Re: Scratch Drive

On Jan 30, 5:41 pm, Malke <notrea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mark wrote:
My school uses what I believe are called "scratch drives"
I can save stuff to the c: drive, but when I log on again, everything
I've saved is gone, unless I save it to my network drive.
I'd like to do something similar with my own computer. I go through a
lot of software, sometimes only using it once or twice, or maybe for a
single semester. I can uninstall it or delete it when I'm done, but
all these programs and files seem to leave some residue behind
(modifying your registry and what not). I'd like an easy way to
completely restore my c: drive whenever I want. I tried doing a
system restore before, but I don't think that deletes any excess
files, only reverts the old ones, which caused problems.

Does anyone know how I might do this?

The school is probably using something like Faronics' DeepFreeze, a
program that restores the computer to its clean state at a set time
every evening. DeepFreeze is overkill for you, but imaging would fit the
bill perfectly. Buy an external hard drive and a good imaging program -
I prefer Acronis True Image but there are others - and get the computer
set up just the way you want. Then image it and store the image on the
external hard drive. When you want to get a nice, clean machine again
just restore the image.

Malke
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Thanks Malke! I've got a couple hard drives already, so I'll give this
program a shot.

Mark
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