SP2 Debacle Remedy

[IGWright]

Okay, so I've been through the SP2 disaster. Replete with OS reinstalls, corrupt OS disks and a studio that hasn't been working for 10 days. No problem, I'm over it. But I was thinking, perhaps this would be a good way of avoiding such things in the future:

Currently I'm running a dual boot:

Disk 0: Parition 1 Audio
Disk 0: Parition 2 Business

What about this:

Disk 0: Parition 1 Audio A
Disk 0: Parition 2 Audio B
Disk 0: Parition 3 Business

That way, if my Audio A Partition goes down, I have the Audio B Partition still working. Then I can work on the Audio A Partition in my spare time rather than killing myself to get it working 'cause my life has come to an end 'cause I can't make music.

Whaddaya guys think?


Ian:banana:

[Justin]

I think that before I gave up all that disk space for an extra partition, I'd look into software like Ghost or something similar to create an emergency system restore disk.

You could use the "system restore" feature in Windows to do something similar, but it's more for doing scheduled restore points. That way you can always go back a week or so before you made the system changes.

Some of the store bought add-on software
can help you to make a emergency disk with an image of your system's current working configuration. That way you can always roll the system back to a configuration you're sure works.

You'd have to check on specific brands of software, but some of these may let you restore from a hard drive failure as well.

[IGWright]

I own Retrospect and Norton. I'm gonna see if either of them will do it.


Ian:smokin: