PC hard drive failure

[Miuu Miuu]

Hero's Call is eh.... It's for Java Based cell phones. I forget what the EQ for PocketPC is called. Hero's Call only has two class. Warrior and Mage. Warrior beats stuff up with swords and bows. Mage uses spells. Well, Warrior can use spell too, just less powerful than mage. I don't play it much as it's quite annoying to bang away on the cell phone, but it fills the time when I got nothing else to do.

And as for Ghosting my HD, I never said it was perfect, just that I did it. I figured I'd have to use the 60 gig for something, and that was a use for it. I'm actually too lazy to discconect the HD and store it away. In reality, I should take the 60 gig out and store it away, but then it's a hassle to keep updates current. It's not a big deal for me to reinstall and patch EQ up to current if it crashes (although with LoY and LDoN being download only, it's rough), but I've done it before.

[Shiloch Veneficus]

Well, the idea of ghosting is not to keep it up to date with constant updating. Its actually meant to preserve the most basic functional state of your system that you could possibly have.

The concept is geared towards ghosting a machine once you have the OS installed with basic applications and all drivers functioning, before it has much data or other misc. downloaded crap. I can see trying to keep a semi-up-to-date EQ folder, but I'd just zip that up or something rather than bother with imaging it.

The goal of ghosting is to have to keep from reinstalling the OS and configuring your system drivers -- a massive time saver. If you're using it for more than that, I'd just use solid backup software. MS backup is good enough, or there's plenty of other more feature-oriented software for that.

In the end, the reason I think you should disable a HD dedicated to backup purposes is because by running it all the time, you're just eating up its life span. It would save a large chunk of change to not have to replace it nearly as often as your primary hardware.
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[warlax007]

Dos version of ghost fits on a floppy disk ~wink~wink~wink~




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