BigPapaDean Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 1128 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1199 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6528 Content Per Day: 1.25 Reputation: 4407 Achievement Points: 63435 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 08:54 AM Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Share Posted August 4, 2012 I remember the old days of formatting my hard drive where when you did it you lost all existing files in it. Well this afternoon while talking with Larson on xfire and trying to figure out what my pc probs are he told me I may have to reformat my hard drive. I didn't like the sound of that at all, so he looked up and found the following link that explains how you can do it and not loose anything! Now all I have to do is drag and drop files I want to back-up. This saved me hours of work and I am grateful for sure! http://technet.micro...e/gg309170.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Xtreme Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 3095 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 188 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 115 Achievement Points: 1277 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 10, 2013 Birthday: 02/14/1963 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Windows drive manager has been around since Windows 2000. You can only create a partition if you have unpartitioned space. Most of the time, there's no unpart. space left on a drive if it was setup properly to begin with. An even better way is to use a second hard drive, an external hard drive, a USB flash drive or simply burn an optical disk. You should have your data backed up anyway! Cavey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage_inc- Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.37 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted August 4, 2012 partitioning Ive learned blows.I wish I could easily remove all partitions for free.Its a pain in the arse to do it then your always moving shit around because the partitions tend to get full and everything wants to go to C drive anyways so your always moving shit out of c to somewhere else...Next time no partitions and just get the 500gb or 1tb drive .Tchnology has come along way and is at a point you dont really need to partition now for the normal person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
simplemod Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Partitions work great, and most programs give you the option to install on another drive. I always have 4 partitions on my computer, one for windows and productivity and such type software, one for games, and game related software, one for music and videos, and one for whatever. throwing everything on one partition is confusing to me, as it looks unorganized. it also seems to help things run faster and smoother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavey Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Share Posted August 4, 2012 NAS (Network Access Storage) drives. I'm getting a 4TB RAID1 NAS drive, and it works a treat, brilliant with the number of machines in our house. Also comes with encryption. Best thing since sliced bread This is the bad boy I'm getting: http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/9515953/art/iomega/storcenter-ix2-200-networ.html simplemod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Labob Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8274 Content Per Day: 1.54 Reputation: 5988 Achievement Points: 53676 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted August 4, 2012 nas is sweet been using a dlink 323 for a couple of years now . Its almost full too time for an 8 terrabite weeeeee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
SGTDANKO Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 3214 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 27 Topic Count: 206 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 2362 Content Per Day: 0.53 Reputation: 50 Achievement Points: 14004 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/21/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/23/1981 Share Posted August 4, 2012 I remember the old days of formatting my hard drive where when you did it you lost all existing files in it. Well this afternoon while talking with Larson on xfire and trying to figure out what my pc probs are he told me I may have to reformat my hard drive. I didn't like the sound of that at all, so he looked up and found the following link that explains how you can do it and not loose anything! Now all I have to do is drag and drop files I want to back-up. This saved me hours of work and I am grateful for sure! http://technet.micro...e/gg309170.aspx gotta love >xi< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobodygood>XI< Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 219 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 492 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 108 Achievement Points: 2906 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 2, 2018 Birthday: 04/28/1957 Share Posted August 4, 2012 I found that formatting with windows if you want a fully clean disk ( even if you re-partition), will not do it. there are some files Microsoft saves and this has caused me trouble in the past. So now when I want to blow everything off a drive, I use 3rd party software. You ever have an install issue that no matter how many times you try and format, re-partition and re-install you get the same crap? Well if you do, don't format using the windows disk, you will be beating your head against the wall. Try getting some disk tools on-line and format using a 3rd party tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Merlin007 Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1076 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8444 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7318 Achievement Points: 75031 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Android Share Posted August 4, 2012 I have my hard drive partitioned once. C for OS and installed programs and D for all my personal files and certain files backed up from C so when I run a back up, I simply back up D. I have 2 HP ProLiant servers running in my basement so everyone in my home backs their stuff up to their own space on the server. Backups are important these days with so much information being kept electronic, some of which, who cares if you loose, and others such as family photos that are irreplaceable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
hxtr Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted August 4, 2012 I have my hard drive partitioned once. C for OS and installed programs and D for all my personal files and certain files backed up from C so when I run a back up, I simply back up D. I have 2 HP ProLiant servers running in my basement so everyone in my home backs their stuff up to their own space on the server. Backups are important these days with so much information being kept electronic, some of which, who cares if you loose, and others such as family photos that are irreplaceable. What are the model of your Proliants? I would love to get an old DL380. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) Windows drive manager has been around since Windows 2000. You can only create a partition if you have unpartitioned space. Most of the time, there's no unpart. space left on a drive if it was setup properly to begin with. An even better way is to use a second hard drive, an external hard drive, a USB flash drive or simply burn an optical disk. You should have your data backed up anyway! I have not read all responses.. you can make a partition in a partition with Partition Magic and other products. But not sure I would want to do that. Dean? You cant get one more dirve or you dont have one for backups? Not sure what all was said here but.. I like one drive C: one partition C: and an external for when backups that are needed. I have 172GB of music. It is very hard to protect that without more than one copy. That being the most important and biggest information..... i have 3 copies. If you only have one drive.. you will be saying goodbye to all your shit one of these days. Get a new drive and once you get your system up and running.. I will walk you through mirroring your new load on your PC to the old drive then when you fuck it up.. just backup changed data and Mirror the other drive back and your up and running. I keep an spare drive in my PC unplugged with a fresh load of my PC with everything installed and setup to a point Im happy with. This is what I use.. if you dont think you need this... your wrong. lol This dvd or cd bootable has lots of great tools. You want see if you pc works.. boot of it and run windows xp. If that works your pc works. Mirror adjust partitions, fix virus, drive tools all here. This to me is gold in software. It was very hard to find.. replacing my Tech182 bootable. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/89431228/Tools/Multi-Boot.iso Edited August 4, 2012 by hxtr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaRSin Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 45 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 68 Topic Count: 981 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 9034 Content Per Day: 1.68 Reputation: 3561 Achievement Points: 65966 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 11 hours ago Birthday: 02/25/1951 Device: Windows Share Posted August 4, 2012 I'm firm believer in partitioning a hard drive , If you running your operating system from that drive , Just think have to format a 1,2, or 3 Tera byte drive and losing all your files ,Or just run your operating system from a SSD drive ,even better. Not everyone has a backup , And if your get a nasty virus and just need to to reinstall windows ,then all is not lost , makes life a lot easier, And yes a nas in my future , I have usb backup now , But Nas drive is better and faster , Then I can use it for movies as well. Cavey, simplemod and hxtr 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BurnnBright Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 22339 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 17 Topic Count: 167 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 1715 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 679 Achievement Points: 12965 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 01/13/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 7 Birthday: 03/20/1972 Device: Windows Share Posted August 4, 2012 Wow. Great information in this thread! After learning a hard lesson many years ago, I don't keep a lot of files on my computer. I save most everything to an external hard drive and have my computer run backups once a week to it. I wish I could connect both of my computers to the external simultaneously though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Merlin007 Posted August 4, 2012 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1076 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8444 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7318 Achievement Points: 75031 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Android Share Posted August 4, 2012 I have my hard drive partitioned once. C for OS and installed programs and D for all my personal files and certain files backed up from C so when I run a back up, I simply back up D. I have 2 HP ProLiant servers running in my basement so everyone in my home backs their stuff up to their own space on the server. Backups are important these days with so much information being kept electronic, some of which, who cares if you loose, and others such as family photos that are irreplaceable. What are the model of your Proliants? I would love to get an old DL380. I have a ML350 G5, a DL145 G2, and a DL380 G2. hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
simplemod Posted August 5, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Share Posted August 5, 2012 (edited) Wow. Great information in this thread! After learning a hard lesson many years ago, I don't keep a lot of files on my computer. I save most everything to an external hard drive and have my computer run backups once a week to it. I wish I could connect both of my computers to the external simultaneously though. You can, you could have every computer in your house that connects to your network send it's back up to your external drive. I know it's possible, I can't tell you how to do it, cause networking ain't my strong suit, but these guys here should be able to. I know this is how my pop-in-law does his. His desktop, 2 laptops, and a desktop on his living room TV all backup to the same external drive connected to his main desktop. and he can access that drive from any one of the computers. I guess it's basically making it a server of sorts. Edited August 5, 2012 by simplemod hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted August 5, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted August 5, 2012 I have my hard drive partitioned once. C for OS and installed programs and D for all my personal files and certain files backed up from C so when I run a back up, I simply back up D. I have 2 HP ProLiant servers running in my basement so everyone in my home backs their stuff up to their own space on the server. Backups are important these days with so much information being kept electronic, some of which, who cares if you loose, and others such as family photos that are irreplaceable. What are the model of your Proliants? I would love to get an old DL380. I have a ML350 G5, a DL145 G2, and a DL380 G2. ML was the server case i think rather the rack like the two DL's. Nice a DL380 G2..... great server like the old Compaq 1500's! Compaq made the best raid controllers..... I miss Compaq. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted August 5, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted August 5, 2012 Wow. Great information in this thread! After learning a hard lesson many years ago, I don't keep a lot of files on my computer. I save most everything to an external hard drive and have my computer run backups once a week to it. I wish I could connect both of my computers to the external simultaneously though. You can, you could have every computer in your house that connects to your network send it's back up to your external drive. I know it's possible, I can't tell you how to do it, cause networking ain't my strong suit, but these guys here should be able to. I know this is how my pop-in-law does his. His desktop, 2 laptops, and a desktop on his living room TV all backup to the same external drive connected to his main desktop. and he can access that drive from any one of the computers. I guess it's basically making it a server of sorts. it is not hard to setup.. you can have the the drive hooked to one PC, create a share to a folder of you choice, map the drive to the folder shared and it is like a local drive. Run backups.. and ur done. Instead of going to the external you can have one PC backup to the other PC so the external is not plugged in all the time (bad idea) then just have the other PC's backup include the other PC's. I can help you setup if you want. If you ask Pinglo how to he starts talking about clouds. His head is always in the clouds. hahahahaha simplemod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin007 Posted August 5, 2012 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1076 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8444 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7318 Achievement Points: 75031 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Android Share Posted August 5, 2012 Wow. Great information in this thread! After learning a hard lesson many years ago, I don't keep a lot of files on my computer. I save most everything to an external hard drive and have my computer run backups once a week to it. I wish I could connect both of my computers to the external simultaneously though. You can, you could have every computer in your house that connects to your network send it's back up to your external drive. I know it's possible, I can't tell you how to do it, cause networking ain't my strong suit, but these guys here should be able to. I know this is how my pop-in-law does his. His desktop, 2 laptops, and a desktop on his living room TV all backup to the same external drive connected to his main desktop. and he can access that drive from any one of the computers. I guess it's basically making it a server of sorts. it is not hard to setup.. you can have the the drive hooked to one PC, create a share to a folder of you choice, map the drive to the folder shared and it is like a local drive. Run backups.. and ur done. Instead of going to the external you can have one PC backup to the other PC so the external is not plugged in all the time (bad idea) then just have the other PC's backup include the other PC's. I can help you setup if you want. If you ask Pinglo how to he starts talking about clouds. His head is always in the clouds. hahahahaha Ideally, with an external drive, if you can get one that plugs into your router, then no need to have a PC on to share the drive as the external would be available at all times through the router. But what hxtr said will work as well. hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Merlin007 Posted August 5, 2012 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1076 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8444 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7318 Achievement Points: 75031 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Android Share Posted August 5, 2012 I have my hard drive partitioned once. C for OS and installed programs and D for all my personal files and certain files backed up from C so when I run a back up, I simply back up D. I have 2 HP ProLiant servers running in my basement so everyone in my home backs their stuff up to their own space on the server. Backups are important these days with so much information being kept electronic, some of which, who cares if you loose, and others such as family photos that are irreplaceable. What are the model of your Proliants? I would love to get an old DL380. I have a ML350 G5, a DL145 G2, and a DL380 G2. ML was the server case i think rather the rack like the two DL's. Nice a DL380 G2..... great server like the old Compaq 1500's! Compaq made the best raid controllers..... I miss Compaq. You are correct. The ML is a tower case style where the other 2 are rack mount. One thing I do like about the ML style is that it doesn't take up a lot of space. Also to note is that I can use regular SATA drives in the ML350 and DL145 where the DL380 is a bit older, uses SCSI drives. hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Tball Posted August 5, 2012 Member ID: 112 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1132 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 228 Achievement Points: 6975 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 3, 2015 Birthday: 10/09/1960 Share Posted August 5, 2012 damn i have about 10 DL380's G1's a few Dell 2450's tons of old gear free to anyone that wants to pick it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PingLo Posted August 5, 2012 Member ID: 1103 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 64 Topic Count: 119 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1977 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1122 Achievement Points: 15642 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 02/08/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2013 Birthday: 01/01/2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 damn i have about 10 DL380's G1's a few Dell 2450's tons of old gear free to anyone that wants to pick it up Nice, those are almost as fast as my iPad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tball Posted August 5, 2012 Member ID: 112 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1132 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 228 Achievement Points: 6975 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 3, 2015 Birthday: 10/09/1960 Share Posted August 5, 2012 I said they were old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Posted August 5, 2012 Member ID: 2025 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 6 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 294 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 127 Achievement Points: 1746 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/08/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 7 Birthday: 08/05/1959 Device: Android Share Posted August 5, 2012 That is a great help Dean. I used to hate losing everything. Thanks to you and Larson. Vincent BigPapaDean 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
hxtr Posted August 5, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted August 5, 2012 damn i have about 10 DL380's G1's a few Dell 2450's tons of old gear free to anyone that wants to pick it up where the fuck do you live.. hahahahaha the 1500, then dl series were good servers. I liked the dells as well... worked on many 2450's but the raid controler.. perks suck something horibble at that time. Not sure about now.... compaq, just plug the drive in.. it will sort it out. Dell... seen many severs lose systems requiring a reload due to one rive failure. Kind of defeated the purpose. Sure that has been resolved.. i hope. Would love to get the dl380.. had lots of fun with them. I would so love to get an old Compaq 5000. Would even put netware on it. That would be the shit. lol now im hardware dreaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tball Posted August 6, 2012 Member ID: 112 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1132 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 228 Achievement Points: 6975 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 3, 2015 Birthday: 10/09/1960 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Mass come get em Yes Dell raid controllers are better now Perk 1's through perk 3's sucked Compaq did have an easier setup but when they fucked up it was a mess to fix hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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