Counting Down

[rejectomorph]

Now and then the rain falls, and sometimes the wind blows, and always the clouds are there, concealing the stars. It has been a blustery night, and cold, and I have spent it making CDs of things on the hard drive which I will want to transfer to the new computer. There remains much to be done, and I think that I'm going to have to find a place to set Sluggo back up so I can continue the project after the new computer arrives. Switching from one machine to another is a massive asspain. When Sluggo was upgraded a few years ago, all that had to be done was to temporarily install his old hard drive (less than a gigabyte) into the new case and move the files onto the new hard drive in one big dump. I didn't have to do it myself. I didn't learn how it was done. I don't know if it could be done with the new computer. Besides, I'm wary of moving the entire contents of a computer that is known to be evil (yes, Sluggo, you) into a computer that may yet be entirely innocent. The likelihood of contamination seems great. So, I do it the hard way.

I wish I enjoyed playing with gadgets.

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A solution...

[swamper777.livejournal.com]

I use the My Documents folder exclusively for all my files. This way, when I migrate to a machine with new innards, I simply copy and paste the contents of the folder, instantly (well, it does take a few minutes!)recreating my files.

I do fresh installs of Windows and all software on the new (and usually much larger) hard drive, primarily because it's the best way to ensure the programs work correctly with the new hardware. I will then reformat the old one and copy the My Documents folder to it as a backup. Finally, I securely erase the third hard drive (the previous computer's backup) before donating it to the local school.

Once a month I burn a DVD of the My Documents folder.