[dba-Tech] New install

>endless loop of reboots

Did you catch the error msgs? What had the new monitor 'done'?

PB

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Arthur Fuller wrote:
> A horrible thing happened to me yesterday. I purchased a new monitor and
> unplugged my old one and shut off the box and plugged in the new one and
> turned it back on and suddenly everything went sideways -- endless loop of
> reboots. I took it to the local store and got Johnny to plonk in a new HD
> and to boot from there, and whew! It worked and I still have all the data on
> the big fat HD -- it's tough to back up a 250GB even when it's only about
> half full.
>
> Once I got the box back, I immediately backed up the important stuff and
> burned a CD and also copied it to my memory stick and thence to another box.
>
> What a relief! Oh God, this kind thing is tough on the heart of an old man
> like me. We're saved! More precisely, the work I did in the last couple of
> weeks is saved -- which at the most modest of our rates, represents lots of
> loot.
>
> There's an even better part to this story. My pal Johnny plonked in a new
> HD, made it the bootable one, reinstalled XP Media Edition, re-registered my
> copy and called me to tell me the box was ready. I got all my data back,
> although I do have to do some re-installing of software, but the performance
> is WAY WAY better than it was. This is not due to a faster HD. I think it's
> due to a clean registry. I run RegClean fairly often but apparently that is
> nowhere near enough to optimize performance.
>
> As a writer and developer and experimenter, I often put a lot of stuff on
> and then forget that's even there, which perhaps explains why more than half
> of the 250GB disk is occupied: things I used once or maybe twice, such as
> JDeveloper. Apparently this stuff adds up and you end up with a machine that
> runs at about 25% of what it's capable of with a clean install.
>
> So this time I'm going to try something new: install only what I need and
> only when I need it.
>
> I can't believe the difference in performance. You don't timers to notice.
> Compared to how the box performed before the crisis, the current performance
> is like lightning vs. sound. Suddenly computing is fun again, instead of
> "hurry up and wait".
>
> So, this story ends with a happy ending and a very happy camper. The only
> thing worse than writing code once is writing it twice. Fortunately, thanks
> to Johnny, I'm rescued and don't have to.
>
> I'm now attempting to set up a backup system that will be reliable and
> foolproof (wot a concept). In days of old there was a fantastic utility
> called JET from (IIRC) Pioneer Software. It was essentially a smarter xcopy,
> but with fabulous arguments that would let you do just about anything. I
> wish I could find a replacement for it, that would do the following:
>
> 1. copy all files changed today to the target;
> 2. copy all files, comparing dates on the target's file system, and copying
> newer versions + new files (recursively);
> 3. list all files changed today;
> 4. fix all the bugs in all files I changed today LOL.
>
> Somehow I guess the fourth requirement is beyond scope, but the other three
> ought to be within scope. Anyone know of a tool that can do the first three
> requirements?
>
> TIA,
> Arthur
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