[AccessD] Fun with the boys

Then there is the backup & recovery practice as well as a sandbox system?

For my lot I had the drive split into 2 partitions, copied the OS partition to
the second one, then
used a caddy drive that I cloned from the installed one

Both drives are bootable and the system is set so the caddy is the first drive
to be looked at for boot 
That means with the caddy drive in the locked cupboard the system boots from
their 'play' OS, with the option to boot from the (before the OS was wrecked)
copy.
If both copies of the OS are got-at, then it's the recovery drive out of the
cupboard and into the caddy boot the OS and copy the 2nd partition onto the 2nd
partition of the play drive, recover data from the normal OS partition onto the
restored partition and copy that back over the usually used OS.

JimB   

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W Colby
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 12:26 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Fun with the boys

This week I ordered parts for a gaming machine for my 13 year old son.  Newegg
rocks.  He has a 
decidedly old PC that I built from parts scavenged from old server parts.  Long
in the tooth 
describes it perfectly.

So last night, I took my son and Brian (his buddy who spends 1/2 his life at my
house) upstairs to 
start building this PC.  The boys did each and every part of the build
themselves.  We did every 
step twice, every screw, the motherboard standoffs, motherboard being screwed
into place, the memory 
dimms put in, video card inserted and screwed down, power supply screwed in
place and all the leads 
connected etc. Disk drive and DVD rom drive installed and power / SATA cables
installed.

The ONLY thing that I did was insert the processor chip into the socket and
install the heat sink 
fan for that while they watched. So my boys built Robbie's computer last night.
Turned it on and it 
came right up.

Installed the new OEM Windows 7 disk and did the install.  I could have used
Windows 8 for that PC, 
it would have worked just fine, but I just didn't want to have to spend the time
and effort 
supporting a lonely Windows 8 island in a sea of existing Windows 7 PCs around
it.  There is no 
"must have" reason to put it on this new machine. And of course no touch screen
anyway.

Today the boys will personally run Windows update the bajillion times required,
download Avast Free 
and Threatfire, install the games etc.  We will install the Office 7 suite, PDF
reader, Chrome and 
Firefox and all that.

Then we get to try and figure out whether their game state history for the
various games they play 
are local or on the internet and if local, where and can it be migrated from the
old machine to the 
new.  New anything is disruptive, no doubt about that.

-- 
John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it


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