tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post4302039995592197006..comments2024-03-13T10:32:22.656+00:00Comments on thanetonline: Sunday ramble from the secondhand book trade with masses of boring stuff about computers.Michael Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-25604561216220388392010-02-02T10:35:52.465+00:002010-02-02T10:35:52.465+00:00Thanks for the comments and I will indeed look at ...Thanks for the comments and I will indeed look at various other ways of dealing with the reformatting problem.<br /><br />I have man flue at the moment so my thoughts may be a little jumbled and fuzzy here.<br /><br />On the subject of IE8 my info was based on this article http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Warning-over-using-Internet-Explorer-from-German-Government-as-exploit-goes-public-906173.html and indeed there is a security update for IE8 last week.<br /><br />I have four children and the bookshop with various computers performing different functions about 12 in all.<br /><br />While things like Acronis and Ghost can be useful it all rather depends on what has gone wrong or how we have upgraded, on about half the occasions we have either replaced the main computer, so it goes up the line with the slowest usually doing something mundane like being used as an advertising display in the shop window, drops off the end or we have something like a dead motherboard or processor, something that usually means replacing these parts with more up to date ones. <br /><br />So at the moment a mixture of second drives and backing up around the network seems to work best for us.<br /><br />Don glad to know you have done a backup, I wouldn’t want you to lose all of your pictures, I learnt this the hard way when I had a drive break.<br /><br />One of the problems that I have is a lot of the stuff I have is high definition images, either scanned pages of local books or photographs, as most of you know outside of the bleakest of mid winter I often take and publish over a thousand images to the web in a week.<br /><br />Of course I keep the original HD files because sometimes people want them, or something comes up like when the council lied to the paper about the Pleasurama bulge not being there when the work on the cliff started, so I was able find the bulge in a picture I had taken when they were putting the scaffolding up.Michael Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-56482256692178116312010-02-01T23:16:22.278+00:002010-02-01T23:16:22.278+00:00Until recently I had two hard drives in my system,...Until recently I had two hard drives in my system, one contained the operating system, programmes and general day to day files, the other a rather small and very old drive for backing up inportant files..Guess which drive failed..yes operating system drive...<br /><br />I was reasonable happy that all my important files were safe and the fact i`d further backed them up to a cloud drive gave me more confidence it wouldn`t be a long job.<br /><br />But the most fustrating thing of all is reinstalling all the software..especialy when most software is downloaded and you don`t get a nice box with the registration ect. So following this painful episode i brought Acronis and Sir Head I agree the programme is the nuts.. new set up now includes boot drive with all programmes and docs, slave drive with all documents backed up and a USB drive with operating system back up.....Plus important files copied to the cloud drive...never again will I loose operating system, programmes or data...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-18666223242550757682010-02-01T20:42:57.508+00:002010-02-01T20:42:57.508+00:00Michael one step you may want to consider when ref...Michael one step you may want to consider when reformating and installing the system drive is once you have it setup with all programs and drivers needed for various pieces of hardware you make a ghost image (norton ghost) then use that to restore the drive when needed or in fact as Sir Head said acronis Disk image (also will work if you have to replace the hard disk itself)<br /><br />also the vunerability in IE was in fact in version 6 not 8Ian McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18423238899193465957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-59209546120305672592010-02-01T16:34:08.716+00:002010-02-01T16:34:08.716+00:00Michael you have shamed me into backing up my stuf...Michael you have shamed me into backing up my stuffDon Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17099505939055955603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-14108431856301605392010-01-31T15:30:23.903+00:002010-01-31T15:30:23.903+00:00I neglected to mention I use Acronis true image to...I neglected to mention I use Acronis true image to restore my drive back to its original state without the need for a full format. Its actually very useful and i consider it a must have for my machine - have a look herehttp://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/trueimage/Sir Headhttp://www.lifebuilder.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-32793111728130951942010-01-31T14:52:56.825+00:002010-01-31T14:52:56.825+00:00Ah Sir Head, consider that it is your system parti...Ah Sir Head, consider that it is your system partition that boots your computer, so if you had really formatted that whole drive you computer wouldn’t in fact boot.<br /><br />The advantage of doing it the way I said is that you make a floppy that not only completely wipes your drive, including the boot partition but also contains the files to boot your computer for the first time after formatting.<br /><br />You may also consider that if formatting the way you do it really did format the whole operating system drive it would wipe the registry entries for the programs installed on your program drive, so they wouldn’t work.<br /><br />You may also wish to consider what you would do when your single hard drive wears out and ceases to function, had this happened to me although I back up everything outside of the computer on a monthly basis, I would have lost most of the months work.Michael Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-10879778487081397632010-01-31T13:41:02.533+00:002010-01-31T13:41:02.533+00:00Michael i have to disagree with you about partitio...Michael i have to disagree with you about partitioned drives, you do NOT need to wipe the entir lot - just the drive you want to - I have 3 drives - The main one which is partioned one part carries the operating system and the other part carries copies of all the programs that are installed on the drive as well as program specific save data. One drive has music and video on it and one is used entirely for saving work to and working from.<br />The point is i had to format the system drive but didnt have to wipe any of the other drives at all partioned or not.<br />Good blog thoSir Headhttp://www.lifebuilder.co.uknoreply@blogger.com