Rocky Smolin
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sun Oct 4 16:16:24 CDT 2009
12 USB ports? Nice. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 1:25 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] New virtual drive Last night I installed a new ASUS M4A78 Plus mother (2600 MHz), in my wife's old computer. The motherboard was $100, $30 x 2GB for memory and CPU. Quad-core AMD... the whole arrangement came to about $230 with taxes... the only additional expense was having to get an optical DVD drive, $40. The new board comes with a 1 GB NIC, two video card slots, eSATA/SATA connection, 5 on the board and two off the back (all BIOS configurable), in addition it come with 12 USB ports (auto-sensing; from legacy to high speed 2.0), sound and for backward compatibility it comes with COM and LPT port connectors as well as IDE slots. The board also supports Firewire but I have not figured out how to configure it as of yet. She seems happy but for how long? Now the question. I hope to just install a virtual PC (VirtualBox?) and simple install the old XP boot drive in/on the virtual. The old drive was 60GB and the new one is 500GB. I remember there was some talk, on the Lists about just backing up a drive on to a VPC but I have had no first hand experience. Any suggestions? Best methods? Best software? Gotcas? Etc.. MTIA Jim _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com