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On 9/9/13 2:29 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 07:58:37 -0400, HankÂ©
wrote:

Rebuilding clears the registry and gets rid of other nasty boogers that
contaminate Windows.

That is true and I do it now and then but I want to do it on my
schedule, not at the whim of a bad hard drive.

Actually a better plan is to create a drive image of the machine when
it is running great and use that as a starting point.
I try to keep my C: pretty small so that image is a reasonable size,
spinning on my backup.
You can use a bootable CD to restore that from the backup.
I like Drive Wizard. (Used to be MaxBlast) As long as you have a
Seagate or Maxtor drive somewhere in the system it will run. It
doesn't even have to be a working drive, it just needs to report.

Ahh, the infamous Windoze "Registry." Something I do not miss, along
with those inexplicable BSOD.

I keep the drive on my iMac around 80% empty. Every program I have, and
I have a lot of them, fits within 200 gigabytes, along with all their
data. I keep movies, music, large *.PDFs and photos on my little server.
It took about 100 minutes Saturday to "restore" the new drive in my iMac
and once I invoked the command, there was nothing else I had to do. When
I came back to the machine, everything, and I mean everything, was back
where it was supposed to be, with all data, passwords, whatever, intact,
waiting for me to log in. Unless the Windoze restore procedure has been
upgraded, I was never able to do a restore so easily with the Microsoft OS.

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