Full Version: PC too full?

From: Upacreek [#19]
 21 Feb 2006
To: logojohn [#18] 21 Feb 2006

I'm not fluent with Acronis, but I used to use Ghost and Drive Image quite a bit.

Drive Image is capable of working over a network or on different drives provided you configure the right settings. Many times I would just boot a machine with a floppy with TCP/IP parameters and grab images from a central location on the network or from a specific server that stored images.

I haven't used Ghost as much as I did 5 years ago, but last time I used the newer version a year ago, I could have sworn I could get it to recognize an external drive as long as the right drivers were installed.

Michel

From: Bieb (HABIEB) [#20]
 17 Mar 2006
To: Upacreek [#19] 17 Mar 2006

You can ghost to various "external" media. I have used it to create a set of image CD's. I am sure you can write to an external hard drive.

If you are using the MS backup that comes with WinXP, be careful to pay attention to what you are including in the backup. I have seen the .bkf file reach more than 20gb, which is great if you are moving it to an external drive, but you can not move it to any other media at that size.

Harold

From: Upacreek [#21]
 17 Mar 2006
To: Bieb (HABIEB) [#20] 18 Mar 2006

quote:
You can ghost to various "external" media. I have used it to create a set of image CD's. I am sure you can write to an external hard drive.


Ahhh, so my memory did serve me right! Thanks for confirming my suspicion.

Michel

From: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#22]
 17 Mar 2006
To: Cody (BOBTNAILER) [#1] 18 Mar 2006

Cody,

No such thing as an ignorant question.

Several things will make a computer run slower. TOO much crap on the hard drive. A drive that is fragmented. SPYWARE will slow down a drive. A corrupt registery.


Too much stuff? Copy what you don't need ON the drive to a cd.

Fragmented? Defrag. XP has a pretty decent utility.


Spyware? PCTools (available for download) has a great program to monitor and delete spyware. The same company also has a program called "Registery Mechanic". I use both and have had no problems. After running registery mechanic, I DID see a noticable difference in performance.

However as I have been told, and as someone has said, the best thing to do is to reformat your hard drive at least ONCE a year and re-install. But of course you will back up or copy any important files to a cd or alternative drive or tape drive.

I hope this helps.

It was great to meet you in Vegas. I'm sorry we did not have more time to chat

From: Gary White (GARYWHITE) [#23]
 22 Aug 2006
To: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#22] 22 Aug 2006

There is a chance your comptuer would be slowed down by a lack of hard drive space, your computer uses free hard drive space as something called a swap file. Think of it as RAM (you probably have 128, 256, or 512MB of it) on your hard drive. The amount of hard drive space your computer allocates as swap space is inverse to the overall power of the computer. If it's an older one it will use more than if it's a newer one. Try deleting your temporary internet files in IE, if you've never done that before it could get you a couple hundred megs or more. Try to get yourself around a gig of free space and I bet you will see (at least some of) your problems melt away. Delete some files you don't use anymore, or invest in an external hard drive and move some of your data from your current hard drive to the external one.

From: UncleSteve [#24]
 22 Aug 2006
To: Gary White (GARYWHITE) [#23] 22 Aug 2006

And depending on the actual O/S being run, the number of installed fonts can drag it to a crawl since they are all loaded at the same time.

Any fontaholics onboard? ;-) 

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