Rick,
Thanks for the info. It turned out that microsoft has gotten better about
removing all the added patches of late when major products are
removed. When I checked the system the following morning, all of the past
winupdate patches (26) associated with O2K3 were also gone from the
Add/Remove Prgms window of the control panel. And, all the various 'temp'
directories remained clear also. I now have 1.53GB of free space on the OS
hard drive after a few defrags.
Afraid I just do not know how to "clone" yet. Mostly lack of experience
with the hdw and sw.
As this is an OS drive, I do have a detailed list of all sw installed. Plan
is to just 1)xfr the whole scsi system (card and drives) to another (temp)
pc frame, 2)install the pata drive and configure (format, partition,
upgrade, etc.), 3) copy/move the data files back from the temp PC over my
LAN after some period of stabilization. Old way I know, but it has worked
well in the past.
Best,
Duncan
At 20:45 06/20/2008 -0400, Rick Glazier wrote:
IMHO:
I clone first and work on the clone.
If I don't like the results, I format and re-clone, repeat, etc.
I take certain precautions at the same time -- like keeping backups of certain
new things multiple places and storing ALL new mail on the servers.
Anything so I can "re-sync" either drive back to "real time" at will, and
at any time.
(But not continuously.)
Some planning is required to not loose anything, and changing to different
hardware is a complication, but it should be able to be worked around.
Be careful of any "got-chas" that have not appeared on the list.
Rick Glazier
From: "DHSinclair"
Ultimately, I plan to replace this scsi install with a partitioned 80GB
pata drive.
Not sure whether to try and iso the current drive, or, just rebuild from
scratch again on the new hard drive.
