Backup program needed

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"choro" <[email protected]> écrivait

But I feel it is now time to switch over to the new computer I have
built for myself as the motherboard on my old faithful won't support
SATA drives. The new motherboard is equipped with a fast four-core AMD
CPU as well as a very fast DDR3 graphics card plus a generous 4 GB
DDR3 RAM. My old faithful will only take PATA HDs, AGP graphics cards
and much slower memory modules. But it still is my old faithful and I
am finding it hard to switch over to my newer computer. I guess I am
put off by having to reinstall all the programs I have already
installed on my old faithful and all the tweaks I have made on my old
faithful which incidentally is now a full 10 years old. It was and
remains my first true love!

I also have to admit that I am so happy with my Windows XP/SP3 that I
hesitate to move over to Windows 7.

With your new machine, XP-SP3, which is a 32 bits OS, won't use the full 4
gigs of RAM.

Install Windows 7 - 64 bits and you will be using the whole 4 gigs and you
will get the free utilities you want to do your backups the way you want
and even create a system image with all your programs and drivers already
installed to restore your machine in case of serious problems.

Last year I installed XP-32 bits and Seven 64 bits in a double-boot
configuration on a new Core2Quad system with 8 gigs RAM and I rarely boot
in XP anymore. By the way, when I create a system image in Seven, it
detects the double-boot and includes the XP hard disk in the image.

It's your choice...

HTH

 

[choro]

"choro" <[email protected]> écrivait



With your new machine, XP-SP3, which is a 32 bits OS, won't use the
full 4 gigs of RAM.

Install Windows 7 - 64 bits and you will be using the whole 4 gigs
and you will get the free utilities you want to do your backups the
way you want and even create a system image with all your programs
and drivers already installed to restore your machine in case of
serious problems.

Last year I installed XP-32 bits and Seven 64 bits in a double-boot
configuration on a new Core2Quad system with 8 gigs RAM and I rarely
boot in XP anymore. By the way, when I create a system image in
Seven, it detects the double-boot and includes the XP hard disk in
the image.

It's your choice...

HTH

Thanks for the info. I have already built myself a Win 7 64 bit machine. The
4 Giga DDR3 RAM is on that machine. I call them my chocholate bars! But the
new machine is still sitting under the desk as my number 2 "desktop" though
I hardly ever use it even though I paid top dollar and bought top notch
components to go into my new machine. One of these days I will get round to
moving it on to my desk and hooking it via my KVM as my number 1 machine. It
is already connected to my KVM but as my number 2 machine.

It's got 2 hard disks of 1 GB each. Nothing on the second HD yet. I am
toying with the idea of installing Linux on the second HD. I will still have
my old faithful XP/SP3 machine hooked to my KVM as my number 2 machine this
time.

But I am getting on in years and am not as energetic as when I was even 5
years ago. Another problem is that even though I am retired and at least
theoretically have got all the time in the world, the days are still only 24
hours long. And I love talking to young things in their 20s and early 30s.
Mind you, these are very nice girls I know socially. What attraction I hold
for them I have no idea but they seem to find me interesting. Not for me
meeting girls on the Internet and engaging in dirty talk. YUK!

 

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You love what? The backup program that came with the Seagate HD or
Microsoft's Sync Toy?