[TowerTalk] About K8RI and reinstalling OS and programs

[Patrick Greenlee]

Good call Roger, I have Acronis on 3 machines.  I also have W10 on two 
of them.  So far so good.  I declined using "The Cloud Drive." As I 
recall it is a freebie introductory offer and later you will pay and pay 
and pay lather rinse repeat...  W10 isn't the real issue nor the cloud 
drive.  The killer is basically being captive to what MS has in store 
for our pocketbooks down the line a ways and likely not all  that far.

Patrick        NJ5G

On 8/27/2015 7:26 AM, WK1W-Ivan Shapiro wrote:
> ROGER, K8RI wrote:
> 	
> I mentioned this one is flaky and I suspected the OS, so I took
> advantage of the free upgrade to Win 10. A fast, easy, and trouble free
> upgrade.  Unfortunately after 10 days, I can truly say with conviction!
> "I do not like Win 10" and particularly using "one drive" in the cloud
> for searches on my machines (and servers), so it's back to square one
> and a complete install of Win 7 U and all other applications.
>
> I am writing this to share my experience (though off-topic of towers).
> Over the years with computer crashes I have spent much time reinstalling OS
> and programs, though data were backed up to an external drive.  Finally, I
> will no longer have to do this.  A tech from DELL told me about the backup
> software, ACRONIS.
>
> I bought their program (which you can try and buy if you like it) ACRONIS
> BACKUP 11.5.  Not only does it backup everything, but it has you make
> "BOOTABLE MEDIA".  If you have a big crash the bootable media will boot
> (even though your OS might be corrupted) and will find the OS, programs,
> data etc., and rebuild your system for you.  Of course, you should store the
> backup externally.  I bought a 5 TB drive for $129.00 and use it for
> backups.  If your comkputer is phsyically dead (like lightjihngn strike or
> nwhatever) you can takenwhat nthey ncall a "bare metal computer" (i.e.
> another blank one) and boot witgh bootable mjedia and nput neveryhting
> (WINDOWS and programs and data) on it.  I liked the programk mso much that I
> bought another license for mjy laptop. Tech support is fabulous. And  after
> proper setup it does it automatically according to programmed instructions.
> No longer will I have to spend days reconstructing my computer.  Good luck
> to all
>
> 73
> Ivan Shapiro
> WK1W
>
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