New Pornstar Interviews - [more]
Chloe Temple Interview

"I’ve hooked up with multiple people in one day, just bounced from one to the other."
Participate...

log in
register
Browse...

Etiquette
Active Topics
Popular Topics
Member List
Search
All Forums > Tech Talk > Tech Talk Forum Page 47 > I want to back up everything on my disk
AuthorPost
nietzsche
Deactivated User

5470 Posts
8/03
Posted - Sep 17 2005 : 10:54PM
What are my options? I ask because periodically I have to reinstall my OS (XP Pro) and I dont want to have to reinstall everything.

[Link]
PL
Senior Member

God hates us all, you know it's true, God hates this place. - Slayer
1726 Posts
10/03
Posted - Sep 17 2005 : 11:08PM
Backup as in programs and games or just files?

If files use CD-Rs, DVDRs or FlashDrives.

It's difficult to backup programs and games as many will not let you run them unless they have been installed. For example MS Office. If you backed up all the proper files scattered across your HD and put them on your new install without a proper install (from a CD/DVD), then as you go to start up Word for example you will get an error message saying "Program not installed properly. Please re-install and try again." or something to that effect. Games are much the same way but you can typically install the game like normal, but overwrite the new files with the old ones and end up with all your saved configs and stuff - I used to do it all the time with Call of Duty. Haven't tried it on Battlefield 2 yet...

Good luck.

Go To Top of page
[Link]
nietzsche
Deactivated User

5470 Posts
8/03
Posted - Sep 17 2005 : 11:20PM
See this is the problem: every once in a while the display on my XP pro craps out. I won't go into details, but it renders the computer useless and I have to reinstall the OS. This happens about once every 9 months or so. I would like to make a periodic back up of everything on the computer so I donb't have to reinstall it.
Go To Top of page
[Link]
jamesn
Senior Member

Cambridge, MA
750 Posts
1/04
Posted - Sep 18 2005 : 12:09AM
raid's overkill for that, butyou could do the image thing with ghost or acronis, but i'm with pl--keep your important documents on a seperate HD or partition and back 'em up every now and then to disk along with all of the programs and drivers you know you use. when it's time to reinstall-just reinstall everything. no junk all over your registry, things run faster, life feels better.
Go To Top of page
[Link]
Redish All-Star Supporter
Poetic Moderator

Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine
4076 Posts
12/03
Posted - Sep 18 2005 : 3:33AM
PL -

BF2 saves everything in My Documents so you don't have to go thru key changes every time you re-install.

Is under My Docs/Battlefield 2

Go To Top of page
[Link]
 
PL
Senior Member

God hates us all, you know it's true, God hates this place. - Slayer
1726 Posts
10/03
Posted - Sep 18 2005 : 9:44AM
I noticed that folder... Been backing it up incase of a hiccup, was kinda small anyway Thanks for that info Redish.

I forgot about the imaging thing, but you will still have to do backups, but it will make your "restore" time faster. Norton Ghost will do the job, but I do a format and reinstall every 6 - 9 months anyway so I know how you feel, but I'm in a constant mode of back-up. I have separate hard drives for that

Go To Top of page
[Link]
Jeff @ IAFD All-Star Supporter
Webmaster IAFD.COM

931 Posts
6/00
Posted - Sep 18 2005 : 11:23AM
While I've been ghosting my OS partition lately , and keeping my Documents and Settings folder on another drive (which is backed up seperately), that does have its downside, most notably if you fuck up your profile (like I seem to have done), reghosting doesn't do much for you, and you'll end up reloading the OS and your apps.

So, the next time I rebuild my machine, I believe I will use a hybrid approach.

Keep Documents and Settings on the C: drive and relocate the My Documents folder to the D: drive (mostly for space considerations, and also to minimize the amount of data on the C: drive, so ghosting doesn't take so long)

That way, when I reghost, I get the old version of my registry instead of keeping the current fucked up version like I have now...

But Ghosting works great. They mentioned another disk backup program recently on a TWiT podcast (Acronis, maybe?) which should do as well, too.

Go To Top of page
[Link]
All Forums > Tech Talk > Tech Talk Forum Page 47I want to back up everything on my disk

Previous topic: Opera does not load new stuff.
Next topic: Confusion over DVD regions/players?



Jump To: