laptop crashes with ATI video card but easy fix

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Bryant , what I am referring to is partitioning the drive so the OS is on the smaller portion and the Karaoke and music files are on the larger partition so if it crashes and the OS needs to be reinstalled you wont have to transfer those files to the drive, it’s just a time saver. If the hard drive was to fail those files need to be available on another hard drive either USB/Firewire removable or a network computer (very slow transfer rate compared to removable) so you haven’t lost your data and don’t have to rip/convert all those discs again.

I really like to be redundant, I’ll have 3 sets of identical file sets, one on the computer I use, one on removable storage and a cloned drive of the computer stored at a different location in case the house burns down or blows up, things get stolen, whatever the case might be.

I’m also a lazy guy so after the computer is setup the way I want it I’ll create an image of my drive so if things do go bad I don’t have to install the OS and all the programs I’ve installed and remove the bloatware from the manufacture and tweak it the way I want it all over again, I don’t have to validate windows or update things, it’s a real time saver, a one step process instead of days.

[bryant]

I see, thanx. That's pretty much how I do it. Have two backup drives for music and kma files and a cloned drive.

One might say "We are organized out of laziness!".