Re: How to save updates
- From: Linus <Linusverl@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:19:05 -0700
Thank you all for your help. Shenan Stanly answered my question precisely so
I must give him the credit and admit that I did not know about the monthly
ISO patches.
However, because my new machine has an eSATA connector that I have never
used, I found Rich/reat & John Barnett’s suggestion more appealing. Gave me
an excuse to order a Roswill external enclosure and another hard drive (About
$130.00 from NewEgg)
Using old Norton Ghost Backup software with eSATA, I backed up every thing
on my computer in a little under two hours.
Using the same set up last night, but with the 2.0 USB connection, the
backup took a little over eight hours. So be advised, eSATA is great.
To answer the question, “Why do I reinstall the OS so often.” I learned
long ago that this is almost always the quickest and often the only way a non
technical person can get rid of a new bug or a persistent high jacker.
Thanks again for all your help.
--
Linusverl
"Shenan Stanley" wrote:
Linus wrote:.
Running an Intel Conroe Extreme and Windows XP Pro. That's very
fast but my internet connection is Extremely Slow.
My OS and programs are on hard drive partition C: My Documents are
on partition D:
When the system gets full of bugs and slows down, it's quick and
simple to wipe partition C: and reinstall the OS and the other
programs, but I just spent three hours finding and installing all
my program updates from the internet. (I use automatic updates so
my system is always up to date)
My Question:
Is there some way I can transfer all these updates already on my
computer (for my OS and all my other programs) to a CD and save
them before I wipe the partition, then after I reinstall the OS and
all the other programs, just reinstall all the updates from the CD?
Seems like there should be a way to save those updates to a CD and
install them in ten minutes, rather than spending hours finding
them and downloading them again from the internet.
Any advice in this regard will be appreciated.
Install a clean system next time - get it up and running and then make an
image of the hard disk drive (or at least the boot/system partition) using
your favorite imaging application... Acronis TrueImage, Symantec Ghost,
BootItNG, Casper, etc... Then you can apply that image the next time you
feel you need to rebuild your system.
However - you would probably be better off learning what happens to break it
so often and fixing that issue instead. I have over 6 years on one XP
system - never been wiped and fresh installed. In fact i finally just made
it into a virtual machine using VirtualBox and am actually using it right
now on top of my Vista machine to post this very message. *grin*
Now if you really want to do the clean install everytime for some reason -
you can downbload SP3 and post SP3 updates each month and keep them
set-aside. The easiest method would likely be to download the ISO image
provided each month (as well as the ISO image for Windows XP SP3.)
Service Pack 3 for Windows XP (ISO of CD):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2fcde6ce-b5fb-4488-8c50-fe22559d164e&DisplayLang=en
Each month Microsoft puts out that months
patches in an ISO format for burning to CD:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913086
Have a physical CD writer but need a way to burn the ISO images?
ISORecorder page (with general instructions on use):
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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