Recent content by jimfoto

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    SSD Installation via imaging

    So I'm looking at a Sandisk Extreme SSD on sale: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820171567 and thinking I might take the plunge. I'm not sure if 120 gig is big enough (more on that later) but I'm wondering about the install. Is it possible to decrease the size of data on my primary...
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    Dark Red Screen Tint on alternate boots

    Every other time I boot my machine, the screen comes up with a dark red cast, almost as if the green and blue channels aren't working. Actually it can boot a few times ok or a few times with the red but it's mostly every other time. The boot screen will come up with red writing, the windows...
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    Drive Lettring Suggestions - Does it really matter

    It won't help to keep 500gb of pure data separate from my OS and programs?
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    To RAID or not to RAID

    Backup B restores to new drive C, which then gets plugged into where A was, right? Acronis will create my boot disk too? And Macrium will do the same?
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    Drive Lettring Suggestions - Does it really matter

    I just built a new system and am trying to come up with a sane lettering solution. Here's my old system: b: data 1 (internal) c: OS d: factory image e: dvd burner f: c drive backup (external) g-j: all sucked up by a multicard reader (only use g) k: data 3 (music) l: data 2 (external) m: l...
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    To RAID or not to RAID

    Are you suggesting that I just create backups using Win7 of my OS and continue doing scheduled incremental backups of all my pictures?
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    Installing Win 7 in a seperate OS partition

    What about having 5oog for OS and programs and another 500g partition for data (primarily photographs)?
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    Installing Win 7 in a seperate OS partition

    I'm guessing that without a separate partition for my OS, I'll never be able to clone it if I switch over to a much smaller SSD for my OS.
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    To RAID or not to RAID

    All right. So now I'm looking for software that will create a bootable drive of my OS hard drive and will do incremental backups of my data. I work with a large number of images my backups are basically copies of the files. I like having uncompressed files with the same folder structure in...
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    Disk Imaging and File Backup

    I guess I'm really looking to clone my OS drive on a regular basis and copy my data from one drive to another on a scheduled basis. Normally the copying would be two way with a periodic one way session to clean up the backup drive.
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    Disk Imaging and File Backup

    I'm looking for software that will create a bootable drive of my OS hard drive and will do incremental backups of my data. I work with a large number of images my backups are basically copies of the files. I like having uncompressed files with the same folder structure in my backups. My...
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    To RAID or not to RAID

    I haven't really considered RAID 5. I'm a single user and my main concern is data redundancy. Also, RAID 5 is a bit complicated and I'm a RAID newb.
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    Installing Win 7 in a seperate OS partition

    I'm installing Win 7 on a clean drive (my first PC build). Is there any advantage to partitioning the drive with a partition just for the OS? Is there any reason to partition at all? It's a 1tb Spinpoint.
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    To RAID or not to RAID

    I'm a photographer wil ots of large image files. I have a new system that I'm just assembling (my first) and I'm agonizing over whether or not to use the hardware RAID in a RAID 1 configuration. I didn't have enough hard drives so I thought I'd add RAID later; Well Win7 won't start if you...
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    Newb doing first build - Couple Questions

    So No hard drive or dvd either?