a big FU to microshit

[stoned-trout]

well my computer went crazy and I had to do the nuclear option and start over..do you have any idea how long it takes to update windows???...well neither do I ,I fell asleep finally...my guess is 11 hours..somewhere around 200 updates...hell the computer is only 14 months old....gonna be all day re registering all my software other than microshit stuff....lost all my music songs and pictures......errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...and somehow my mail stuff now goes through Microsoft too which I will fix asap......

 

[johndoe123]

I feel ya on having to restart everything from scratch. This is why I still have a desktop that I built with multiple drives and one just for the O.S. I have around 400GB of just music. I would be lost if I had to start over.... Good Luck....

 

[D. B. Doober]

not as bad as my tablet which updated in the middle of the night and has never been able to turn on after that

 

[Stayfoolish]

Got robbed a few years back. They took 6 terabytes of hard drives. All my pictures over the last decade. All my music and movies. I mean a serious collection. I would rent and buy movies just to convert digital. Was am a music producer. They got all my work. Everything. You end up getting back some of the generic shit. But there was real personal work on those disks. The robbers probably just sold them and didn't even check the contents.

 

[rives]

Set your hard drive up with a 30gb partition and the balance of the drive in another partition. You can then install the operating system in the smaller one and keep your stored data on the big side. You can then reload the OS without nuking all of your saved data.

 

[Stayfoolish]

Partitions corrupt eventually. I think the Operating system on its own solid state hard drive is the best bet. Google it to learn more. Instant load times.

 

[rives]

Yep, I've got one machine set up like that. An Intel NUC that is ready to go in less than 8 seconds. Not an option in most laptops, though. I've been running partitioned drives for years without a problem.

 

[Stoner4Life]

fyi in the future, save your pics,songs, personal media to an external hard drive. if the cpu goes down you just unplug and wait for a clean host to plug back into.......

 

[stoned-trout]

the computer went crazy and programs were crashing/not working or I would of tried to save stuff on my thumb drives ect... still trying to re register all my software and such....cant access some of my email accounts as I forgot the info I used to set them up and they now have new security features....errrrrrrrrrrrr..gonna take forever to get all this shit redone...some old emails will be lost and trying to replace em hard......I used to have a log of all the info I had but in the separation from the biotch they disappeared...

 

[dddaver]

I have had to do complete restores a few times. One good thing about Acer is they have a program that saves all your shit if you have to restore, but I just lost it all last time anyway.

I think MS really blows. I put Ubuntu 12.04 on another laptop. Office type software came with it and so did Firefox, and it is all free. When MS stops supporting XP next year I plan to put Mint on this computer. It's just another version of Linux, lot of people prefer it.

I don't know if any of that would save you from losing all your shit, but I'm just tired of contributing to the Gates fund just so they can piss on me easier, not to mention putting a huge target on my back for maleware.

 

[resinryder]

That's the price for looking at "free" porn!!

 

[Former Guest]

I was just about to say. Pornhub hasn't given me any issues. Lol

 

[stoned-trout]

get it right its PORNMD....lol.. actually I had just downloaded the new avg anti virus which requires you let them suggest software popups ...after clicking one it all went to shit.....I am back with Norton anti now.. no more free antivirus fo me....yeehaw

 

[armedoldhippy]

well my computer went crazy and I had to do the nuclear option and start over..do you have any idea how long it takes to update windows???...well neither do I ,I fell asleep finally...my guess is 11 hours..somewhere around 200 updates...hell the computer is only 14 months old....gonna be all day re registering all my software other than microshit stuff....lost all my music songs and pictures......errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...and somehow my mail stuff now goes through Microsoft too which I will fix asap......

every three or four weeks they sneak some "updates" in while I think it is shut down. every time they do, I go back & do a re-start from about 6 months ago. it automatically re-sets my 'puter to like it was then minus all of the horseshit they think I "need". takes about 15 minutes & does not change a damn thing. if I leave the crap in there, my computer shuts down within 48 hours & I get a message telling me what I need to do to make my computer compatible with their fucking "improvements'... fuck 'em, TWICE! once in each ear so they can hear me coming...

 

[yosmokinman]

Best solution is to have a second drive the same size as your main drive.

Keep everything on the main drive and use the second to store a full system image. Not "restore points," go to the built in "Backup and Restore" then click "Create a system image."

Make a new one every couple weeks when you know everything is working fine. Takes about an hour on my mostly full 500gig.

Now you have two copies of everything on two separate drives. If the main one fails or gets fucked up, simply boot from the install cd and restore from the image you have on the backup drive. You'll be back to exactly when you made that image.

If the backup drive fails just replace it and make another image so you'll never risk loosing anything. It's unlikely both drives would fail at the same time.


This really is the best way. Aside from an expensive raid array.

I've done the os on it's own partition thing but that really doesn't work well. If you have to reinstall the registry is reset aswell so programs installed on the other partition may be broken as a lot still install some shit on the main drive and any links/shortcuts will be broken/nonexistent. It's a mess.