On Tuesday 02 May 2006 02:18 pm, Teresa and Dale wrote: > Hi, > > OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has > already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to > working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this > happens again, this is windoze so it will happen, likely sooner rather > than later too.
I just make sure I don't do anything important on Windoze. Then if it dies... oh well, worse things can happen at sea. > I want to be able to back her drive up to a CD, the whole thing even if > it takes a few CDs. When it dies again, I want to be able to put in the > first CD and it boot and reinstall everything from there with little > interaction from me. > > Is there such a creature? Please tell me it is free. I'm used to Linux > remember. IBM/Lenovo has this neat little Rapid Restore thing which does exactly that. I'm not sure it'll work on a non-IBM machine, but it's worth a try. > I can't believe I let her spend almost $200.00 on that crappie OS. < > hangs head in shame > She a great person in all other respects though. > I just have to keep working on this area. Not everyone is a computer junkie ; ) > Oh, I'm still looking for help with samba share so I can copy her > documents and such to my rig, since mine seems to always work. :D > Again, sorry to ask a windoze question here but it's not like I ask > anywhere else. Set up a Samba server... hmm... KDE Control Centre has a excellent interface for that. Very easy. In a related story... The first time I used Samba to do some network transfers I spent ten minutes checking file intergrity. It went so darn fast... I was sure something was wrong. No, it's just that windoze networking is so darn slow! It's now a pain to do anything windoze-to-windoze! Linux and Samba is so much faster!
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