“Today – I shall be mostly doing a clean install on my laptop”.
And then swearing as I realise I’ve forgotten to back up some arcane, but very important files…
“Today – I shall be mostly doing a clean install on my laptop”.
And then swearing as I realise I’ve forgotten to back up some arcane, but very important files…
Please, I implore you, back up the book.Though I'm sure you've done that already.
Right?
good luck.. I need to do my pc, but I keep putting it off, because there's so much stuff to back up. I really should do it before something BAD happens
I have backups of that on…Laptop (main working copy)
Network server drive
Tabletop computer
Mobile phone
USB keydrive
CF card
SD card
(Yes, yes…I am a geek).
And if you are doing a clean install, you might as well partition your hard drive: then your OS and apps sit on drive C, all your data on D.Makes it a damn sight easier to do your backups….
Hmm. I've only got mine on:1 x CD-Rom.
Does that make me a bit foolish?
I have never once dared to do a clean install on my computer.Thanks for putting me off doing one for the foreseeable future.
.. or use a *real* OS that does that anyway.
Yup, you should.Glenda
Thanks for the last few entries – your blog remains consistently one of the best I read (and god knows, I hardly do anything else nowadays…).
'Geek' is right! What ARE you lot on about?!
Backups.Those wonderful procedures for instilling coinfidence.
Until you do the restore and find the most important files were omitted.
we don't actually know, we're just making it up as we go along 🙂