Re: Article - Buying a computer? Ask these 3 questions!


"Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > In news:uqyWz8VhFHA.1948@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> > Lil' Dave <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxx> typed:
> >
> > > The days of the single physical hard drive are gone. One needs
> > > 2
> > > minimum nowadays.
> >
> >
> > This is a *drastic* overstatement. Although there are clearly
> > merits to having multiple hard drives, stating that "one *needs*
> > 2 minimum" is completely false. Only a very small percentage of
> > personal computer owners have multiple drives and the others get
> > along very well without such a configuration.
> >
> > --
> > Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> > Please reply to the newsgroup
> >
> >
>
> In denial of requirement of a complete OS backup with user customizations
> and application installs. Only viable location for such is a separate
hard
> drive, preferrably an image backup to file(s).
> Many "get along" without it, but they may wish they had same in many
> instances. Of course it keeps the MVPs hopping to help fix such, not
always
> successful, that could easily restored instead from an image.
>

Not really - you do need a backup, but with two partitions, you can
make a backup of the first to the second, then when you are done,
write the files to CD-R or pref, DVD (or move them to another
machine if you have one over the network). Multiple drives are nice,
however, there are ways of working the backup issues that does not
require a second drive - only a second partition for temp storage
until you can write the backup onto some other media.

mikey


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