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JoesMorgue, the next time you reinstall and configure and tweak your system, you will find things that you had previously overlooked, so this time your pc will work better.
JoesMorgue, the next time you reinstall and configure and tweak your system, you will find things that you had previously overlooked, so this time your pc will work better.
For the record: This is EVERYTHING I bought:
BR: Amazon.com: 8X BLU RAY WRITER BULK WITH SOFTWARE: MP3 Players & Accessories
PS: Amazon.com: 800 Watt 800W 120mm Fan ATX Power Supply 12V 2.3 EPS12V 2.92 SLI-ready PCI-Express SATA 20/24 PIN Intel AMD by KENTEK: Computers & Accessories
SSD: Amazon.com: OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SATA 3Gb/s OCZSSD3-2VTX120G 3.5'' Solid State Drive (SSD) with up to 285MB/s read and 50K IOPS write: Electronics
MB: Amazon.com: ASUS M5A88-M AM3+ AMD 880G HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard: Electronics
CPU: Amazon.com: AMD FX-8150 8-Core Black Edition Processor Socket AM3+ FD8150FRGUBOX: Computers & Accessories
RAM: Amazon.com: Corsair Dominator 16GB (4x 4GB) Desktop RAM Kit: Computers & Accessories
PARTIALLY, I'm adding this to answer your question, partially, I'm adding it so I can point to it later if anybody asks me in the future.
ALL My Docs, Music, Photos, Favorites, & Desktop files sit on my server, the data loss is restricted to the setup of the OS itself. My server makes monthly backups of folders for a second copy. My Virtual XP sat on another drive, so I didn't even lose that. [Now, someone here get my TV to work: https://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-c...-properly.html ]
Some people have pointed out that my drives are probably NOT SATA I, but they are old, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are. I'm not used to seeing the "Welcome" screen with that little circle during the boot...
The most important lesson you should have learned is that one has to make frequent images to be prepared for such a disaster case. I image 3x per week. When one of my 6 SSDs dies, I am prepared. But they seem to enjoy a good life - some since nearly 4 years.
My user files are in a seperate partition. But I am on the PC appr. 6 hours per day (and no gaming which I hate). A lot of things change all the time - both in the system and in the data partitions.
I used to make an image each day - at boot. But found that this was a bit of an overkill. The system images in 6 minutes and the data in 8-10 minutes depending which disk I use for the images. I have Satas, eSatas and USB3 as choices.
How did you do images at boot?
I never understood the point of multiple partitions on a disk. OK, Viruses that focus on a drive usually focus on C:\, but drive issues usually take out all partition. EVERY machine I have built had a single partition on the drive[s] because of this. Can you explain?
no, it's not blank spaces, you can leave data and other stuff you don't feel like imaging in another partition that won't be imaged.
For me is irrelevant, this rig mobo's sata are all SATA I so it takes a long while anyway. (yes, I had to put a jumper on HDDs to tell them to run at SATA I or everything was unstable)