On Jan 6, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Bruce Ryan wrote: > My penance will be 3 days of backing up, nuking and paving then reinstalling > and restoring my dad's XP box next week. He's managed to hose the OS > **again**. Oh for a PC equivalent of CarbonCopyCloner. I could do the > installation with the seemingly endless software updates, then keep a > known-good installation on an external HD. >
Be aware this is not from personal experience... There is this: <http://www.xxclone.com/iproduct.htm> The free personal version will do what you want, allegedly. There's a linux-based utility called Clonezilla: <http://www.clonezilla.org/> That'll also do what you want. It sounds a lot more complicated than it is. It's no CarbonCopyCloner, but it'll do all sorts of useful things. I've had good luck recently using this website to find things like this: <http://alternativeto.net/> I'll use this to find the names of programs, then go google those to find others like them, and see what people using them have to say... > If I recall correctly, Bruce, you had examples of why formatted emails are > **BAD**. Could you either repost them or send them on to me directly so I can > show my dad the nasties that can lurk in email, please? <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/ihatehtmlmail.pdf> <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/whyIhatehtmlmailno3455.png> And it's too bad he's not running a Mac; ClamXAv has gotten pretty good at flagging that phishy stuff that I get one one of my email accounts. Irony of ironies (or perhaps not) it's all the Microsoft-hosted BPOS account from our UA central mail service...reason 4,876 I'm so grateful that we run our own email servers here at the College. OUR server catch all the spam and viruses. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
