In Praise of Clonezilla

“To really understand this article, you have to understand how
things work around our house. It’s pretty simple – I am forbidden,
under penalty of grievous bodily harm, from touching my partner’s
computer unless I am specifically asked to do so. It is a rather
old HP desktop, which we got second-hand through a friend (thanks
again Ueli, it’s still working great), and it does exactly what she
wants. It is running Windows XP, which bothers me a bit, but did I
mention that it does exactly what she wants, she knows exactly how
to use it, and if I attempt to change or “improve” anything on it I
am likely to lose some vital bodily parts? In all honesty, seeing
what people have gone through with “updates” to Windows Vista,
Windows 7, MS Office 2007 and MS Office 2010, it would be difficult
to argue that her attitude is wrong, or that it has not paid off by
saving her a massive amount of lost time over the past four or five
years, and what, exactly has she missed out on?

“Anyway, she recently asked me to take a look at it, because it
was complaining about low disk space. I checked, and sure enough it
had something silly like 400 MB of free space. I looked a little
deeper, and saw that it had a 40 GB IDE disk drive! Yikes! Yes, you
read that right.”

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