Gregory,

<< Thanks for the update. I guess you've been pretty busy! >>

Yeah, and the worst part was that I was caught up completely until the
crash.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Farshad,

<< I recommend ignoring XE and using D2011 instead.  >>

I might do that if the time-frame is too long on changing the system around.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

<< "Tim Young [Elevate Software]" wrote:

Yeah, and the worst part was that I was caught up completely until the
crash. >>

I'm guessing RAID will be in order once you rebuild

I've been personally using the (software) RAID that comes with most modern motherboards and have lived thru couple of drive failures in the past 4 years with no down-time or data loss.

Good luck.

Raul

Raul

>I've been personally using the (software) RAID that comes with most modern motherboards and have lived thru couple of drive failures in the past 4 years with no down-time or data loss.

I run notebooks - the only tower is my wife's Dell slimline. Any idea how that can be made to work with notebooks?

Roy Lambert

<< Roy Lambert wrote:

I run notebooks - the only tower is my wife's Dell slimline. Any idea how that can be made to work with notebooks? >>

Roy,

There are couple of ways i can think of. However, since you need 2 drives you need to have a laptop that is capable of 2 internal drives. I would attempt this with removable drive. Most business grade ones allow that but might require you to sacrifice a CD drive as they use teh same bay. Then you can use either Windows built-in- RAID or something like Intel Matrix Storage software (if your laptop chipset and bios support it). Windows software RAID is limited to business editions i think.

My other suggestion is just to make lots of backups at partition level - i backup my laptop most nights using the Acronis disk imaging. There are other good free products out there like DriveImage XML (http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm) that while not protecting you from failure let you recover in approx 30-40 min (+time to get new drive).

Finally I've been moving my dev environments to virtual machines (vmware) over the last few years so my main "dev computers" are simply folders of approx 20GB each that i can run on any machine i want using the free player product. Also use subversion (or similar) for source control and now you can work on anything with very little setup time.

I'm sure others have suggestions as well.

Raul

Typo in prev post : i meant "I would NOT attempt this with a removable drive."

Raul

Raul

>My other suggestion is just to make lots of backups at partition level - i backup my laptop most nights using the Acronis disk imaging. There are other good free products out there like DriveImage XML (http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm) that while not protecting you from failure let you recover in approx 30-40 min (+time to get new drive).

That's essentially what I do. I switched from Norton to Acronis when I went to Vista.

Roy Lambert

<Raul> wrote in message
news:2DD4365D-EC47-42E8-AD83-F3CC5FEA69B4@news.elevatesoft.com...
> << Roy Lambert wrote:
>

Thanks for the info. What is the process for restoring using Acronis?

Robert

< "Robert K" wrote:
Thanks for the info. What is the process for restoring using Acronis?
>

Robert,

They provide a bootable ISO image that has drivers for most disk interfaces, including (S)ATA and USB. So assuming you have done a backup to a removable drive (e.g. external USB) you just connect the drive, boot from CD and then a wizard walks you thru the restore. Last time i did this it took me approx 40 min to have everything back (most of the time was taken for just copying the data since USB2 is relatively slow).

Other disk imaging products use a similar method - idea is to do a bare-metal restore using a bootable cd or usb stick.

Raul

Robert


>Thanks for the info. What is the process for restoring using Acronis?

Select the menu option, click, select the archive, click, make cup of tea, drink, start working again

Roy Lambert