PCWorld on bootable images

[Timothy Daniels]

What is it with PC World? Their September 2004 article on
backing up data has a sidebar on page 121 ("What's the quickest
way to get up and running following a catastrophe?") that implies
that bootable hard drive images (i.e. hard drive clones) have to
reside on external USB or FireWire drives and that you need
a utility like BounceBack Professional 5.5 to create such a boot-
able image. Somehow, the author got it in his mind that Ghost,
Drive Image, True Image, etc. just make images which first have
to be "restored" with a rescue floppy, a rescue CD, or a rescue
DVD before they can be booted. Does anyone here read the
article differently? Is the subject too technical for PC World?

*TimDaniels*

 

[Lil' Dave]

Bear in mind the magazine was designed for beginner level users, and the
magazine is strictly a marketing tool for hardware targeted at these users.
The writers are of similar level ability.
This was the last issue before my subscription expired which I allowed to
lapse intentionally for obvious reasons.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Unfortunately, PC Magazine is even worse. It adopted a
cutesy style about a year ago that has to make some little pun
or "funny-ism" in the last line of most articles. It has gotten
to be not much more than a supermarket line 2-minute read.
I had some hope for PC World since it only comes out once
a month versus PC Mag's twice a month, but even PC World's
articles have become pablum. Now what will I read while
sitting on the john? Will I have to buy a laptop with a wireless
connection just for that?

*TimDaniels*

 

[Lil' Dave]

Just a natural end to things. Time to move on to something more rewarding
than filling pockets of hardware and software vendors.

 

[Winey]

Unfortunately, PC Magazine is even worse. It adopted a
cutesy style about a year ago that has to make some little pun
or "funny-ism" in the last line of most articles. It has gotten
to be not much more than a supermarket line 2-minute read.
I had some hope for PC World since it only comes out once
a month versus PC Mag's twice a month, but even PC World's

Try Maximum PC. A lot of "attitude" there.

 

[Adam Leinss]

Try Maximum PC. A lot of "attitude" there.

Maximum PC is cheap too! I remember getting a 3 year subscription for
only like $8/year and it comes with demo game CDs each month!

Adam

 

[chrisv]

Just a natural end to things. Time to move on to something more rewarding
than filling pockets of hardware and software vendors.

Nice top post. Wouldn't want to leave some white space between your
post and the one that follows...