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I downloaded a fresh copy of Acronis TrueImage Home 9.0 today and installed it on my ThinkPad. I'll be imaging the ThinkPad hard drive to an external drive tonight. Over the next week I'll be embarking on building a couple of computers. I used to enjoy doing that, but not anymore. I'm only doing it because I want to rebuild my two primary workstations - the one that went up in flames 3 years ago, and its replacement which cratered due to a dead drive controller on the mother board last summer.
Both have really nice cases, top-quality power supplies, and nice peripherals that still do what I need, so I didn't want to just toss that stuff. Besides, my luck with branded PCs is no better. They go up in flames for me, too. I'm just death on computers, for reasons that completely escape me.
These two will be clones - identical motherboards, CPU chips, DIMMs, and system hard drives. That way when the first one dies I can just swap right over to the next and keep on working. In the meantime, the backup unit will serve as a file server and A/V workstation.
I really hope these are the last two computers I ever have to build. Maybe I'll switch to Macintosh when the time comes to buy another one.
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One really neat thing to do when you change computers is to use Acronis to make a backup image of your existing computer, then load up VMWare or MS Virtual PC and create a virtual machine and use the Acronis rescue CD to restore the image to that vm. Then you can run your old machine inside your new machine during the transition period and have access to all your running programs and their data.
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Brent Ashley wrote:
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> One really neat thing to do when you change computers is to use
> Acronis to make a backup image of your existing computer, then
> load up VMWare or MS Virtual PC and create a virtual machine
> and use the Acronis rescue CD to restore the image to that vm.
One of these days I'm going to invest the time to understand vm technology well enough to use it. The idea of being able to abstract the hardware layer makes a lot of sense given the my most expensive desktop applications - Adobe Creative Suite, etc - now tie themselves to specific hardware combinations via activation. I hate that because it is an enormous pain in the ass for someone like me who just routinely kills computers. Have you ever tried to explain to a tech support geek that yes, you really did fry two motherboards in the past month? Yes, you really did munch 4 hard drives in four weeks? Stuff like that just makes me nuts, but I've learned to live with it.
VM tech would make it a lot easier.
But, to me, the VMWare product listing reads like the Architect's speech in The Matrix 3. They have a bunch of free products and from reading the descriptions you'd think that's all you needed, but I know that just can't be right. What do I really need to start testing VMWare stuff on one of my new computers?
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