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Computer Attacked
On Aug 13, 9:44 am, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote:
Per Flasherly: If the DVD/CD's in: 1) 15-2-m/sec, 2) a quad-channel, Class 10 USB flash stick for 30m/sec, 3) HDHD 50m/sec when excellent rates between disparate physical drives or same-platter partitions. As one who re-images as soon as I even *think* the system might be getting goofy, I've got to get this working for myself. Is the bottom line that you have a really-fast USB stick set up to boot the restore environment - plus a faster-than-usual DVD drive? -- Pete Cresswell When building, a bit of both -- what's needed for whatever the BIOS supports, utilities of course on a DVD already set up for that that, partitioning, file and boot manager -- added odds and ends later or located elsewhere for polishing it off with a fast, quad-channel flash drive. Actual imaging is then limited to FAT32, although I haven't much need for other than one smaller NTFS partition for tokens when running into odd instances of greater than 4G files, exceeding FAT32 technological capacity. At least two, three images are good, consecutively dated back in directories accompanied with a brief text file for each image to explain to yourself changes, notably program installs and any OS adjustments made since or between the prior imagine. Pretty much all on a rotational scheme. I've a 6G partition for holding imagines, 4G for the prime OS, and a subprime DOS, hardly nothing in size, to boot to when rewriting the prime. I also defragment the imaging drive from the inner- to outer-drive by placing images into the inner-track portion (UltraDefrag is the only one I'm aware that will accomplish that). Indulgence, then, is a big benefit. Let those new programs sit awhile, if there's in the least a question, to stew in good practice before incorporating them into the backup structures. Though rare, there have been a couple of instances of programs placed into the last image I decided subsequently against, and removed by going back to prior images of three available. As well, as you mention, a regular regime to imaging upon a hint of instability upon internet-borne compromises. Plenty of those where I've needed images to get my ass out of a crack in the nick of time. Laziness will add some toll over the long run -- the hardware support drivers, other overlooked orphans that aren't properly removed as time and equipment marches on and imaging overhead slowly increase their size. I suspect I got into this imagining stuff back around Windows 98, when given a complimantary copy of Ghost for DOS with a 600Mhz slotted AMD Athlon, included with Biostar MB purchase. Biostars break, but other than watching for transfer rate issues over newer chipped MBs, the Ghost revisions keep on ticking between. System cleaning and driver removal utility tools have since advanced and are much more sophisticated, but I haven't really learned them well enough to compliment imagining or to comment and personally recommend namesakes. I like Comodo as one, my regular firewall for constant usage, although some do speak highly of its installation monitor and removal tool, the same company since has released. |
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