Backing up my C Drive

[chesters1]

£1300 impossible! unless it has a 52" monitor

some beast used for top end gaming with the latest fastest cpu and the dogs bulwarks in everything else but £1300 to do a bit of text someone saw you coming ,a bottom end 300 pounder would do that and more.

 

 

i hear at bootfairs people saying it cost me £1000 new when flogging their pc's ,yes it probably did but its worth sweet FA now! only the hard drive is worth saving if its got a reasonable size and only as a back up, all the rest is obsolete and fit for land fill.whats top of the range this year is given to africans next year unless your hard up like myself.

theres an old couple with a 100mb zip drive with a large lable saying BRAND NEW ,yes it was 15 years ago its worthless now

Edited December 27, 2007 by chesters1

[Ken Davison South Wales]

£1300 impossible! unless it has a 52" monitor

some beast used for top end gaming with the latest fastest cpu and the dogs bulwarks in everything else but £1300 to do a bit of text someone saw you coming ,a bottom end 300 pounder would do that and more.

i hear at bootfairs people saying it cost me £1000 new when flogging their pc's ,yes it probably did but its worth sweet FA now! only the hard drive is worth saving if its got a reasonable size and only as a back up, all the rest is obsolete and fit for land fill.whats top of the range this year is given to africans next year unless your hard up like myself.

theres an old couple with a 100mb zip drive with a large lable saying BRAND NEW ,yes it was 15 years ago its worthless now

 

Yes at the time it was the dogs what it's, one of the first Pentium 4, 1gb memory, 80gb hard drive, complete with a 17" flat screen monitor and yes I knew it would like all PCs be obsolete in a year or less but still perform well enough to keep me in touch for around three years.

 

Not into gaming as such but I do a lot of video editing and the faster the processor the better, with out a doubt the best machines I ever owned were the ones I built myself, but like every PC they soon go out of fashion.

 

That is one thing I miss the old zip drive, I have a rake of stuff on them and no way to get it of.

[poledark]

Ken, I think that Chesters read your post in the same way I did i.e. you have only just bought the £1300 model,

 

Den

[Lid]

If you do go down the image copy route, like Acronis True Image, there will be independent reviews available that state it works. Ideally you would test a full restore to a new system.

 

I've dome plenty of simple folder and file recoveries and they work fine, as long as you remember to reinstate backed up files without the original security if you are loading to another machine.

[Dan]

All very interesting boys!! but how do I go about reformating my C Drive and reinstalling XP given that I have no disc (the Tower cost me £200 at least 3 years ago but it works and would be a shame just to trash it, its got a 120gig hard drive (half full) 1/2 gig ram and a celeron D330 chip (2.66ghz). I do however have a big external Hard drive to help.

 

Dan

Edited January 1, 2008 by Dan

[IanR]

All very interesting boys!! but how do I go about reformating my C Drive and reinstalling XP given that I have no disc.....

 

Dan

 

 

PM me your postal address?

 

 

Cheers

 

Ian.

[Lid]

Don't. If it was me, I'd back up the drive now with Acronis (in case something goes wrong). Then I'd run some of the utilities found in Tune-up 2008 to remove all rubbish etc. Then a full anti virus scan and an adaware scan. When everything appears in order (hopefully), finish off with a disc defragmentation.

 

However there may be other reasons for you system's slowness. How much RAM does you PC have? Are you running some new programs or services which you didn't used to? It could be that you are there something running on your PC now that simply stretches its capability too much.

Edited January 1, 2008 by Lid

[Dan]

Hi Lid

 

Spec is a few posts back, Its getting old but Ive not added anything new to the PC, I regularly defrag, clear temp files/history/cookies etc, AVG virus scan, and I run Windows Defender and do Spybot scans from time to time. Office 2003 had an update bug that ate resources but that has been fixed now. SVhost seems to use a lot of resource but that may be normal.

 

Its just getting slower and slower - as Windows always has, I used to reinstall W98 every 6 months to keep everything sweet.

I have never found any of the tune up type software's to do anything you cant do yourself with the PC. Does Tune up 2008 really do any good?

[Lid]

I have never found any of the tune up type software's to do anything you cant do yourself with the PC. Does Tune up 2008 really do any good?

 

I can't recall all the functions and I am at work now. However I remember that two features I found useful were Registry cleanup and the start-up manager. It also has some performance optimisation tools.

 

Why not give it a try - it's a free trial. If it is no good for you, dump it. Presumably you are up-to-date with all your Windows updates.