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Dutch Can you or you someone else explain this ^ ?
I'll do mine when I get home tonight.
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Shikra, I think you mean partitions (C: and D: ) when you say hard drives. The best solution for backups is to buy an external drive (either USB or firewire). This way when you're doing a restore you can just unplug it. If you don't have too much data you can use a USB thumb drive as well.
When you backup your stuff on the same drive (not partition) you loose it all when you do a full OS recovery (best thing to do) it wipes everything out.
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But in my case, it booted and recovered from D: and when it reinstalled windows, it didn't wipe off D, it cleaned up C drive only.
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Its designed to do that, D: is the recovery partition with the whole system image on it. Most companies don't even give users access to that partition. On my Vaio I actually burned DVDs for the installed and wiped the drive out and recovered that 5-6 gb partition that they reserve.
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Could you open all the subfolders and show all the error logs?
SPMgr.exe is some power managment utility for Asus and Sony laptops.
Try disabling it, or better remove the utility and work without it for a couple of days. Vista has better power managment anyway.
I wonder what the hardware failure and software uninstall errors came from 
could you post another print screen please? 
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Thats because everybody is used to bash Microsoft. Alot of people keep complaining and wining.
http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/it/2006/02/28/vista-might-not-be-such-a-bad-upgrade-after-all/
Vista is already safer then windows Xp SP2. If you have software or hardware that doesnt work with vista, thats a different story. But safety is abolutely not that big of an issue. 
From Gartner:
analysts acknowledged that companies that use IE 7 and Vista will have fewer points of weakness
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Its designed to do that, D: is the recovery partition with the whole system image on it. Most companies don't even give users access to that partition. On my Vaio I actually burned DVDs for the installed and wiped the drive out and recovered that 5-6 gb partition that they reserve.
I have store the system snapshots on CDs as well and I can recover from CDs if needed. I just didn't bother to wipe out the recovery drive, but now it seems to be a good idea. It's not much space though, but I know I have an option if need arises.
I can buy an external hard drive, but since this a laptop, and I am very lazy, I know I will get sick and tired of it. I have a 4 GB USB Flash drive and I guess I need to get into habit of doing a monthly (or weekly) backup on that.
The easiest way I can think of is copy all the important files/documents on the USB. Next time when I do another back up, I can either overwrite the old ones or simply choose not to copy the ones that are already there. That will add only the ones that were not copied last time because they didn't exist.
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Do you have another computer/server in ur local network? You can setup the backup to save changed copies to a drive on the network (even over wifi). Or if its too much of a bother you can invest in a NAS. These days its not much more than getting an external hard-drive.
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Both are laptops. NAS idea impresses me.
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Now I notice something funny in firefox.
When I open some threads (or some sites like CNN), the firefox window is jumping up and down.
It is doing that as I type this message in computer forum. When I am in other forums such as cafe or mods forum etc., it's fine.
EDIT: I believe it's due to page error console. It lists the pages that had problem.
Anybody knows what's going on?
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Ok here’s my contribution.
