Time to laugh at benkenobi0

[benkenobi0]

Well, 2 days ago my computer croaked. It kept giving me warnings that I ejected my cd drive and stuff so I decided to restart my computer cuz I hadn't in quite a while. I restarted it and BAM blue screen of death at startup. It turns out it couldn't find my cd drive which is part of the boot sequence so I just ended up wiping out my computer. Right now I'm busy loading drivers and drivers and old programs and stuff so that's why I haven't been on in case any of you were curious (yeah...right)
It's really sad cuz I didn't realize how much I needed my computer for homework...Ah well, gotta load drivers and microsoft office and stuff, I'll be back in a few days

[HobbesAB]

That really sucks. My advice: Image File. Once you have your system loaded with apps, drivers, etc make an image file, burn it on CD, label it, and breathe a sigh of relief. I like using Ghost, but there are others out there.

[(TSC)Bender]

My school uses Ghost Just burn the driver installer programs on a disc. Thats what I did. Hopefully my cpu won't crash. You can make it Delly!!!

[sponge]

You should've gotten into DOS and backed things up, or replace the Windows shell with winfile.exe if the command line isn't your thing.

[David Horn]

XP comes with something called Automated System Recovery.

Run Backup and a wizard will talk you through the steps.

[jadam1]

just reformat, it takes like 1 hour.

[James S]

David, System Restore uses up 10% of your hard drive space at minimum. If you'ver got a 60gb HD then then cuts it down to 54GB's automatically. I don't know about you, but I bought a 60GB HD to have a 60GB harddrive.

[jadam1]

[benkenobi0]

[Mechcommander]

[James S]

Ya, but you're only losing 2 GB's!

[Annoying Snails Master]

you copy me

[David Horn]

Actually, Automated System Recovery and System Restore are totally different things.

Think of System Restore of what it actually is: something that doesn't work.

ASR, on the other hand, is like Ghost for Windows XP.

You just make your image, XP makes a floppy, and then you run XP setup from the bootable CD. The floppy gives information on the image, and in an hour, everything's happy again.

I installed Windows normally, put office and my favourite apps on, set up my net connection (satellite, takes ages) and then image the disk. Then, I've got a good start point when my PC starts getting slow and miserable.