you have done involve please?
I am sending from laptop and hope it arrives less moth eaten Dorothy
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