Here we go again...

>Already got 1.4TB of total space across four internal drives... with a
>320GB system drive, imaging can take hours, and to really be effective
>you need to keep at least two previous versions around. Not really an
>efficient way to work, or an efficient use of space.

And wasting hours of time trying to get MMC working _is_ efficient?

Sounds like you already know everything you need to... or think you do
anyway.

"Chuck U. Farley" <chuckufarley@dyslexia.com> wrote in message
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> >Already got 1.4TB of total space across four internal drives... with a
> >320GB system drive, imaging can take hours, and to really be effective
> >you need to keep at least two previous versions around. Not really an
> >efficient way to work, or an efficient use of space.
>
> And wasting hours of time trying to get MMC working _is_ efficient?
>
> Sounds like you already know everything you need to... or think you do
> anyway.
>

Lots of different ways to go about things. Spent more time figuring out MMC
than most people could let alone would. IME a manual clean will take care of
previous MMC Installation problems. As you pointed out installing in the
correct order gives a good chance of not creating them when installing. Over
the last three years reinstalled XP twice, partially to reconfigure my
drives. Neither time fixed problems with MMC. Other than not installing
properly at first and screwing up the Audigy 2 installation all my problems
have been related to HDTV Wonder and especially Multview, with the AIW, in
the last year. Seems now like my P4 isn't quite up to it or at least adding
to the problems.

I tried backing up the whole system back in the W9x era. Seemed like every
time I thought about doing a restore it had been long enough changes in the
way I was doing things made doing a reinstall the best option. Began just
backing up my data

Now with stable W2K I did my first reinstall after 6 years on this, my
computer for doing everything but video. Never did a restore. W2k doesn't
have restore points.

HDD are cheap enough now maybe I should reconsider how I back up but my
network has ~600GB that's full. (90% video). This should go down now with
the holiday reruns. Hoping to add another 3-500GB black Friday any way.
Having a computer just for video means it doesn't change very much.
Especially now that MMC development has ended. Probably would be different
if I did everything on one computer. YMMV