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"Anthony Buckland" <anthonybucklandnospam@telus.net> écrivait
news:OYYfRpDxIHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:
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> "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:eDcamFAxIHA.1772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> It used to be that manufacturers supplied a copy of Windows that you
>>> could use to reinstall the OS in case it got messed up. That seems
>>> to have gone out of style.
>>>
>>> ...
>> Looks like you have some good advice already so I won't just repeat
>> that stuff.
>> But for the future if you invest in a disk imaging software.
>> Symantec's Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image are the two leading
>> applications and both work very well. Not free but not very
>> expensive either, relatively speaking. Then you could make backups
>> whenever you wanted to and restore the machine to any date since you
>> started making the backups, even if the hard disk is trashed and has
>> to be replaced with a new one. Read the manual/s carefully so you
>> know how to do that since it's something you won't do very often.
>
>
> And if you go this route you won't likely lose nearly as much.
> If you back up reasonably frequently (I use True Image, and a
> complete C: backup to either a removable drive or to the TI
> protected Secure Zone on my main drive takes less than half
> an hour) you need lose no more than your most recent data
> and software updates. Assuming, that is, that your OS mess-up
> becomes obvious fairly soon after it happens.
>
> Even total destruction of my machine could be recovered from
> with my TI CD-ROM and my removable drive, once I could obtain
> a sufficiently duplicate machine.
>
>
If I was the OP, I would still try to find out how to create the DVDs to
restore the machine like it was brand new in case he sells it or give it
away so he doesn't give its own programs, and gives a "clean" machine.
Doum
news:OYYfRpDxIHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:
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> "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:eDcamFAxIHA.1772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> It used to be that manufacturers supplied a copy of Windows that you
>>> could use to reinstall the OS in case it got messed up. That seems
>>> to have gone out of style.
>>>
>>> ...
>> Looks like you have some good advice already so I won't just repeat
>> that stuff.
>> But for the future if you invest in a disk imaging software.
>> Symantec's Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image are the two leading
>> applications and both work very well. Not free but not very
>> expensive either, relatively speaking. Then you could make backups
>> whenever you wanted to and restore the machine to any date since you
>> started making the backups, even if the hard disk is trashed and has
>> to be replaced with a new one. Read the manual/s carefully so you
>> know how to do that since it's something you won't do very often.
>
>
> And if you go this route you won't likely lose nearly as much.
> If you back up reasonably frequently (I use True Image, and a
> complete C: backup to either a removable drive or to the TI
> protected Secure Zone on my main drive takes less than half
> an hour) you need lose no more than your most recent data
> and software updates. Assuming, that is, that your OS mess-up
> becomes obvious fairly soon after it happens.
>
> Even total destruction of my machine could be recovered from
> with my TI CD-ROM and my removable drive, once I could obtain
> a sufficiently duplicate machine.
>
>
If I was the OP, I would still try to find out how to create the DVDs to
restore the machine like it was brand new in case he sells it or give it
away so he doesn't give its own programs, and gives a "clean" machine.
Doum