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My #$%-ing Computer

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I ran out of hard disk space on the main drive (30 GB), decided to make the leap to an SSD (solid state drive) for speed. Tried to clone my WinXP OS from the old drive to the new, ended up trying to use Paragon disk copy (which I paid for) EaseUS (free) and ultimately Clonezilla, an open source tool. After much goatroping, figured out I couldn't copy because the main disc was failing.

Went and bought Windows 7 since now I needed a new OS. Windows 7 comes on DVDs, which I noticed after I got home from the computer store, so then I went and bought a DVD external read/write box. Then the main disk failed, so I would have to boot from the Windows 7 DVDs. Couldn't figure out how to get it to boot from that, until I did figure it out after much thrashing. Installed Windows 7, then noticed that my SSD was partitioned goofy from all of my earlier messing around. Thought I could just delete this one partition...killed my computer. Reinstalled Windows 7 on the correctly setup SSD. Whew!

Holy cow the SSD makes the computer fast. Boot up is insane quick. Anything reading or writing to that beast happens like already. HUGE upgrade. Two thumbs up. :finga:
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30 GB? This is not misprint?
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Wild Bill wrote:30 GB? This is not misprint?
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Wild Bill wrote:30 GB? This is not misprint?
That is more than you could ever need.....I remember thinking in 1999.
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^legit chuckle.
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I have a nice little Toshiba with Windows 95 and 4 GB that I'm not using anymore. Ran the recovery disc so it's like brand new from the mfg. You can have it for $15! Hope this helps.
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Terry B. wrote:
Wild Bill wrote:30 GB? This is not misprint?
That is more than you could ever need.....I remember thinking in 1999.
I have a couple of big externals that were storing all of my data and most of my applications, so I thought I could keep limping along with the 30 GB drive just running the OS, and did for a couple of years. Google is what killed me. Picasa puts a ton of stuff on the OS drive even if the pix themselves are somewhere else. That, and games for the shorties and a few other things (wife's music).

My first hard drive ever was 20 MB. Hooge!
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