![]() I did manage to catch a few lines, and I must not be smart enough because I don't know what "Loading NVIDIA Video Driver" and "Setting System Clock" have to do with reading bits from a disk and writing them to another disk.Īfter the frantic scrolling is done, you are presented with an ever so nice menu screen, designed by a colorblind handicapped rhinoceros with a Sinus problem. When booting the Clonezilla CD, it shows you what it's doing my scrolling text accross your screen at a speed at which you need bionical implants to be able to follow. You may take a pause here to reflect on that if you like. There is absolutely no way that normal people are ever getting this thing to work. Why? I will tell you why! For people who are so smart that they can read partition tables before morning coffee, understand 32 different partition types, and can do on-the-fly custom compression of a datastream to an USB disk, they shure have never heard of "user experience". Please note that I am NOT linking to the Clonezilla site in this article, which is for your own good. ![]() Because of earlier problems with Norton Ghost and SATA drives, I decided to give Clonezilla a try. I figured that this should be no problem, since the machines were exactly identical. My brother also was fed up with Vista, and asked if we could mirror the harddisk in my dad's machine to his machine. The display was at a nice resolution, and it could produce a sort of audio, and the prio 1 software packages were installed and working (mainly some simple calendar and assembly-development tools). After 2 weeks of fiddling with drivers, the machine was "up and limping". The shiny new hardware was so new, that the XP divers were hard to find, if they existed at all. So my dad bought a Windows XP install CD and started installing on his machine. Having just spent a lot of cash on these now paperweights, a new Apple was not an option (hey, I tried). The shiny 3D effects had to go in favour of something that "just worked". An even bigger problem was that some of the older XP programs my dad had been using did no longer work on the shiny new Vista machine. Although the hardware specs of these computers were terrific, the performance of Windows Vista was "moderate" to say the least. ![]() A few weeks ago, my Dad and my Brother both bought identical Windows Vista machines, at the same shop, at the same time. ![]()
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