Re: OT: windoze woes and full rant mode is on

I use Acronis as well.

I haven't set it up for my new Notebook yet as I am in the process of
acquiring a high speed 200GB external drive for image copy.

The new machine (Sony Vaio AR250G) is superb and I'm having far too much fun
with it to consider mundane things like backups... :-)

I've already encountered one problem: I needed to transfer a fair chunk of
stuff from the old Pentium 4 Notebook to the new Vaio (Core 2 Centrino 64
bit). My newly installed wireless LAN wasn't working properly so I connected
the two machines using Firewire... (400MBS, about 8 times the maximum speed
of wireless :-)). The Vaio was sucking data so hard that the Pentium
overheated! It overheated so badly that it finally cut out before the
transfer was complete... It was doing just under 3GB a minute; after around
5 minutes the thermal cutoff tripped in and it simply stopped... The Vaio
never even broke into a sweat :-) I finally got it to work by raising the
Pentium 4 onto some books and using a large fan to keep air moving under it.

Sorry to see the problems you've been having, Charlie.

By coincidence, I also had trouble configuring Outlook 2003 for Newsgroups.
I did what it said and installed the 'News' item onto the GO menu. It
worked, but only for the first time I tried it! Next time I opened Outlook,
the option was gone from the menu. I tried to repeat the process of
installing it again but now the GO menu options didn't show it! I spent
several hours before I sussed what was wrong. It involved a power struggle
to be the default mail and News client between Outlook Express and Outlook.
It was resolved when I let OE be the news client and Outlook everything
else, but it wasn't fun and it was only trial and error that solved it.

I'm also considering IE 7 so I read with interest your cautionary
experience. I'll post here how it goes when I get round to doing it.

Pete.



<docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eifut0$4fn$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <YtK2h.1898$0r.1534@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Charles Hottel <chottel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

So I bought Symantec Norton Save and Restore(NS&R). This is getting way
too
long so I will
omit the gory details. It did not work.

As a mainframe jockey my backup mantra is 'Incremental daily, system
weekly'; I have been using the Acronis TrueImage software
(http://www.acronis.com , the copy I have is of an older version (8.0))
and the only difficulties I have had involved getting files from an
archive that had been made on another machine (file/folder permissions).

I formerly used Norton Ghost, which was fine for up to Win98... when I
tried the XP version it seemed like they'd made it (Ghost) bloatware to
the point where booting from the Restore disk (Norton proprietary, I
believe) took fifteen to twenty minutes. Acronis will allow you to make
as many boot CDs as you wish; booting from one brings you into an
environment where USB devices (ie, external drives) are recognised and a
restore can be made to a blank HD.

This translates to - speaking from experience here - losing a hard drive
at 2:pm, going to a computer store and getting a replacement drive (larger
size than the original), booting from the Acronis CD - be prepared to
navigate the GUI with the keyboard, the wireless USB mouse I have didn't
seem to work well - selecting my restore and waiting about an hour. By
4:pm I was back up and running.

Must have 'bare metal restore' capabilities.

(Every Sunday I do a full backup to a USB external drive and I then use
Acronis' scheduling software to do an incremental at 11:47pm (2347hrs).
The only nuisance is that I haven't found a way to automatically redirect
the incremental backup script to the new archive so I have to do it
manually.)

DD



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