The AMD-iville Horror - Transcript

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David Lawrence: You work at your home. So what I would do is I would get two of them and one of them at all times is away from your home because what happens is your planning as we talk about in 10 Quick Steps to perfect back ups you are planning for disaster. Hoping for the best but planning for disaster and so if disaster strikes let us say there is a flood or a fire or a book case comes down and crushes your desk and breaks you know it could affect to the back up drive as well if it sitting right next to it, right. So you don*t want that to be the case. What you are looking to do I think is do double duty with the back up drive as your main boot drive and that you don*t want to do you can*t do that. So what I would is I would back everything up as you have on to the Maxtor and then I will take my computer up to the store and buy a $50 hard drive which will be ten times the size that you have now. If all you got on there is 20 megs you can get a 200 gig hard or a 20 gigs. You can get a 200 gig hard drive for 200 bucks you can get an 80 gig hard drive for $50.

Arnold: So you mean to say that I buy an internal hard drive and install it and then.

David Lawrence: Yeah or have them install it whatever you want to do and then come back

Arnold: Yeah I can*t install it.

David Lawrence: And then come back and restore all the stuff that you have backed up using Retrospect in reverse because that*s what comes on the Maxtor is Retrospect. Just use Do the Restore and restore it all back on, on to the new larger hard drive and you know there just get the largest hard drive you can comfortably afford. An 80 gig will do you just find and it will still be able to be backed up incrementally for a long time on that 200 gig Maxtor that you create that you have done.

Arnold: And when I bought when I buy these things on a hard drive I don*t have to put the CD for restoration of my old Windows 98 with the XP.

David Lawrence: No, no, no you just flow all of the data back on in what*s called the recover or restore function not on your computer but with Retrospect. Read up on that before you do it so you know what you need to start it will build a little boot disk for you and it will take care but that way but that*s what you want to do and you are going to find your machine runs a lot faster too because it will all be loaded on in the most pristine way possible.

Arnold: Okay.

David Lawrence: Okay so enjoy.

Arnold: Okay thanks a lot.

David Lawrence: And I appreciate the call. Dave 180039 online Dave how can I help you sir?

Dave: Well I guess I am kind of in the same boat as that the last caller and I have got a 20 gig Compaq and then I guess its 90 or 901 megahertz and Check one processor you are going to may be 4 mega byte of Ram and

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