Backup program needed

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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.
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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
 
Doum said:
"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
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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!
 
You love what? The backup program that came with the Seagate HD or
Microsoft's Sync Toy?
 
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