Mine is still in the letting me reschedule for never stage. I already have to play the second Nancy Drew game without sound on Win7. I won't lose game four. Not my Marie Antoinette.
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Originally posted by thewriteranon View PostMine is still in the letting me reschedule for never stage. I already have to play the second Nancy Drew game without sound on Win7. I won't lose game four. Not my Marie Antoinette.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostAnd ABSOLUTELY be sure to have your data and programs backed up! Sparko's idea of a cloned hard drive is, in my opinion, the best, because if the Win 10 install crashes - and there are plenty of horror stories - you can, at least, put the old hard drive back in and be operational.
I use Carbonite, along with their "mirror image" option on an external hard drive.
You can also create regular backups, incremental or differential, and you can even do entire disk image/clones to the same or different size hard drives. I run the live backup all the time, do weekly incremental backups, and also do complete images from time to time. And I keep the backups on two different external drives, one of which is an NAS RAID 1
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostI use Acronis. It does live backups anytime something changes on your computer (like Time machine on macs) and keeps several versions of each file so you can go back and restore something from a day ago, or a week ago.
You can also create regular backups, incremental or differential, and you can even do entire disk image/clones to the same or different size hard drives. I run the live backup all the time, do weekly incremental backups, and also do complete images from time to time. And I keep the backups on two different external drives, one of which is an NAS RAID 1
The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostCloning is an older term that described making an exact replica of your hard drive to identical hardware. A disk image is more flexible, and can range from a true cloned copy of your drive to an out of box experience that just retains your data.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by thewriteranon View PostMine is still in the letting me reschedule for never stage. I already have to play the second Nancy Drew game without sound on Win7. I won't lose game four. Not my Marie Antoinette.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Whoops. I meant without sound on Win8. Windows 7 was the last one to play all my games correctly. I guess I'm still just wishing I didn't have to upgrade with the new comp.
"Fire is catching. If we burn, you burn with us!"
"I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay here and cause all kinds of trouble."
Katniss Everdeen
Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast.
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When you talk of back ups, do you mean data only, or are programs included? On my current machine there is a main disk and a backup disk which contains only programs.Watch your links! http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/fa...corumetiquette
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Originally posted by thewriteranon View PostWhoops. I meant without sound on Win8. Windows 7 was the last one to play all my games correctly. I guess I'm still just wishing I didn't have to upgrade with the new comp.
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Originally posted by DesertBerean View PostWhen you talk of back ups, do you mean data only, or are programs included?
The kind of backup Sparko is talking about (I think) does an initial "everything", then continues to backup only the changes, so that, at any given point in time, you can restore the whole programs/data situation.
An "image" of your hard drive is, of course, a "snapshot in time". The incremental backup refreshes that so it's ready to be used to do a "restore to previous state" with a much more current result.
On my current machine there is a main disk and a backup disk which contains only programs.
That "backup disk" only contains the programs and OS that shipped with your computer, I bet. It returns your computer to a "factory new" state, WITHOUT all the security updates, service packs, and what not that may have accumulated since your computer was built.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostThat's the $64,000 question. If you're like me, you have a lot of programs that are a pain to install. Therefore, a periodic (at least) image of your hard drive is a great idea. Many people only backup their data (if that) but then they can't find the install disks to install the programs.
The kind of backup Sparko is talking about (I think) does an initial "everything", then continues to backup only the changes, so that, at any given point in time, you can restore the whole programs/data situation.
An "image" of your hard drive is, of course, a "snapshot in time". The incremental backup refreshes that so it's ready to be used to do a "restore to previous state" with a much more current result.
That "backup disk" only contains the programs and OS that shipped with your computer, I bet. It returns your computer to a "factory new" state, WITHOUT all the security updates, service packs, and what not that may have accumulated since your computer was built.
I do like the initial then the incremental backup.Watch your links! http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/fa...corumetiquette
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Originally posted by Cerebrum123 View PostAh, while that's likely too new for an emulator, it might not be too new for a fix. Lot's of games out there have fixes available. Usually in the form of a patch, or some setting adjustment. Sometimes the easiest thing to do is just set the compatibility mode, but you might have already tried that.
"Fire is catching. If we burn, you burn with us!"
"I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay here and cause all kinds of trouble."
Katniss Everdeen
Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast.
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Originally posted by thewriteranon View PostYes, I've done compatibility mode. That's the only way I got it to work at all by turning off the sound. Unfortunately the company that produces these games is not doing great and they're not patching the older games for sure. They remastered the first game but they don't have the means to remaster the other ones, even though the second one could desperately use it.
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Originally posted by thewriteranon View PostMine is still in the letting me reschedule for never stage. I already have to play the second Nancy Drew game without sound on Win8. I won't lose game four. Not my Marie Antoinette.
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Originally posted by The Melody Maker View PostI don't know this will help you in Windows 8 (or even 10, if you have to go there), but I remember reading somewhere (and I forget where) that in order to properly play the older Nancy Drew games in Windows 7 (which is what I use), they need to be installed their own folders within the "Users\{User Name}\Documents" folder -- and then possibly some (if not all) may need compatibility mode. That's what I had to do to get mine working, anyway.
"Fire is catching. If we burn, you burn with us!"
"I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay here and cause all kinds of trouble."
Katniss Everdeen
Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast.
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