With XP, simply mirror the drives. To keep a "virgin" clone, simply break the mirror and keep the second drive.
Another method is to use XXCOPY to clone the drive. Works a heck of a lot better than Norton Ghost - which is a genuine pain in the tush. Another solution is "partition Magic" - but the free XXCOPY is easier to use and just as good.
No, all except SOME OEM and CORPORATE or MOLP licences require authorization. They require re-authorization if more than six? items are changed, and can be re-authorized 10 times.
This is why I do NOT recommend doing a clean install every time you get a bad virus infestation.
I got it - used it - what I think it is a little behind the facts. It doesn't know DVD disks for anything. Put in a CD and it works. It just takes a handful of CD's.
Backing up a 200G or 100G disk now-a-days is a mean task.
And if you have a lot of problems and keep reinstalling XP, eventually, it won't register at all. Then you get to call tech support (which sounds like it too is in India.) and get a new number.
Naah, I've been working in IT for 25 years, I don't think there are any new ones. A few verbs surprise me from time to time, but the adjectives really don't change; just the target of them shifts.
Mirroring (RAID 1) is a good idea, and definitely the way to go as it'll keep the system up if the drive fails while the system is running (which is when most of them fail, isn't it?) instead of just crashing and creating more problems. However, wouldn't the drive not be considered "virgin" if it came from a broken mirror? It seems like the only time the drive is clean is when the system is down, elsewise the system has to be put into some sort of quiesced state before the mirror is detached to ensure the filesystem is consistent at the time it is detached. If you detach the drive while the system is down, the system will come back up reading a failed drive but at least the data on the removed drive will be at a point when the system wasn't touching anything on the drive. Booting from that removed drive would, hopefully, come up cleanly and not require any sort of consistency check and the system would just log a message about a missing element in the mirror. It works that way on other operating systems (Solaris, Linux) so I'd hope Windows would follow suit. Of course, them's mighty big hopes.
Or you could just attach that drive, and another identical drive, to the system and use Linux to dd one drive directly onto the other. But then, that's the Unix geek in me trying to find a way... ANY way... to avoid using Windows! That method does suffer from the problem of requiring identical drive geometries, though, which I'd guess any of the decent commercial drive duplicating softwares could avoid.
I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show "Joe" wrote back on Sat, 26 Feb 2005
07:22:36 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :
From the Ivars Commercial of that time frame: two typical Norwegian fishermen, rain slickers and all, watching a Costner look alike cavorting with a giant clam. And the one says to the other (in Norwegian with sub titles) 'He should be called "Dances with Clams"' to which the other responds "Ya shur".
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:43:56 GMT, the inscrutable "Joe" spake:
No, it's right on topic. See the "OT:" on the subject? ;) It's been a couple years since I saw that for the fifth time so I don't remember his Indian name. And I can't seem to find it on Google. Drat!
What a stirring movie! I have a strong stomach, but seeing that Civil War hospital scene at the beginnning, then the buffalo kill by the white men later, both punched me right in the gut. It's got to be one of the best movies ever. Right up there with Fantasia, the Star Wars Quintilogy, and Rambo: First Blood. ;)
P.S: I'm still in love with Stands With Fist and the quiet little Two Socks fella.
- Yea, though I walk through the valley of Minwax, I shall stain no Cherry.
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