Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 21:19:48 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Catch 22 ?? - Please Advise - Floppy/CD Usage - OS/HD
> Or does Win98SE or later OS's have everything you need on the OS install CD? THe only things you need to install any Microsoft Windows version onto any Libretto are the following: 1) access to the entire \win98 (or \winnt for windows 2000, etc. for other versions) on the original Microsoft Windows CD. It doesn't matter if you can access it from a cD-rom drive, or if you have copied the directory to the hard drive. THe latter is perfered because the install goes much, much faster than accessing the slow CD-ROM drive, and you don't need the CD-ROM in the future for installing typical optional components. 2) the drivers for the version you installed from www.csd.toshiba.com for the Libretto you have. ---- that's it! You can be smart and burn both the \win* directory and \toshiba drivers directory to a single CD-R disc, along with a Symantec.com Ghost backup of a basic WIndows + drivers installation for future recovery and easy access to all you need to restore the Libretto to a perfectly working, freshly installed version of Windows + drivers. (A basic install backup image should just fit a CD-R with file compression turned on in Ghost.) ---- If you have a big enough HD, you can even store a 'backup' image of the c: drive on another partition in addition to a permenant one on CD-R. This way, if anything goes wrong with your boot (windows) partition, you can try to quickly restore it on-the-road directly from the backup copy on the other partition (assuming whatever virus, problem, etc. wasn't SO bad that it nuked the entire HD) before trying to dig out the CD-ROM drive, load drivers, and restore from the CD-R backup. This can save you time and let you restore quickly if anything happens to the Libretto. Note also, if you do this, then you can easily 'restore' the primary Windows partition back to the perfectly working state every month (or however often you wish) right back to the perfectly working, freshly installed Windows system you had at first. This way, if you've been using your system heavily and it's becoming unstable or messed up, you go right back to no-problems and perfectly-working after a quick system restore from the backup sitting on the other partition. (Naturally, you would save all of your documents and user files during normal use to the other partition(s) -- eg. D: drive -- so that when you do restore the c: drive, nothing of importance gets erased.) --- Here, I've got that and have had to restore the C: drive only once in many years of use on my L110, and it's so nice to be running a perfectly working system that never crashes or bugs out on me (because I've restored to a perfectly installed and working system, and also because I've installed everything at once and made sure it was perfectly stable before using the Libretto). The key here is to make sure you install WIndows + drivers + applications + latest updates and patches + settings changes in that order at once on a freshly formatted system, then back it up. That way, it practically ensures a rock solid system that will never/hardly ever crash. Most users install applications as they go, so the result after many years is a system that is unstable, slow and crashes a lot. ===== adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains � Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
