New Laptop Coming: This Gateway is 6 yrs old and does stuff that drives me crazy. Type in one line and it jumps to a previous sentence or paragraph. So, arriving on the 11th is a Sony...

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

This Gateway is 6 yrs old and does stuff that drives me crazy. Type in one line and it jumps to a previous sentence or paragraph.

So, arriving on the 11th is a Sony Vaio 15.5 inch screen, 3rd Gen Intel i7 processor, Win7 Professional, 6 hr battery, 4.42 lbs, 2 Gig Video Card, 750Gig Hard Drive, CD/DVD reader/burner, built in video camera laptop and I requested it be formatted with Win7 Professional and absolutely NOTHING ELSE from Sony or any other 3rd party. If I want a program, I'll install it.

Immediately on receipt, I'll use my partition program to change the 750 gig drive to a Drive C: with the operating system with 250Gig and Drive D: with all other programs loaded there at 500 Gig.

Can't wait. Probably better specs than my desktop.

Sarge69

ngc1514 Loc: Atlanta, Ga., Lancaster, Oh. and Stuart, Fl.

Before doing anything... Get a big external drive and a copy of Acronis and back up the entire system as it arrives. Then, after partitioning and tweaking the system to work as you want it, do another complete backup.

My preference is all software on the boot drive and no data on the boot disk. Although you will have 2 partitions, you still only have a single drive in the machine and that's a recipe for disaster. A good backup and restoral plan should be near the top of your list.

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

Already have partition manager professional and Acronis True Image and EAUSA Back Up.

I image the complete 750 with paritions to external drives (bare system when received) and as I load programs onto two each ( 2TB drives) and alternate the externals monthly.

I backup weekly on differential and once a month I do complete backups.

I hate any loss of data/programs or photos. I started this habit when working as IT Manager for AT&T Passport Center with 5 servers and 185 individual PCs. Except then I used Ghost from Norton which is also very good.

Sarge69 - Thanks
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ngc1514 Loc: Atlanta, Ga., Lancaster, Oh. and Stuart, Fl.

Sounds like a plan. I do a differential of the system drive every night and a complete backup of the sys drive weekly. Use Allway Sync to track any data changes to a primary and secondary backup drives in real time.

What the heck was the AT&T Passport Center? I spent 16 years with AT&T Long Lines and 22 years with BellSouth. Most of it in long haul switching and broadband carrier.

RixPix Loc: Miami, Florida

sarge69 wrote:

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Are they giving you an upgrade to windows 8?

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

ngc1514 wrote:

Sounds like a plan. I do a differential of the system drive every night and a complete backup of the sys drive weekly. Use Allway Sync to track any data changes to a primary and secondary backup drives in real time.

What the heck was the AT&T Passport Center? I spent 16 years with AT&T Long Lines and 22 years with BellSouth. Most of it in long haul switching and broadband carrier.

AT&T contracted to Department of State. Phone calls came in with questions about their passports. We had access to the Department of State data bases in Boston, Norwalk CT, NYC, Charlotte NC, Miami, Louisiana, Texas, LA, Seattle, Honolulu passport centers. We tracked them and solved problems.

Started with 5 servers and 85 PC stations. Ended up when I left for early Social Secuirty with 7 servers, 1 Microsoft Message Server and 485 PCs.

Sarge69

LaughBrian Loc: Tn

sarge69 wrote:

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soundslike a nice set up gratts on the new comp. i have an asus gamers republic. they come with no free trials or 3rd party junk. i have the 2 gig vid card and 8 gigs of ram sandy bridge i7 quad core, i have never had a problem runningany game or software. sounds like you know what your doing whit the back ups. GRATTS AND ENJOY YOUR NEW TOY HEHE

oldmalky Loc: West Midlands,England.

Congrats on your new machine,havent got a clue what you are talking about but it sounds very technichal

ggttc Loc: TN

Good move Sarge...I have 2 sony Vaios..one old and one new...and we have 2 Gateways in the house...no comparison..the sonys are great machines

singleviking Loc: Lake Sebu Eco Park, Philippines

LaughBrian wrote:

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The G-74 and G-75 machines from ASUS are really nice laptops, but you should install a second SSD or disc type hard drive in it. They can hold 2 drives, and installing the programs for photo PP and storage on an SSD drive will speed up your machine's processing dramatically. And for security of data, you really need a backup plan using an external drive or a cloud storage area.
JMHO.