Instant Backup
Lately, I’ve been getting errors on my laptop that my hard drive is full, and virtual memory is running low. I’m thinking, after over two years, it’s time clean things out, back everything up, and start fresh again.
A little after the last time I started over on this computer, I got a spare hard drive for the machine for a project that never went anywhere. Shortly thereafter, I put the drive in an external case, which connects to my computer via USB 2.0. Convenient place to put backup data, no? I thought so too. But then I had a thought today.
The drive in the external case is, ostensibly, identical to the drive in my notebook. The easiest way to make sure everything that needs to be backed up is backed up is for the original to be the backup.
Sometime later this week, I’ll pull the drive from this machine and swap it with the drive that’s currently in the external casing, and install the OS on this new drive. Time for a fresh start on my computer again.
Ultimately, I’d like to make a fresh start on new hardware… and not PC hardware. But that’ll take some investment.
K4
November 20th, 2007 at 12:23 AM
‘…and not PC hardware”
Meaning what you want to go get a Power chip or something? Unless you mean mean a Mac….which is of course on “PC Hardware’ these days.
(Reply to this comment) (Quote) (View thread)
Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>
Pauley
November 20th, 2007 at 9:32 AM
A Mac is powered by Intel processors and chipsets, but it is Mac hardware. And yes, I intend my next computer to be a MacBook Pro.
– Pauley
(Reply to this comment) (Quote) (View thread)
Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>
Leave a comment