Going back to win7

Decided to "bite the bullet" & format the usb3 2 TB drive; bad news
for me as lots of i/o errors trying to mass copy my media files in
"chunks"; then the copying stopped & I cancelled as obvious it was
not doing anything. The last resort will be to get another nas drive
as it could be a drive problem (mostly not) but most likely it is
the micro**** usb3 drivers.

Don't know if the win8.1 format using the disk management.

Will get the win7 drivers before going back; have at least saved
my tb profile & addr book & ff bookmarks.

At least I didn't reinstall all my apps/programs on win8; perhaps I
shouldn't have been expecting big problems with 8.1 on a working
usb3 drive.

And some say they never had to reinstall the os........lucky.....

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:36:27 +0000 (UTC), generic name
wrote:

And some say they never had to reinstall the os........lucky.....


That's like saying "Some say they never set their house on
fire......lucky....."


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On 2013-10-22 8:36 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:36:27 +0000 (UTC), generic name
wrote:

And some say they never had to reinstall the os........lucky.....


That's like saying "Some say they never set their house on
fire......lucky....."



But re-installing Windows is so much fun.

If a person wants to re-install more than infrequently, I'd recommend
creating a System Image stored on an external harddrive, or somesuch.

Install Windows and activate, and update. Then install all one's
applications and configure, update and activate those. Then make a
system image.

If perchance one wants to have a fresh copy of Windows, all one need do
is apply the image and be up and running in an hour or so (and not the
hours and hours it would take to install and configure from scratch).

Always backup important documents, files, data, etc. separately.

WireTalk

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On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:25:21 -0500, WireTalk
wrote:

On 2013-10-22 8:36 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:36:27 +0000 (UTC), generic name
wrote:

And some say they never had to reinstall the os........lucky.....


That's like saying "Some say they never set their house on
fire......lucky....."


Again--be very careful with your attributions. I did *not* write any
of the above.


But re-installing Windows is so much fun.


I couldn't disagree more. It's a lot of hard work, can often take a
long time, and for many people often leads to problems of its own.

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On 11/15/2013 11:25 AM, WireTalk wrote:
On 2013-10-22 8:36 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:36:27 +0000 (UTC), generic name
wrote:

And some say they never had to reinstall the os........lucky.....


That's like saying "Some say they never set their house on
fire......lucky....."



But re-installing Windows is so much fun.

If a person wants to re-install more than infrequently, I'd recommend
creating a System Image stored on an external harddrive, or somesuch.

Install Windows and activate, and update. Then install all one's
applications and configure, update and activate those. Then make a
system image.

If perchance one wants to have a fresh copy of Windows, all one need do
is apply the image and be up and running in an hour or so (and not the
hours and hours it would take to install and configure from scratch).

Always backup important documents, files, data, etc. separately.

WireTalk


It should read that re-installing Windows used to be so much fun. Not
so today, even from a pristine, clean original install due to all of
the updates that gets added. And it is a pain to make weekly images of
a hundred or so gigabytes of the system and apps in their partition(s).

GR

On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:59:46 -0800, Ghostrider " 00 wrote:

On 11/15/2013 11:25 AM, WireTalk wrote:
On 2013-10-22 8:36 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:36:27 +0000 (UTC), generic name
wrote:

And some say they never had to reinstall the os........lucky.....


That's like saying "Some say they never set their house on
fire......lucky....."



But re-installing Windows is so much fun.

If a person wants to re-install more than infrequently, I'd recommend
creating a System Image stored on an external harddrive, or somesuch.

Install Windows and activate, and update. Then install all one's
applications and configure, update and activate those. Then make a
system image.

If perchance one wants to have a fresh copy of Windows, all one need do
is apply the image and be up and running in an hour or so (and not the
hours and hours it would take to install and configure from scratch).

Always backup important documents, files, data, etc. separately.

WireTalk


It should read that re-installing Windows used to be so much fun.


I don't even agree with that.

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Ghostrider 00 wrote:
On 11/15/2013 11:25 AM, WireTalk wrote:
On 2013-10-22 8:36 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:36:27 +0000 (UTC), generic name
wrote:

And some say they never had to reinstall the os........lucky.....


That's like saying "Some say they never set their house on
fire......lucky....."



But re-installing Windows is so much fun.

If a person wants to re-install more than infrequently, I'd recommend
creating a System Image stored on an external harddrive, or somesuch.

Install Windows and activate, and update. Then install all one's
applications and configure, update and activate those. Then make a
system image.

If perchance one wants to have a fresh copy of Windows, all one need do
is apply the image and be up and running in an hour or so (and not the
hours and hours it would take to install and configure from scratch).

Always backup important documents, files, data, etc. separately.

WireTalk


It should read that re-installing Windows used to be so much fun. Not
so today, even from a pristine, clean original install due to all of
the updates that gets added. And it is a pain to make weekly images of
a hundred or so gigabytes of the system and apps in their partition(s).

GR

I've never had an o/s and software image (Ghost, Acronis, Macrium - I
still prefer Acronis) greater than 22 GB (my last three full images
combined total 54 GB). My current data on a second drive and redundant
on external drive(files,3rd party software, drivers, pictures, music)
backup on external is 47 GB - a quick look shows that includes about 14
GB of old XP/Vista/Office 03/07 isos, software and drivers no longer needed)


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