I followed Chuck's plan a while back, found an old copy of Acronis, cloned
my ailing C: drive, and got things working fine. I'm also running XP, SP 3.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT PC backup programs
> On 5/21/2013 5:38 PM, Brian Swale wrote:
>> A call for advice please.
>>
>> I have noticed slightly increasing noise from my PC hard-drive lately,
>> and
>> have decided to get a stand-alone hard-drive for back-up. Also sometimes
>> the PC baulks at starting as it should.
>>
>> I haven't done this until now due to money considerations, but I think
>> the
>> time has come to take the next step.
>>
>> I have installed a Newegg SATA controller card, obtained through the help
>> of Chuck ( Newegg will not sell to New Zealand), so that part is ready.
>> I'm
>> running Windows XP. Dick Smith, an electronics retailer is just 7 km
>> distant.
>>
>> Please advise what back-up / restore programs are recommended,
>> preferably which will do periodic additions to backup.
>
> From what you describe, what you need first is to clone your boot drive
> onto a new HD. If the boot drive is indeed
> failing, prompt action may avoid a lot of trouble.
>
> If, by chance, you boot drive is a Western Digital - and you buy another
> WD to replace it, you may download a special,
> free copy of Acronis True Image that only works WD to WD.
>
> I have been having some problems with booting. They are most likely the
> power supply, but I had not backed up my boot
> disk for ages. I used the Acronis WD Edition to clone the drive, and am
> now running on the cloned drive, which has
> almost infinitely fewer running hours than the one it replaces.
>
> Chuck found an older version of Acronis cheap, and has reported here that
> it works well. So if you have other brand
> disks ...
>
> After cloning, you may consider incremental content back-ups and/or
> clones.
>
> Now I need to see if the power supplies of this and my last desktop are
> compatible. It's really time for a new computer,
> but in the mean time, I'd like this one to run trouble free.
>
> Moose Clone
>
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