Looks like I fried my computer -- Note back up often!

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by SirMoby

http://www.dantz.com/
http://maxtor.com/

For a few hundred $$$ you can have automated backups happening while you sleep. It's a tax write off and worth more then every penny.

That dantz looks good, and like it would do what I want. I'm also going to talk to the tech and ask what he recommends, I'd like to burn critical stuff on dvd, but if I can set something to automatically backup everything from one drive to another as a copy, I have less chance of frying 3 drives at once, although knowing me, that is within the realm of possibilities. I am static woman, lol. |shocking|

[MrYum]

Damn V...sorry to hear about the cooked puter

Glad you were able to salvage those drives though...that's a big WooHoo!

As to the backups, I use Norton Ghost...saves an updated image of my local drives twice a day to an external usb drive. Then once a week, clears the usb drive and saves a complete image of local drives. Very slick program

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by MrYum

Damn V...sorry to hear about the cooked puter

Glad you were able to salvage those drives though...that's a big WooHoo!

As to the backups, I use Norton Ghost...saves an updated image of my local drives twice a day to an external usb drive. Then once a week, clears the usb drive and saves a complete image of local drives. Very slick program

That is what the tech suggested too. I'm going to get the program, and since I have 2 drives now for storage, I'll build on one, and have it backup to the 2nd one at least 1x a day.

Right now I'm going through the long process of re-installing all my programs. Since we installed a new os drive and to use the sata drives as my data drives, all the programs have to be reinstalled. But this is a headache I'll gladly do.

He talked me into a new processor, an AMD Sempron Processor, told me it will be faster than my old pentium 4 3.4 and he is right, I really like this, and my box stays very cool.

[MrYum]

Yep, think you'll like Ghost

Cool on the new processor...as rough as computer hell is, at least there's an upside when you get some new faster hardware out of the misery...lol.

Well...not too sure about that one! Myself, I prefer a nice warm box

[docholly]

I'm in reinstall hell here.. forgot to back up my bookmarks to bookmarks.com so everything from like last June is gone, including some of my work stuff.. which i hate.

i did have a couple of flash drives here so i put as much as possible on that and it did save most of my ass. just forgot that some of the programs i'm so used to having like MS Office, the discs were lost in my move from Seattle to Vegas. so having to start over there but have some nifty NEW programs to work with now *flashing eyez at mml*..

and i'm speeding along now.. so hopefully by this weekend i'll be up and cranking.

[cd34]

Originally Posted by docholly

just forgot that some of the programs i'm so used to having like MS Office, the discs were lost in my move from Seattle to Vegas.

if you haven't taken a look at http://openoffice.org (free) as a replacement for the MS office programs, you might want to take a look. If you need an Access like clone, you have to shell out the $70 for http://staroffice.com/.

I've used openoffice.org for a number of years and have found it to be a good replacement. I only use wordprocessing and spreadsheet functions, but, it opens powerpoint presentations in 'impress', word docs in 'writer', excel spreadsheets in 'calc'. there is a math module for higher-level math and a draw module for drawing. Overall, I've found it to be quite good and almost MS Officelike. there are some things missing and some things that are better, but, overall, its done the job for me. And its free (well, I donated money so it wasn't free for me).

[Useless]

Speaking of open source, I've been using Abi Word for over a year now instead of MS Word. You'd never know the difference and can save files as .doc so Word users can open them. I just ordered (for free) an installation cd for Ubuntu, a linux OS. Open Office and Gimp come packaged with it. I'm seriously considering dumping WinXP entirely. It has been really pissing me off lately.