In message , mike
writes:
On 5/2/2018 7:51 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Java Jive:
I split every system I own, Linux or Windows, into two areas, system
disk or partition and data disk or partition, and I back them up
seperately in different ways.

Amen!.... I thought I was the only one.

By no means. I image my system and hidden partitions - mainly because of
the impossibility of easily restoring it otherwise (combination of the
anti-piracy measures, and the ridiculous habit of storing _everything_
in the registry). I just copy (using SyncToy, so some would say I sync)
my D: partition. (In both cases I cycle round two or three
images/backups.)

Still cannot figure out why OS publishers like MS do not build that strategy
into the way their systems are installed.

My XP netbook (Samsung NC-20), which I bought new, the first time I used
it, asked me how I wanted the C: and D: partitions arranged. OK, it
would have defaulted to them being equal, but at least it was going to
make the two. But yes, that was a Samsung rather than Microsoft thing,
as far as I can see.

Very simple. Complexity causes the support phone to ring.
Your system in a pile of corrupted bits is not their problem.

Their half-arsed mechanism of having "my" type folders is no less
complex. Having all systems default to two partitions, and all software
default to storing data on other than the system one, would not be
complicated. They could have introduced this at 7, 8, or 10 (or even XP
or earlier); the usual argument about backwards compatibility doesn't
wash, since from some version on (not sure if it was XP or 7), they've
already made some old software not work by making certain folders
inaccessible to software that doesn't know about them (with a very
complicated system - a fudge - for getting round _that_).

When you promise something like recovery, you'd better deliver.
You want all the ****ed off customers calling Macrium.

No, you want them to buy a new PC.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

.... of the two little boxes in the corner of your room, the one without the
pictures is the one that opens the mind. - Stuart Maconie in Radio Times,
2008/10/11-17