Originally Posted by
DenverBrian
So far so good. TripAdvisor is back. Now to download 42 Vista updates, get antivirus and antispam configured, then clean off all the Lenovo bloatware, then get Office 2007 up, then install all my other programs....
I guess we're stuck doing this about once a year.
Take a Ghost image of the drive once you get everything installed. Easy way would be to put the 160GB drive in a USB enclosure, boot off a CD with Ghost.exe on it and dump the image to the 160GB drive.
That way you have a clean backup, even if you don't use it, sometimes a new drive can just die during the first month/two of burn in.
Rescue and Recovery backup is a good option to keep, as you can schedule backups to a USB/Network drive automatically.
Enjoy the 200GB drive, if its the Hitachi HTS7220, like mine, you find it very fast and uses less power than most other slower drives.