J Gigabyte G33M-DS2R with Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz, Win XP Pro Did this about 6 months ago
N > ok, so lets get back to the orignal question :-) > > what m/boards people using? the gigabit boards look res. feature rich. > I will be going with an intel CPU this time....as I did last time as > it happens. > > Jeremy > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [DUG-Offtopic] new PC > From: "John Bird" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, March 30, 2009 10:50 am > To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List" > <[email protected]> > > Rather than RAID I tend to take a more minimal approach - reliable > laptop, > no RAID, and image the entire HD to an external disk regularly. > Can use > Acronis, Ghost, or Drive Snapshot. > > I figure the downtime replacing a single HD in a lpatop is going > to be a > few hours minimum no matter how its done. > > Note the interesting part is restoring drive C if needed, I use a > WAIK boot > DVD to do that. Works very well, only trick is that Microsoft make > it as > difficult as possible to get this free dowload because they don't > want too > many to get hold of it obviously. But its the best way I know to > easily > access external disks if your HD windows is stuffed, or need to > reinstall > working windows over a factory image recovery. > > (The steps are roughly: > 1 - find the download > 2 - download a disk image 990MB > 3 - Burn to a DVD/CD > 4 - run the DVD installer to install WAIK > 5 - use arcane command line options to create a bootable command > line Vista > DVD > > simple really... > > ). > > > John > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > Unsubscribe: send an email to > [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
