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re: _RESTORE\TEMP replicating files
Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 4:42 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mike
(37 messages posted)
I have a 40GB hard drive with one partition(I think, when I click on "my computer"
I show a D drive in addition to the C drive) and it is one physical drive. Was that
one long command to format and get the 8192 byte clusters? I am not very PC proficient
having worked at my job on mainframes my entire working life has left me less than
anxious to run home and jump on my PC, but now I find my family(wife and son) are
doing lots on it and expect me to be able to support and fix everything because "I
work with computers" for a living.... big difference between mainframe and PC. So
if I ask a lot of novice type questions... it's only because I am. How would my wife
and son put all of their documents into the D drive? Can what they have be moved
to D? Also, we have CD and DVD drives in our system.
On Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 1:14 pm, Mac wrote:
>Free MS Update CD
>Cabinet files are compressed files in which all of the operating system files are
>stored and are used in the installation process, and are also there in case you
need
>to replace a file.
>
>See: C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS or search for files and folders with a .CAB extension.
>
>Just how big is the drive you are using and does it have any partitions? Do you
have
>one physical drive or two?
>
>System Restore is too unreliable and what is more (: actually less :) it does NOT
>"restore" your system, it just rolls it back to where you were before.
>
>Maybe what you are really looking for is a program called "Go-Back" which a lot
of
>people swear by.
>
>A TeraByte image is more like Norton's Ghost.
>
>I keep ALL of my documents in drive Partitions, D: E: & F:
>
>Only the Operating System and Programs are on drive C:
>
>The entire installation is carefully customised & tuned and then a virus & Trojan-free
>image is made.
>
>If the operating system on C: fails I just format the 4·0Gb drive using/ A:\>format
>c: /Z:16 , to get 8192 byte clusters (a bit faster than using 4096 byte clusters)
>and restore ... everything ... from the image in one go. (And wow, does defrag and
>scandisk get through those 8192 byte clusters at high speed!!!)
>
>After re-boot the computer is just as good as if it had just been installed, and
>better than an OEM Restore, as it is more up-to date ... and ... it has all of your
>additional programming. (Once you have a years worth of updates, or less, or add
>new programs, you just make a new image.)
>
>This is recommended procedure, because you can get a virus before you can get the
>anti-virus definitions which will deal with it. Same with adware and Trojans.
>
>As you cannot get a virus or anything else onto your CDR Master Image your system
>is safe.
>
Mac
>
>WINDOWS HELP
>HREF="http://www.crucial.com">RAM
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