can your windows
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:47 am
can your windows xp do this? i didnt think so.
just like ubuntu's cube. kinda
just like ubuntu's cube. kinda
I am always trying new demo applications and games but never seem to erase them from my system. Every few months I just wipe my drive and start fresh. I keep all my important data on a separate hard drive and I have a disk image with Windows XP, drivers, and essential programs already installed. I just wipe the drive and write the disk image which doesn't even take as long as installing Window XP.darksmaster923 wrote:thats quite a bit of icons on your desktop.
Allanon wrote:I am always trying new demo applications and games but never seem to erase them from my system. Every few months I just wipe my drive and start fresh. I keep all my important data on a separate hard drive and I have a disk image with Windows XP, drivers, and essential programs already installed. I just wipe the drive and write the disk image which doesn't even take as long as installing Window XP.darksmaster923 wrote:thats quite a bit of icons on your desktop.
I have been doing it for about 3 years now and the drive hasn't failed yet. And if it does I won't lose any of my data because that is stored on a separate drive which I back up regularly. I don't think installing a drive image would cause anymore stress on a drive than watching a long movie or playing a game that has a lot of long load screens. The writing of the image to the drive is just like writing a large file to the drive.That might be causing an excess amount of wear on the drive and shorten its lifespan.