[AT] slightly off topic, computer related

[charlie hill]

Cloud storage is a good option but I just haven't gotten comfortable
with putting my data in a place that I don't control that CLAIMS to be
secure.  My opinion is that it is one hack or one lost password from being
unrecoverable.  I intend to do that at some point but I still want a copy
that I can hold in my hand.  My idea of dual booting from my external drive
is just for temp use to get me to the new computer without worrying too bad
about loosing everything in the mean time.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Chuck Bealke
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 9:00 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] slightly off topic, computer related

Charlie,

Am suspecting your long in the tooth computer might be better replaced than 
patched - at least if it's old, you value your time and it never thrived 
with Win 10. If I did not have the friend that helps keep me up with the 
constant changes to MS, security threats, and creeping privacy invasions by 
MS, browser and other software etc., I would find a HS student with good 
refs through church youth group or local HS to visit a while for an hourly 
charge to help me. As a rule, new hard drives are getting cheaper per TB and 
you might want to get a 3 TB or bigger for backup. There are some (one in 
three sales guys perhaps) part time techie college students working at Frys 
here that know their stuff and will tell you what gear gets returned and 
what gear does not. Just got rid of a still running PC that was less than 5 
years old that my wife was using, but not quietly. Moved what she wanted to 
keep from it to a new one I bought her for Christmas + birthday and got some 
of my life bac!
k, as it runs fast and almost problem free day after day. (Got her a Mac as 
she spends hours on her iPad and iPhone, but am not suggesting that would 
fit you.)  I made my old PC (with early i7 processor) run way faster by 
installing a solid state hard drive on top of the old one, but it ate a ton 
of time and I don't recommend that for your situation. Have been tempted to 
do cloud backup as Cecil suggested for a short book I'm working on with 
editing help from Colorado, as it is easy to access from anywhere and won't 
get wiped out by lightning strike, fire, theft, etc.

Good luck.

Chuck Bealke
Dallas (actually Plano) TX


> On Feb 13, 2017, at 4:45 PM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
> I don't want to loose all of my tractor information and
> years worth of ATIS e-mails, etc.  My computer is getting long
> in the tooth and will soon need to be replaced but the main problem
> with it right now is there is just too much stuff stored on it.
>
> I have a 1.5 TB external drive that I'm currently only using for backup.
> I'd like to partition that drive so that I can still back up to it but 
> also
> create a file location for photos and archived e-mails, etc.  I'd also
> like to set the computer up to dual boot from either drive.  I'm trying to
> prepare for the certainty that this machine is going to crash relatively
> soon.
>
> If I can get all of that done I can accomplish a couple of things.
> 1, I can then clean up the drive on the computer and see if that helps the
> problem.
> 2, I won't have to worry about loosing data when it crashes.
>
> The problem is that ever since about windows XL I haven't known how to do
> any of this stuff.
> This machine is running Windows 10 and it's really ill prepared for it.
>
> Does anyone know of a utility, preferably free, that will help me do all
> this stuff?
> I have literally 20 years worth of book marks carefully sorted into files 
> by
> subject and I would
> surely hate to loose all of that not to mention the pictures that can 
> never
> be replaced.
>
> I'm not sure I am willing to slog through the process myself without the
> help of some sort of
> utility.  Even if I knew how.
>
> Thanks
>
> Charlie
>
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