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Sid Elbow wrote: On 5/4/2012 6:59 PM, Buffalo wrote: Yep, I have a backup to an external HDD. But, I only have one HDD in my PC and it is a dual boot 98se-win2k system and I would really hate to screw it up. I am not familar enough with doing a complete deletion and format of just one partition to justify possibly screwing up my whole system. Respectfully, Buffalo ... just an observation, if you have that little confidence in your backup/restore process then you really don't have a reliable backup system. It would be worth addressing that as soon as you can, quite apart from your other problems. I have many OS partitions on many machines, all backed up (though perhaps not as up-to-date as they should be in some cases). I wouldn't think twice about wiping a partition for a re-install with a view to a possible later restore. You're probably right. I have never restored anything off an external USB HDD, but I once used my Ghost image to restore my C: partition and it worked like a charm. Course, it was on a partition on the same HDD. At least now I have it backed up on an external USB HDD. I'm glad you reminded my to look up on how to use that backup. Damn, I may need it sooner than I think. Thanks again, Buffalo PS: I don't think I am the only person in the world that has that problem with the AGP GeForce 7600GT 256MB vid card and Win2000ProSP4. |
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Buffalo wrote:
Sid Elbow wrote: On 5/4/2012 6:59 PM, Buffalo wrote: Yep, I have a backup to an external HDD. But, I only have one HDD in my PC and it is a dual boot 98se-win2k system and I would really hate to screw it up. I am not familar enough with doing a complete deletion and format of just one partition to justify possibly screwing up my whole system. Respectfully, Buffalo ... just an observation, if you have that little confidence in your backup/restore process then you really don't have a reliable backup system. It would be worth addressing that as soon as you can, quite apart from your other problems. I have many OS partitions on many machines, all backed up (though perhaps not as up-to-date as they should be in some cases). I wouldn't think twice about wiping a partition for a re-install with a view to a possible later restore. You're probably right. I have never restored anything off an external USB HDD, but I once used my Ghost image to restore my C: partition and it worked like a charm. Course, it was on a partition on the same HDD. At least now I have it backed up on an external USB HDD. I'm glad you reminded my to look up on how to use that backup. Damn, I may need it sooner than I think. Thanks again, Buffalo PS: I don't think I am the only person in the world that has that problem with the AGP GeForce 7600GT 256MB vid card and Win2000ProSP4. I've had problems on Win2K before, but it was because I didn't remove the old drivers, before installing new ones. The machine had a Matrox card at one time, an ATI, and finally an NVidia, and the drivers were a mess. In particular, an inspection showed after Add/Remove of ATI driver, there were still ATI files in the system. What eventually happened, is I could no longer get accelerated video to work (no gaming), no matter what I did with drivers. I had to reload the OS and start from scratch. Worked fine after that. Moral of the story was - need "much hygiene" with regard to video card drivers. I even tried all the available "driver cleaners" at the time (like ones stored on guru3d). I couldn't figure out, what exactly was broken. Paul |
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Paul wrote: Buffalo wrote: Sid Elbow wrote: On 5/4/2012 6:59 PM, Buffalo wrote: Yep, I have a backup to an external HDD. But, I only have one HDD in my PC and it is a dual boot 98se-win2k system and I would really hate to screw it up. I am not familar enough with doing a complete deletion and format of just one partition to justify possibly screwing up my whole system. Respectfully, Buffalo ... just an observation, if you have that little confidence in your backup/restore process then you really don't have a reliable backup system. It would be worth addressing that as soon as you can, quite apart from your other problems. I have many OS partitions on many machines, all backed up (though perhaps not as up-to-date as they should be in some cases). I wouldn't think twice about wiping a partition for a re-install with a view to a possible later restore. You're probably right. I have never restored anything off an external USB HDD, but I once used my Ghost image to restore my C: partition and it worked like a charm. Course, it was on a partition on the same HDD. At least now I have it backed up on an external USB HDD. I'm glad you reminded my to look up on how to use that backup. Damn, I may need it sooner than I think. Thanks again, Buffalo PS: I don't think I am the only person in the world that has that problem with the AGP GeForce 7600GT 256MB vid card and Win2000ProSP4. I've had problems on Win2K before, but it was because I didn't remove the old drivers, before installing new ones. The machine had a Matrox card at one time, an ATI, and finally an NVidia, and the drivers were a mess. In particular, an inspection showed after Add/Remove of ATI driver, there were still ATI files in the system. What eventually happened, is I could no longer get accelerated video to work (no gaming), no matter what I did with drivers. I had to reload the OS and start from scratch. Worked fine after that. Moral of the story was - need "much hygiene" with regard to video card drivers. I even tried all the available "driver cleaners" at the time (like ones stored on guru3d). I couldn't figure out, what exactly was broken. Paul I did have ATI drivers before this card (8500LE) and I did uninstall and also used an ATI driver cleaner and a search for anything ATI, in files and in the Registry. I think you're probably correct that something is amiss in my Win2K system. I don't believe that I will do a clean install of my OS since my backup was made after the problem started and I have a lot of programs I would have to reinstall if I did it, Thanks again for your thoughtful input. Buffalo PS: If you can think of something else, let me know. PPS:It is extremely difficult to install new (different) drivers as the display gets so corrupted when I remove the previous drivers and reboot.The display tears so bad when I move the mouse pointer that it is almost like doing it blindly and from memory. It didn't do that when I uninstalled the ATI drivers and rebooted to install the GeForce drivers the first time. |
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On 5/4/2012 11:02 PM, Buffalo wrote:
You're probably right. I have never restored anything off an external USB HDD, but I once used my Ghost image to restore my C: partition and it worked like a charm. Course, it was on a partition on the same HDD. Risky ... if that HD dies everything's gone. If you are backing up on the same machine, at least use a second HD. At least now I have it backed up on an external USB HDD. Yes, that's what I do and I do it with a Ghost DOS boot disc (mini-cd). On some machines, the BIOS USB driver won't work with my version of Ghost so I have to force Ghost to use its own but that works well enough. I also use Ghost's "check image file" on each backup after I make it - wouldn't want to need to restore it and find that it's junk! |
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On 5/5/2012 10:18 AM, Buffalo wrote:
I don't believe that I will do a clean install of my OS since my backup was made after the problem started and I have a lot of programs I would have to reinstall if I did it, That's a common viewpoint and obviously it's your call but it can be very rewarding to bite the bullet and most people who do so are glad they did. I don't think it's an option that should be dismissed lightly. It does need a bit of forethought and planning-ahead such as: - gather all required drivers (latest versions) - review your apps and determine which ones you want to keep (I'd be surprised if you didn't find that half of them were unnecessary) - prioritise the remaining apps into stuff that has to be installed immediately; those that can be installed over a few days; those that can be installed "as required". - if you can, put all of the drivers and apps onto a single cd/dvd (that really helps). You'll probably lose the system for a day or so but when you finish you'll have a "new" system - much cleaner and "perkier" than before. Another possibility if you have the room is to create another partition and do the fresh install in that while keeping the working original in a multi-boot system. Does my bias show? :-) (Sorry - probably teaching my grandmother to suck eggs). |
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Sid Elbow wrote: On 5/5/2012 10:18 AM, Buffalo wrote: I don't believe that I will do a clean install of my OS since my backup was made after the problem started and I have a lot of programs I would have to reinstall if I did it, That's a common viewpoint and obviously it's your call but it can be very rewarding to bite the bullet and most people who do so are glad they did. I don't think it's an option that should be dismissed lightly. It does need a bit of forethought and planning-ahead such as: - gather all required drivers (latest versions) - review your apps and determine which ones you want to keep (I'd be surprised if you didn't find that half of them were unnecessary) - prioritise the remaining apps into stuff that has to be installed immediately; those that can be installed over a few days; those that can be installed "as required". - if you can, put all of the drivers and apps onto a single cd/dvd (that really helps). You'll probably lose the system for a day or so but when you finish you'll have a "new" system - much cleaner and "perkier" than before. Another possibility if you have the room is to create another partition and do the fresh install in that while keeping the working original in a multi-boot system. Does my bias show? :-) (Sorry - probably teaching my grandmother to suck eggs). If I do go through the trouble of formatting and a clean install, I believe I will just install XP Home instead of Win2KProSP4. Then, if that is successful, I may well just get rid of my 98SE and change partition sizes. Thanks again, Buffalo |
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Buffalo wrote:
Paul wrote: I did have ATI drivers before this card (8500LE) and I did uninstall and also used an ATI driver cleaner and a search for anything ATI, in files and in the Registry. I think you're probably correct that something is amiss in my Win2K system. I don't believe that I will do a clean install of my OS since my backup was made after the problem started and I have a lot of programs I would have to reinstall if I did it, Thanks again for your thoughtful input. The thing is the amount of time you've already spent trying to fix this you could have done a clean install and reloaded all your essential progs, You can always make the job a lot eadier in future if you keep a copy of all your 'prog install exe' files you download from in a single folder (eg Downloads). Then it's just a matter of systematically going through each one to restore your software. Of course if you have a few hundred plus downloaded progs, it's going to take a while, but you don't have to do it all at once. |
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On 5/5/2012 10:00 AM, Sid Elbow wrote:
On 5/5/2012 10:18 AM, Buffalo wrote: [snip] Another possibility if you have the room is to create another partition and do the fresh install in that while keeping the working original in a multi-boot system. I have sufficient room to create another partition, but no instructions for how to do it when it requires first shrinking the C: partition. Using 64-bit Windows Vista. |
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