I think everyone has faced something
like this: installed Windows properly, installed software
and configure everything nicely, tune every setting and
registry nicely... and one step wrong by installing some
stupid software or take a step wrong in registry tuning,
BSOD and restart!
BSOD stands for
Blue
Screen Of Dead! What a good name; and now
you have no choice but to
re-install again. After two long hours of
installation and setup, guest what? BSOD again and you must
be sitting there cursing Bill Gates or yourself!
You can totally avoid that if you plan your installation
properly. What I suggest you can do is separate Operating
System (O.S.) and data. You can partition your hard disk
into 3 logical drives: C - for Vista, D - for general data,
E - for documents only!
Why didn't I combine D+E into 1 drive? Because I want to
disable Vista restore the system on all drives but the
documents, because I want my documents to have multiple
versions. This is not just applied to Business and Ultimate,
because Home edition with some tweak will be able to use
this feature too!
Now you start to install Vista on C, before installing any
software, you perform a hard disk image backup on C, using
either this 2 software:
1. Paragon Drive Backup
2. Acronis TrueImage
I would only recommend you to use a
free
software call Seagate DiscWizard (Powered
by Acronis) if you are using the hard disk from Seagate or
Maxtor, because this program will not work on other brand
hard drive. I know there are some other free and paid
solution, but I highly recommend this because you need a
"Quick" restore plan!
Use the software to create a backup drive image into D, then
continue your installation and configuration. After some big
software installation, such as Microsoft Office or Adobe
Master Collection, you should perform the backup with
different name. Keep multiple backup, you will not know when
and what went wrong during the installation.
Safe guard your image copy of clean Vista installation and
the latest installation, and any installation that is marked
as milestone by you.
With such Quick Restore plan in place, you can safely test
your configuration and tweak, anything goes wrong, you just
press the restore button!
Next step you will be trying different types of settings.
Some requires hardware investment, some just to tune your
registry.
(C) Copyright 2008 Kok Choon
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