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bsuggestions wanted on hard drive allocation
Windows XP pro.
Home system with one or two other PCs on the network and I share the H drive. C: 250G SATA HDD 20G used 212 available. primarily apps and desktop files and whatever defaults to the C drive. (not my TB mail folder which is very large and on H) D: 250G SATA HDD 16.9G used 215 available I don't use this drive but three folders show: MSOCache; Recycler and System Volume Information. As far as I'm concenred this drive should be empty since I never write to it. H: is external USB 117G used 115G available. I consciously put everything on this drive. All eggs are in this basket, and with all the hard drive space available, I need to get on the ball before my next hdd crash. The C and D are not configured for RAID and I don't want to bother. Goal is to set up a sensible drive usage. Like make C the drive with everything on it, and then mirror the whole thing onto D and use H for redundant back up to H. I think I need to obtain Acronis. But am unfamiliar with the command set or what the best procedure would be; steps to take to transfer files etc. |
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bsuggestions wanted on hard drive allocation
Use the second drive for the XP pagefile and
for temporary files created by your software application (Some applications will allow you to specify where you want the temp files to be located) Create a folder on the second drive for files you download, this keeps them from gobbling up disk space on your primary drive and makes for smaller Acronis Image backup files. Also use Acronis to create image backup to the second drive (especially if you do frequent backups) then move one image backup each month to the external drive. For example the image backup you create just before installing Microsoft's monthly (Patch Tuesday) security updates. I also create an image backup to my second hard drive prior to installing any new software or major updates to existing software like MS Office. You could also use a utility named "SyncToy" to make quick backups of your 'My Documents' folder to the second drive. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en In short your second drive provides a quick means of recovering from a problem and your external drive is the means of last resort. True Image 2009 - has a 15 day trial version available, (Create a Restore/Rescue Media CD before you start) http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/ User's Guide: http://us1.download.acronis.com/pdf/...ge12_ug.en.pdf During the 15 day trial test creating image backups to a unique folder (one folder per backup, sample folder name: ATI_MMDDYY or _060609) Create the 'Rescue CD and see if you can boot from the CD and locate the image backup file you created. Product Review Acronis True Image Home 2009: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/w...ews/16045.aspx -- JS http://www.pagestart.com "timOleary" wrote in message ... Windows XP pro. Home system with one or two other PCs on the network and I share the H drive. C: 250G SATA HDD 20G used 212 available. primarily apps and desktop files and whatever defaults to the C drive. (not my TB mail folder which is very large and on H) D: 250G SATA HDD 16.9G used 215 available I don't use this drive but three folders show: MSOCache; Recycler and System Volume Information. As far as I'm concenred this drive should be empty since I never write to it. H: is external USB 117G used 115G available. I consciously put everything on this drive. All eggs are in this basket, and with all the hard drive space available, I need to get on the ball before my next hdd crash. The C and D are not configured for RAID and I don't want to bother. Goal is to set up a sensible drive usage. Like make C the drive with everything on it, and then mirror the whole thing onto D and use H for redundant back up to H. I think I need to obtain Acronis. But am unfamiliar with the command set or what the best procedure would be; steps to take to transfer files etc. |
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Why bother with "imageing/mirroring" to another hd,simply create a
RAID 1 set,this basically does the same but has other advantages a single SATA hd does not.Read intel info on it at: http://www.intel.com/performance/des...erformance.htm "timOleary" wrote: Windows XP pro. Home system with one or two other PCs on the network and I share the H drive. C: 250G SATA HDD 20G used 212 available. primarily apps and desktop files and whatever defaults to the C drive. (not my TB mail folder which is very large and on H) D: 250G SATA HDD 16.9G used 215 available I don't use this drive but three folders show: MSOCache; Recycler and System Volume Information. As far as I'm concenred this drive should be empty since I never write to it. H: is external USB 117G used 115G available. I consciously put everything on this drive. All eggs are in this basket, and with all the hard drive space available, I need to get on the ball before my next hdd crash. The C and D are not configured for RAID and I don't want to bother. Goal is to set up a sensible drive usage. Like make C the drive with everything on it, and then mirror the whole thing onto D and use H for redundant back up to H. I think I need to obtain Acronis. But am unfamiliar with the command set or what the best procedure would be; steps to take to transfer files etc. |
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On Jun 7, 12:17*am, Andrew E. wrote:
* Why bother with "imageing/mirroring" to another hd,simply create a *RAID 1 set,this basically does the same but has other advantages a single *SATA hd does not.Read intel info on it at:http://www.intel.com/performance/des...ologies/storag... "timOleary" wrote: Windows XP pro. Home system with one or two other PCs on the network and I share the H drive. C: 250G SATA HDD 20G used 212 available. primarily apps and desktop files and whatever defaults to the C drive. (not my TB mail folder which is very large and on H) D: 250G SATA HDD 16.9G used 215 available I don't use this drive but three folders show: MSOCache; Recycler and System Volume Information. As far as I'm concenred this drive should be empty since I never write to it. H: is external USB 117G used 115G available. I consciously put everything on this drive. All eggs are in this basket, and with all the hard drive space available, I need to get on the ball before my next hdd crash. The C and D are not configured for RAID and I don't want to bother. Goal is to set up a sensible drive usage. Like make C the drive with everything on it, and then mirror the whole thing onto D *and use H for redundant back up to H. I think I need to obtain Acronis. But am unfamiliar with the command set or what the best procedure would be; steps to take to transfer files *etc. I was not going to set up RAID because on my mobo (ASUS P5WD2-E PREMIUM) it is very difficult; the peformance increase would be negligible, and it would require reinstalling Windows. I am not ruling out the RAID, that's whay I'm asking for suggestions! Thanks for the feedback |
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On Jun 7, 9:07*am, timOleary wrote:
On Jun 7, 12:17*am, Andrew E. wrote: * Why bother with "imageing/mirroring" to another hd,simply create a *RAID 1 set,this basically does the same but has other advantages a single *SATA hd does not.Read intel info on it at:http://www.intel.com/performance/des...ologies/storag... "timOleary" wrote: Windows XP pro. Home system with one or two other PCs on the network and I share the H drive. C: 250G SATA HDD 20G used 212 available. primarily apps and desktop files and whatever defaults to the C drive. (not my TB mail folder which is very large and on H) D: 250G SATA HDD 16.9G used 215 available I don't use this drive but three folders show: MSOCache; Recycler and System Volume Information. As far as I'm concenred this drive should be empty since I never write to it. H: is external USB 117G used 115G available. I consciously put everything on this drive. All eggs are in this basket, and with all the hard drive space available, I need to get on the ball before my next hdd crash. The C and D are not configured for RAID and I don't want to bother. Goal is to set up a sensible drive usage. Like make C the drive with everything on it, and then mirror the whole thing onto D *and use H for redundant back up to H. I think I need to obtain Acronis. But am unfamiliar with the command set or what the best procedure would be; steps to take to transfer files *etc. I was not going to set up RAID because on my mobo (ASUS P5WD2-E PREMIUM) it is very difficult; the peformance increase would be negligible, and it would require reinstalling Windows. I am not ruling out the RAID, that's whay I'm asking for suggestions! Thanks for the feedback my pagefile is on C and is 1536-3072 recommended is 4606 I want to either make the existing bigger, move it to D and make it bigger, or have two pagefiles, the existing and an additional on D sufficiently sized to a meet recommendations suggestions, and exactly haow do I do this without crashing my PC? |
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timOleary wrote:
Windows XP pro. Home system with one or two other PCs on the network and I share the H drive. C: 250G SATA HDD 20G used 212 available. primarily apps and desktop files and whatever defaults to the C drive. (not my TB mail folder which is very large and on H) D: 250G SATA HDD 16.9G used 215 available I don't use this drive but three folders show: MSOCache; Recycler and System Volume Information. As far as I'm concenred this drive should be empty since I never write to it. H: is external USB 117G used 115G available. I consciously put everything on this drive. All eggs are in this basket, and with all the hard drive space available, I need to get on the ball before my next hdd crash. The C and D are not configured for RAID and I don't want to bother. Goal is to set up a sensible drive usage. Like make C the drive with everything on it, and then mirror the whole thing onto D and use H for redundant back up to H. I think I need to obtain Acronis. But am unfamiliar with the command set or what the best procedure would be; steps to take to transfer files etc. IMO the best method is to use a program like Acronis - good choice, or Norton Ghost, also good. Schedule program to back up nightly when the computer's not in use, to an external hard drive. Start with a Full backup and schedule one for say every first day of month. Then in between only do incrementals. Take the first Full backup and commit to DVDs. If you have the moxy, 2 sets of DVDs, one to keep at the computer and one to store offsite somewhere, anywhere you consider safe. Repeat after each monthly full backup or whenever you make substantial changes to your machine. Acronis can I think do all that for you automatically; I don't use it. I know Ghost can if Acronis can't. Personally I only make CDs when there have been substantial changes to the system but that's because I don't make a lot of changes. For development work, extremely important to back up stuff, I use XXCopy in a batch file to back that stuff up; fast and can be run as many times a day as I wish, each file having the date/time added to it for identification. Sort of a version control. The XXCopy output goes to a DVD I keep in the drive or if there's nothing in the drive for some reason, goes to the external drive for later transfer to the DVD. Lots of things you can do and lots of ways to do them. For offsite storage, I keep a copy at my sister's. HTH, Twayne` |
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