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post #21 of 25
3/22/04 at 7:52am
Mmmmmm, that is a good idea Somms, I would probably do the same if I had a second HD in my system as it effectively kills two birds with one stone (ie: backup and defrag).
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post #22 of 25
3/22/04 at 8:48am
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Originally Posted by sakor1
I think most of them are aware of this, and defrag right after the install. Why they say it is a better option is because it totally wipes everything, meaning all those little files, pics and other useless knicknacks you accumulate over time but never use will be gone as well.

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Yes Sakor1, I would suspect that if you format a drive everything would be wiped out...
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post #23 of 25
3/22/04 at 8:53am
No need for sacasm! I was just saying that they prefer it because it overall results in a far more effective defrag and clean up as there's not as many useless files an such installed
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post #24 of 25
3/22/04 at 12:10pm
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Originally Posted by MARQUISDARQUIS
So Somms, in effect, you defrag nearly weekly, but as part of your ghosting procedure. No different than doing a full automatic defrag and save to a second drive.

I have to admit, that's a fantastic way to go. Always fresh, clean and orderly. Plus a weekly backup as well. Do you have it automated so it's done without your impetus?
Well it's semi-automated. Since I have the two hard drives installed, I'll boot to DOS via bootable USB Key in order to run Ghost. Once Ghost loads, I'll manually select which drive to back up to. After Ghost finishes, it does close automatically and I've scripted Gdisk to make the primary drive available then to hide the backup drive and reboot. This prevents the spare hard drive from being recognized by windows so Explorer will only show that I have a single C: hard drive installed.

Since I have the two drives installed, to burn CD's or watch a DVD I hook up my notebook DVD burner through the D/Bay external media bay. Not having the optical drive permanently installed should improve the life of my DVD burner since it is only powered on for the short time I'm using it. The moving parts of the drive experience less wear and tear this way.
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post #25 of 25
3/22/04 at 12:54pm
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Originally Posted by sakor1
Mmmmmm, that is a good idea Somms, I would probably do the same if I had a second HD in my system as it effectively kills two birds with one stone (ie: backup and defrag).
stu
If you were to image to an external firewire or USB drive, you could still perform this. Firewire is faster than USB2.0 but both are relatively slow compared to imaging to a second internal HD. Performing disk to disk images on my D800 takes about 20 min with my hard drive near 65% of avail capacity.
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