Recovery Drive

**Jet Gorgon** · 17-04-2009, 04:09 AM

I have Windows fekin Vista on one comp. Obviously some booboos happening -- running really slow mostly. I reckon it's the D drive (about 7.7GB with only 900MB free). Can't get in there to check. I tried to run disc cleanup and defrag (set for weekly runs) and they're now missing from system tools.

Should I just copy all my files and reset the fecker to factory settings? I don't have the geek smarts you guys have.

Please help.
Love,
Jettie

**PlanK** · 17-04-2009, 04:33 AM

If you can copy some files off the D drive you'll get enough free space on it that you run a defrag on it. Can't remember how much free space you need on a drive on windows to use the windows defrag, maybe about 10%.

I don't know how you lost the defrag tools????? But if you double click on My Computer => right click on D drive => Properties => Tools Tab, you'll find them there.

**Jet Gorgon** · 17-04-2009, 04:48 AM

Thanks, PB. Found the defrag there. It's set for a weekly run, but doing it again now.

**baldrick** · 17-04-2009, 10:49 AM

can you just buy a new hard drive ? more space , newer etc

pull the old drive out , and put it in an external usb caddy and put the new HD in = 100USD + 10 mins and 5-8 phillips head screws

upgrade to winxp pro - though you have to check to see if your laptop supports the newer operating system.

install xp , enjoy a new fast responsive system and copy the files ypu need from the external usb to your laptop , and when you have all you need you can then wipe the external and have a spare portable drive.

**klongmaster** · 17-04-2009, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by baldrick

upgrade to winxp pro

I'm looking at buying a new com and everything seems to come with Vista pre loaded...one Dell model included downgrade to XP!...

**Norton** · 17-04-2009, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by klongmaster

one Dell model included downgrade to XP!...

Opt for the downgrade.

**klongmaster** · 17-04-2009, 11:35 AM

i have no experience with vista so can you lot give me some idea about the problems...

**Norton** · 17-04-2009, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by klongmaster

can you lot give me some idea about the problems...

"Mossberg also asked if Vista has damaged the Windows “brand”. Gates replies that “Microsoft’s philosophy is to ‘do things better’. And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that” – which is followed by audience laughter. “There are plenty of lessons out of Vista–compatibility and other issues vendors are concerned about”, continued Gates."

iTWire - Ballmer: Vista “not a failure” but here’s a Windows 7 demo

Microsoft is bringing out a new system, Windows 7, a "refined version" of Vista. In IT speak translates to something that works!

**klongmaster** · 17-04-2009, 12:00 PM

Sorry Jet for the highjack but...
Norts: should I wait for Win7 or buy now with XP?

**ChiangMai noon** · 17-04-2009, 12:18 PM

just 12 more days til the release of jaunty jackalope.

i can't wait.

**Norton** · 17-04-2009, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by klongmaster

Norts: should I wait for Win7 or buy now with XP?

If the need for the computer s urgent, I would opt for XP. Just bought one myself a few weeks back and had XP installed rather than Vista.

If you wait for Windows 7 will be at least October 2009 and likely longer before the initial release. Once released, if history is any indicator, it will have the usual problems all of MS's new release software.

Others here will argue this but opting for XP is the safe way to go. It is proven and all the "fixes" have been pretty well made by MS.

**ChiangMai noon** · 17-04-2009, 12:28 PM

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**PlanK** · 17-04-2009, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

just 12 more days til the release of jaunty jackalope.

i can't wait.

I was hoping to install it this weekend. Still have to wait. Maybe Windows 7 will be released next week and I can give that a go instead.

**baldrick** · 17-04-2009, 03:25 PM

install XP pro not XP home

vista is a dog

**Jet Gorgon** · 18-04-2009, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by klongmaster

Sorry Jet for the highjack but...

No prob at all, KM.

I would go to XP but so many files on Vista. It's such a dog, as BR says. I think I'll copy my files and reset the whole fekin thing.
Thank you kindly all for the views, if not the mechanics to fix this sorrya** problem.

**klongmaster** · 23-04-2009, 05:30 PM

I have been shopping for my new com but it's not possible to buy a legal version of XP in Thailand...
my mate mediaman tells me the best i can do is get vista and upgrade when Win7 comes out...

**baldrick** · 23-04-2009, 10:17 PM

- buy a legal copy from ebay and install

if it is a laptop make sure the scum manufacturers have XP drivers for that model

**Fondles** · 24-04-2009, 07:11 AM

Originally Posted by baldrick

vista is a dog

Im running a haxxored version of vista called Vista Black, it runs like a dream, much better than my xp pro lappy.

**baldrick** · 24-04-2009, 09:02 AM

Originally Posted by Fondles

much better than my xp pro lappy.

how many years of cruft inhabit the xp laptop

you can use XPlite and your XP disk to create an XP install disk with all the add on rubbish removed and even the latest drivers and service packs - get your XP using only 80meg of ram in the beginning

blackviper's list and explanation of services is a good place to start looking at what services you need to have running on your machine.

**Takeovers** · 25-04-2009, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by Norton

If you wait for Windows 7 will be at least October 2009 and likely longer before the initial release. Once released, if history is any indicator, it will have the usual problems all of MS's new release software.

I am waiting for a Release Candidate Version coming out in May. That would be free and rumour has it it will run until the first full version will come out and you can install the full version over it without the need of a new install.

I will go that way as I will need my Laptop in june and don't want to buy an old version now, unless they come out with a Vista plus free upgrade to 7. The last beta worked fine with the new laptop so will hopefully the Release Candidate version.

I have high hopes that Windows 7 will be ok if history serves. Win 95 was crap, Win98 was fine, at least the SE. If that works out I have successfully skipped Vista.

**Marmite the Dog** · 25-04-2009, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by klongmaster

I have been shopping for my new com but it's not possible to buy a legal version of XP in Thailand...

Loy Toy bought one the other week.

**Fondles** · 25-04-2009, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by klongmaster

I have been shopping for my new com but it's not possible to buy a legal version of XP in Thailand...
my mate mediaman tells me the best i can do is get vista and upgrade when Win7 comes out...

Which one did you want ??

PRICE LIST

MICROSOFT. Microsoft Windows Vista Starter 1600
MICROSOFT. Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 32-BIT 7150
MICROSOFT. Microsoft Windows Vista Business 5590
MICROSOFT. Microsoft Windows Vista Home 4390
MICROSOFT. Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic 3590
MICROSOFT. Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 7290
MICROSOFT. Microsoft Windows XP Home (OEM) 3290
MICROSOFT. Microsoft Windows XP Pro (OEM) 5380
MICROSOFT. Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2C 5590
MICROSOFT. Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edtion 185

I have a black copy of windows7 here, created by "benjamin" if anyone wants it.

**baldrick** · 25-04-2009, 11:07 PM

I think the early adopters of win7 are going to be disappointed.

they will be shocked when they find it is not the same as the betas and release candidates and the DRM that msoft will have added will be pure hell until it gets tamed by a service pack or 2.

**Takeovers** · 30-04-2009, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by baldrick

I think the early adopters of win7 are going to be disappointed.

Maybe but what should I do? So far I have used Win XP and now I need an OS for my laptop. I don't want to buy another XP and I don't want to buy Vista now.
I will not need much of the new gimmicks initially and when I may need them hopefully the bugs will be gone.

So I go with Windows 7. It will be officially out for the general public to use on May 5 with a free Release Candidate version. If you want you can get it now somewhere on the net.

If anybody is interested the keys released for the last Beta will be valid for the RC and are open in the net.

The keys

The site is in german but that's not a problem for getting the keys.

**Jet Gorgon** · 06-05-2009, 04:06 AM

Thanks for telling me to downgrade to XP, but biz uses Vista... So, how can I clean out my D drive? When I search for %temp% (which I think the prob is) it shows stuff in my C drive apps, nothing in D. I cannae see any of the files or folders in D drive either. I feked up as I am using it as admin. Doh...

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