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