On 12/10/11 19:21, Martin N wrote:
Lo,
At 22:38 10/12/2011, you wrote:
On 12/10/11 16:46, Martin N wrote:
Lo,
While googling around for information on the t60 hard drive i have come
across this "
2nd Hard Disk Drive Adapter for Ultrabay Slim
snip
Right--the 2nd disk is seen as just another disk. I have only seen a
problem talking to
it via some incredibly strange "clever" software that tried talking
directly to the disk
controller, bypassing Windows completely. It was subsequently changed.
Can you name the software or at least what type it was ie imaging
recovery etc?
This was a proprietary program, written by someone in a company that I'd
been
doing some consulting. A "'wizard" there showed me the code to "more
quickly"
move data from their laptops to their central machine, which turned out
to have
horrid problems, edge case problems where certain sized files got
munged. It was
awful. The program was shot, and the programmer should have been, as well.
So yes you can run imaging software. But let me offer a thought, one
that almost
no one agrees with me on. If you are running Windows, you don't want
to move
things wholesale--you want to completely build up from a disk format.
Why? Because
then you aren't moving damaged/weird registry entries, the flotsam of
useless tmp
files, and hidden viri that your AV software hasn't yet caught.
Reinstalling from
scratch gives you as much of a pristine Windows as possible. That's
why I like the
recovery partition system so well--it gets you back to a known state
of things. You
are trusting Lenovo to create a clean system, true, but I've not seen
them screw
that up.
I understand what you are saying and a new hard drive can be seen as
an oputunity
for a clean start to avoid windows rot.
However this laptop was new to me in the last couple of months so not
even Microsoft
can self destruct an OS that badly in such a short period of time.
Sadly, that is not the case. I have had faculty trash Windows within a
weekend of
getting a new system. Time matters not when dealing with malware.
MS isn't as much of a problem now as before. It's where you go, and
what kind of
things are handed to you in the form of things like Flash or other exploits.
Martin N
Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of
MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups
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