On 10/14/2010 09:35 AM, Preston Boyington wrote:
Mark wrote:
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None of this matters if you use Clonezilla. So why even fiddle with it
when there's a great alternative?
I use Clonezilla a great deal, but most people don't think to make an
image of the machine before they start Windows for the first time.
What I'm talking about is having the ability to restore the machine to a
factory state, with no personalization, in the event of your selling or
passing it along to someone else. Doing this allows the new user to walk
through the setup routine that is presented and personalize it to their
taste.
A very good point. I was going to mention that the restore discs
provided by some vendors (via this method of creating them using a
utility provided by the vendor) will let you perform a clean OS
installation which omits some or all of the "extraneous" or third party
software that comes with the factory image. That's a very nice feature
since, otherwise, I'll just be buying another license and doing a clean
installation without the cr*pola added by the OEM anyway.
It also lets any subsequent owner of the system get a nice, clean
Windows image (well, as nice and clean as they get) on the system.
I don't use Windows on any personal systems these days, but it was
surely nice to have the option of an installation without all of the
weird stuff added by the computer maker because of all of those
sweetheart deals with their business partners.
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