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BobC
Get this… I had used the Create Snapshot option off the Control Centre Maintenance tab, and then used the Create Live-USB option off the Disks tab to make a backup weekly as I always do. I have a half dozen 4 gb flashdrives and I just use them in rotation a different one each week.
Ok, it died. Stuff happens. I have another laptop, right? Ok, but this is not the same brand, its a Dell, 15 inch with I7 processors and UEFI boot with Windows 10 and an SSD and memory out the wazoo, and 3840×2160 nVidia/Intel video, not like the old HP with an AMD processor and the Vista it came with it way back when. And ALL the software I’ve loaded since then, OMG! That’s a hopeless scenario…
Of course, having been around since my first DOS and Windows system software and/or hardware failures for 30 or 40 years, we all know it will be a week to get back running normally, right? And I’d need to buy upgrades and get keys and all sorts of silly stuff…
Well, It was under 1 hr and half of that was trying to pick which partition to erase to load it into!!!!! It even remembered my login here and WHAT WEB PAGES I HAD OPEN ON SATURDAY, and what FOLDERS and what FILES I had open, at what LINE!!!
I did have to change the stupid screen resolution and type in the boot cheat codes this silly video needs, but that’s such a small price to pay.
Whoever wrote that Create Snapshot and Create Live-USB stuff deserves a round of applause!!!
Brian Masinick
Amen to that BobC! What a great example of how we have great free software right in our midst!
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Brian Masinick
eriefisher
Was the first laptop a 64bit? That may be the only drawback to a hardware upgrade in this manner.
eriefisher
That’s a good point. I would guess that you couldn’t go from a 64 bit machine to a 32 bit one. Luckily I didn’t have that problem.
I have seen so many terrible messes from drive failures in the past that I was just shocked that I was able to get up and running as quickly as that without even needing to ask anyone for help.
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