[AccessD] System Image Failure

[James Button]

I'm in much the same situation 
Just 20 years on my own, almost retired - but still supporting what I developed
for those clients.
 
Assuming you have a MS id for your w10 login, you may well have a 'personal'
licence for 10 rather than a specific PC licence.

100GB for £24 a year seems OK 

I'd be considering the storage costs against that of a 2TB drive  - replaced
every 2 years  so maybe looking for 500GB for that annual cost 
Note - looking for , not yet found!

Someone I know had all the photos from years of his camera work on his PC, and
despite reminders about backup - including the offer of using my 1TB of
Onedrive, hadn't bothered with a backup.
He now has a new PC, and very few of those photo's - and .. for some reason is
not happy (with me ?)

Re the POP - another annoyance I came across - the recovery drive creation wants
to access windows install media - and I did the last upgrade online - so no
media = no recovery drive created.

Your recovery plan - As you say get new PC, get OS  get Office & Apps, restore
data from cloud.
I would recommend backup sets from multiple programs - I've been caught several
times by unreadable backups - especially annoying when the media is OK, but the
new version of the App or OS will not read the old versions O/P, and the old
version of whatever cannot be installed.
 

And for others reading this - I have one backup of the OS drive  (all
partitions) that will not copy from the personal cloud drive it was created on -
Win-7 and 10 will 'open' the container set and extract all the files, just when
I try to copy the set of 4GB backup files at a set place during the copy, report
network device error.
Go figure - because the personal cloud is OK, MS and the net storage (cloud)
marketer and the TODO backup facility company, and the PC labeller company all
deny the problem exists.
That is a cluster of several Lenovo systems running XP, and both 32 & 64 bit win
7 & 10 attached to a Seagate personal cloud were backed-up to the cloud device
and then the backups were (to be) archived off onto another device .
I suspect the problem is associated with the setup of the partitions in one of
the source Lenovo systems that was 32 bit XP, then XP+ 32 bit 7   
Unix & windows report the partitions as being in different orders on the drive.



JimB


-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky
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Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 8:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] System Image Failure

Good advice re: Microsoft. I've got everything in a Ghost file monthly. So I
feel pretty secure about that.

Being a lone ranger developer for 30 years I've always been pretty paranoid
about backups. Less so now that I'm semi-retired.

I have a Google drive and I drop every file I work with there, as well as a
local EHD.  And all my photos are up there on the Google Drive.  100GB for
$2 a month.  Seems reasonable.

So if the drive died, I assume that MS would allow me to download the W10 I
registered with them.  I reload Office, some other apps.  Get my client
files from the Ghost or cloud and I'm back in business. 

I'm trying not to over think this thing.  But just got drawn off by that pop
up that asked me if I wanted a repair drive and an image.

R