If you dell has a system recovery partition, clone the drives and on the spare drive (KEEP ORIGINAL INTACT!!!) run the system recover from Dell and you'll have a clean factory fresh install.
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Originally Posted by Saltheart
I'll give it a try. thanks. yes , I am running Win7 64 bit so I will stay away from the WINSXS files.
I would really like to keep the very initial buckup before I added anything at all to the system. The other two restore points are just for convenience but that initial system backup on day one is worth having IMO.
Anyway , I will soon be switching over to total cloning of the drive on a schedule. That will leave a seperate dedicated drive with the entire system and then I can dump all the backups if I want. Amazing to me that after just buying this machine in March , there appears to be about214 Gb taken up by backups on the two drives total.
I suppose I can change some setting or just manually manage the backups. I have a $50 drive coming in that should b e better than the one that came from Dell. New drive is 6Gbs interface and 64 meg cache) that will become the new OSD and the original drive will go into the USB 3.0 HD docking station as a strickly cloned backup drive on some kind of Backup schedule.
What I would really like to eventually do is get the original system load back which I believe was like 30+Gb and then clone that ontp BD-R DL discs now and then. That way I just make the clone disc and stick it in a draw somewhare. Every month or so I do a new one and toss the old. Right now single layer BD's are 70 to 80 cents but the DL are still a little high. That will change soon I think as all the new BD burners are DL.
Anyway , fun and games with the computer!  |
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