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I have found on rare occasions that a deleted full image still holds it space.  I have to use explorer and a file deleter to get rid of the occasional “deleted image”.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

PKCano wrote:

I always create a CD or bootable USB.
You can leave those two programs on your drive. They take up very little space.

  I do the same, except I make both DVD and USB boots, because in the past, sporadically a USB fails to boot (for whatever reason), and the DVD very rarely fails to boot.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

[WSRolandJS]

I have been creating Macrium Reflect and Image for Windows DVD boots as well as USB boots.  Rarely does the USB boot stick not boot.  When it does not boot, thankfully, my DVD boot almost always works.  For the last 2-3 years, I have kept both the recent DVD boot and the previous DVD boot.  And, made two twin USB boots.  I have the laptops’ boots and backup HDDs in respective plastic ziplocks in the tiny geek safe when not in use.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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Periodically an update for MR rolls out, I make bootable 1 DVDs and 2 USB sticks respectively for both laptops.  That way, if for some strange reason either the previously-tested-some-days- ago DVD or the USB stick does not boot, the other one usually will.  If/when a Restore is needed, one problem I do not want is:  “My only boot device for said laptop doesn’t boot.  Now what?”

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

RolandJS in bleepingcomputer and sevenforum – backup/restore sections.  Right ear problem, will be back later possibly.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

In another forum, I mentioned a potential problem:

Backup image of OS has X date/time stamp

Backup image containing user profiles and/or MyDocuments has a different time/date stamp.

Would there be problems trying to “merge” user profiles/My Documents into OS, since they both have different time/date stamps?

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

For some time now, I have two partitions, C for OS and all installed programs and utilities, and D for all data.  I leave the My Documents alone, I simply “tell” all programs and utilities that bother to “listen” — put all results into D subdirectories…

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

I must be going computer blind, where is the New Thread button?

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

I found out the hard way that keeping all USB ports on both laptop and cooling assembly clean helps keep them in great working order.  Apparently, probably, there presently exists hardware and software causes concerning the usb ports.   Each laptop and its cooling assembly are taking their turns in a local business computer place getting cleaned and thoroughly checked.

“Dirty” [and malfunctioning] USB ports caused problems with backup/restore operations.  No external USB platter-driven HDD nor any USB flash drive was picked by normal or safe mode Windows 7.

Booting a Macrium Reflect DVD or an Image For Windows DVD did the job, the external usb hard-drives and flash drives were picked up — backups made.

If anyone has any ideas as to the possible software, normal & safe mode Windows 7, causes for the above-mentioned problems — let’s start a new thread in this forum, thanks!

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

Here is one thing I use to make Windows Update operations pretty hassle-free:

http://www.SecurityXploded.com – Windows Update Disable [it enables it also]

It takes a little bit getting used to, because the menu you see offers you what choice you can do next, it does not show what choice you have made.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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Charlie

WSBernadine:  Personally I use two external USB 1TB platter-driven hard-drives for each laptop to make bi-monthly or sometimes weekly backups of my C-partition, which many call the C-drive.  And, I use two more such external hard-drives for D[ata]-partition backups.

Later on, possibly explore using the free version of Macrium Reflect as a 2nd backup/restore.

Whatever you do, using the software and hardware you are familiar with, please do weekly backups, or, at least bi-monthly.  Yes, even when done at night or when you’re not on the computer, it takes a lot of time.  However, consider this:  how much time, how much effort, how much resource material — would you need to recreate your documents, papers, spreadsheets, etc., stuff for school?

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

It is, however, we all remember our early days of TRS-80 and beyond!

My only experience with TRS-80 was watching somebody else put a cassette into the input device for cassettes, and the cassette gave the computer some instructions, probably an evolution upwards and onwards from punchcards.   I can’t remember which school in Houston I saw that computer.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

PKCano wrote:

Word or Word Perfect?

Both actually, back then, Microsoft had a simple Word somethingOrOther program.  And, later on, I added and used WordPerfect for DOS for some time.  Additionally, I also used DOS versions of  — dBASE II & III, EasyWriter II, Volkswriter, PC-Write 3.11 & 4.01, QuattroPro, FoxPro, etc., until forced into Windows 98 and 98SE.  Like my MSDOS cert? 

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[WSRolandJS]

IBM 5150, 8o88 proc, 8086 math co-proc, 5.25 FDs, 20MG HD, 640MB base mem (replaceable memory modules), 360MB EXT-EXP mem card, green or grey phosphorus monitor, serial keyboard, serial mouse, cereal Cheerios, and so on.  Purchased used for $500.00 I think 1986.  GW Basic, DOS 3.x, Lotus 123, Word, CCmail, dBASE I & II, etc.

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Earlier, bbearren gave me: Creating a TeraByte Recovery Environment, WinRE Boot Disc, or UFD Containing Image for Windows (TBWinRE)

bbearren, there were so many choices in that document!   Should I accept almost all choices as Default.  For example, if IfW has choice X or choice Default, I am thinking now simply to accept what is already clicked.  Now, are there any choice clicks that would be different?

I am finally getting a round tuit!

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted