Well the day finally came. I bought Tiffany her own computer for her birthday. It's one of those fangled Sony Vaio's with a Core 2 and some 3GB of ram and some type of SATA hard dealy.. But what now? Well, I'm glad you asked. Now I get started with the greuling task of creating an image of my current windows install. Why not just copy over what I need and leave the rest alone? I'll tell you why: I want to preserve this image. This has been a good image, and if shit hits the fan, I want to be able to come back to it at the drop of a hat. Eventually, I'm going to place this image on another hard drive, or possibly this current one. That didn't make sense, so let me lay it all out for you:
I currently have three drives: 160GB, 300GB, and 1TB, or 1000GB (sounds much larger :p).
160GB: Currently houses my operating system and all of my worldly programs.
300GB: Holds all of my music, random internet downloads, and pending/yet-to-be-sorted torrents.
1000GB: All of my movies, shows, and large applications.
What's clear is that I am going to be making an image of the 160GB and storing that away. I am ashamed to admit that I am going to be putting the image on DVD's (waits for Ben to make a comment...) I have a very good reason for that: I have no space on any of my drives. If I had (and could) dedicate a 1TB or 2TB strictly for backing up, I wouldn't even think about using optical media, but alas, I do not. So for that reason I am succumbing to optical media.
So after I make the image, I am going to format the drive and install both linux and a clean install of windows. Then after I gather up the resources to purchase a new fangled 1TB, I am going to move everything up one, the 160GB will remain my linux install, and the 300GB will be my new vista and every-game-possible install. The now 1TB will be used for accessory storage of movies and shows. I can't wait until I get a free day, me and Jake are going to tear it up Ubuntu style!
I currently have three drives: 160GB, 300GB, and 1TB, or 1000GB (sounds much larger :p).
160GB: Currently houses my operating system and all of my worldly programs.
300GB: Holds all of my music, random internet downloads, and pending/yet-to-be-sorted torrents.
1000GB: All of my movies, shows, and large applications.
What's clear is that I am going to be making an image of the 160GB and storing that away. I am ashamed to admit that I am going to be putting the image on DVD's (waits for Ben to make a comment...) I have a very good reason for that: I have no space on any of my drives. If I had (and could) dedicate a 1TB or 2TB strictly for backing up, I wouldn't even think about using optical media, but alas, I do not. So for that reason I am succumbing to optical media.
So after I make the image, I am going to format the drive and install both linux and a clean install of windows. Then after I gather up the resources to purchase a new fangled 1TB, I am going to move everything up one, the 160GB will remain my linux install, and the 300GB will be my new vista and every-game-possible install. The now 1TB will be used for accessory storage of movies and shows. I can't wait until I get a free day, me and Jake are going to tear it up Ubuntu style!
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FUCK yeah, we bustin' caps an' formattin' hard drives, OG UNIX gangsta style.
By the way, when you described the process, I got the Jurassic Park music in my head. Epic.
lol optical media. on another note, I've been awake for 36 hours
Yay college!
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