I have an enormous drive easily 1TB worth of projects.. To back up the cloud I'd need about 1.2-1.5TB so as it all fits.
Though I suspect that's more for what external drive is for. I do no not trust my dell to do anything. At all. I do not like and nor do I trust it at all. I just want a fun to use functional computer and I have no idea why that seems to be asking to much of the universe. For example I found out yesterday it rebooted again. No error message or anything. No updates. just reboot. Reliability monitor doesn't say what the hell happend. Fortunatly I had saved my work. But this is getting stupid. I have gone through every conceivable setting I know about, yet it still does it. I have killed every process I know of. I despise the unexpected when it comes to computing. I loathe using this dell. It makes my blood boil. because I can't rely on it to not show Doom. I suspect this is turning into a face to face chat thing as compared to attempting to solve the issue on a mail list of PHD's. I have now also put as much money and energy into fixing the damn thing as it originally cost. It's a 10 year old poorly constructed computer with an OS and Hardware made by companies that are infamous lying assholes. Put frankly both Dell and MS are dishonorable scum. MS Ironically looks to be changing that. I'm now in the market for external USB drive, and have no clue which ones are reliable I also have no clue if there's a easy and reliable app for Windows back ups when I last checked on CNET, Tom's Hardware and StackExchange they didn't seem to have much good to say about any of them. On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > I may have missed this: did you do a clean reinstall of the latest? It's a > pain, but getting easier every day with cloud and app stores. > > You need to backup first, naturally, to an external drive. But I think its > generally worth the trouble. > > -- Owen > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Nope it's still rebooting becaus---reasons even after suggesting it redo >> what ever idiot update it seemed to want.All the damn automatic reboot now >> messages I can find are unecked I just want the idiot thing to get throught >> it's head: ask me before rebooting so I don't loose work and don't even >> think about it otherwise. >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Gillian Densmore <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Even though at this point I have little trust in the Del. Reliability >>> monitor shows there's some some kind of hardware issue and one of the >>> updates installed twice. >>> >>> The damn thing infuriates me and the front bit that says dell came off, >>> I doubt it was put together right in the first place. >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Perhaps relevant: >>>> >>>> "My boomerang is home....and the solution was something I'd never heard >>>> of, so there is a chance it will help some of you. >>>> >>>> First: Tried unplugging external drives as suggested. No help. >>>> >>>> Ran chkdsk again. No help. >>>> >>>> Ran memtest66. No help >>>> >>>> Scanned with Dell online hardware troubleshooter (My system is Vestros >>>> 470). Nope >>>> >>>> Uninstalled all MS updates for last 2 months. Nope........At this stage >>>> was still getting freezes, BSOD, log off and shut down stalls. Decided to >>>> try Resource monitor. Couldn't get anything useful (to me, at least) there, >>>> but saw a link to something in my Win7Pro system called*Reliability** >>>> monitor. *Bingo! Showed some problems were Windows ("We're working on >>>> a solution and will get back to you when we find one"), but most were >>>> either the Dell datasafe (included with the system) or a program I had >>>> installed months before and forgotten about because I thought I hadn't >>>> activated it - a firewall call *Glasswire**. *I uninstalled both the >>>> Dell and Glasswire programs, and have been problem free for the last >>>> week...long enough to stop holding my breath. The takeaway here is the >>>> Reliability Monitor may be a good addition to your bag of tricks. Hope it >>>> helps. Thanks again to everyone for the many suggestions. >>>> >>>> Larry Aronberg, DPM" >>>> >>>> --tj >>>> On Nov 18, 2015 10:57 AM, "Gillian Densmore" <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have no idea if the is the mailing list to ask >>>>> >>>>> I have about enough of windows rebooting crashing and being a POS. >>>>> >>>>> Is there anyway to get this crappy os to not insist on rebooting when >>>>> I don't want. Or spamming me with adds about crap I don't want (Java >>>>> updates and 10K spamware) >>>>> It's slower than cerillos traffic and sucking to use to the point that >>>>> I'd rather chuck the damn box off a tall building and hit it with a large >>>>> mallet to the toon of the 1812 Overture.run it over and replace it with >>>>> something that's actually fun and simple to use. >>>>> >>>>> I have checked it's update settings. nothing stands out, the neither >>>>> Avast or MS's Essentials reports malware or rootkits. Seven forums says uh >>>>> just reformat and start over. 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