A tragic winter time story.....
 

After a wonderful year with WIN10PRO.....trouble was afoot.


Daniel had a problem with a MIDI controller- (it was user error) - Daniel Didn't make a backup
Daniel manually modified his drivers in device manager - and didn't make a backup
Daniel messed up his Ethernet Control Surface somehow - and didn't make a backup
Daniel couldn't get PT to recognize his Surface without crashing - Daniel wished he had a backup at this point.

Daniel didn't backup his system drive regularly
Daniel didn't think about this till it was too late

Don't be like Daniel

Backup / Clone your hard drives - it will happen to you.

Don't be like Daniel

Re: A tragic winter time story.....
 

Sounds like a fun Wednesday ;)

A tragic winter time story.....
 

Oh man, I’ve been jacking with this since Last Friday

I had to make sure I knew how to use the backup software, then backing up and restoring .

Now I reinstalled windows last night, it was pretty quick like 30 minutes in total....

But the real time drag is reinstalling all the programs

I’ve done
Avid (12.5.1)
Waves
Plugin Alliance
Universal Audio

And setup my Ethernet port to look at the right driver protocol for my Icon.

Updated windows, I downloaded everything via my cell phone b/c I don’t have internet in the building


And just now made a backup of that

I am not looking forward to installing Kontakt, they don’t make offline Installers anymore

Re: A tragic winter time story.....
 

Kontakt is actually easier with Access, the same for PIA, Waves, FLUX and man Trasher (backup to any folder).

Re: A tragic winter time story.....
 

If you have a fast download speed.....which I don't

Re: A tragic winter time story.....
 

Ay Daniel!

Re: A tragic winter time story.....
 

Pues que hago....


Im pushing just north of 54kb/sec. over my cell network.

- When the studio gets fully built I will call it the ranch because there is literally no internet available here.....That and we have cows..... :D

Re: A tragic winter time story.....
 

(Hey Daniel - ouch!!!!)

When you're up'n running again, please cover your exhaust for "next time" with Acronis True Image - let it install all your Programs for you (for a song)!

56196: Windows 10 support in Acronis products
https://kb.acronis.com/content/56196

56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk
https://kb.acronis.com/content/56634

How to clone your disk with Acronis True Image 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bidRa0JMe4

Search eBay - ($16 + Postage) example:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Acronis-Tru...AAAOSw-wFZbgJ~

Force 2018 to be a better year!

Re: A tragic winter time story.....
 

Thank unkJE,

I am working with Paragon at this moment.

I tried Acronis but couldn't get the hang of it....
I also tried Macrium and didn't quite like it either.

Paragon seems to let me do what I want to do....It's even the free one.

Re: A tragic winter time story.....
 

If you haven't already seen it, check out Guitardom/Steve Gilliland's video:
Paragon Recovery Media Builder
Creating Bootable Recovery Media With Paragon Backup and Recovery Free
http://www.pro-tools-pc.com/bootable-recovery-media/

Anal(og) people like me make 3 copies and store 2 off-premises, at different locations.
Even then, I still want to "see a List of all the Product Keys, Serial Numbers and Licenses" - http://www.klinzmann.name/licensecrawler.htm