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wilder
SiNFeCted
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Posted: April 01 2009,18:41 |
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I'll delegate XP question to Slatts.
I dont run XP anymore. I'm either Windows 2003, or Vista, or MacOS X 10.5
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Byte_mE
senile and cranky old fart
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Posted: April 03 2009,21:22 |
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i'm not married to xp64 bit. i got a copy of vista ultimate 64bit which i may try this weekend.
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slatts
Overlord
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Posted: April 04 2009,00:01 |
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what ever works best for you...
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wilder
SiNFeCted
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Posted: April 06 2009,19:54 |
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couple cool things about vista... no more F-6, and floppy during installation. You can use USB drives to load drivers during Vista installation.
If you got business edition or ultimate, you can take full drive backup into USB HD. If your HD crash you can restore/recover back to here without re-installing windows. Just load your setup dvd, then choose to do recovery. Browse to your USB backup drive, and do recover. Voila, you're back to where your last backup was. You can even burn it into set of DVDs. USD HD is much faster.
I did this a couple times already, and it works like a champ. No longer do i have to worry about reformating my HD and re-installing and losing hours to re-tweak, re-configure, etc. It can recover in 15 minutes!
I take a backup when I install vista and had a near-perfect setup.
This feature is more than enough for me to drop XP and head over the vista camp. How many times did you ever had to reformat HD and re-install XP, and spend hours just configuration, and not even recovering from backups? Sure you can buy Ghost, or other products, but this is BULIT into vista. and it's native.
I also no longer need my floppy drive. yay.
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