I have been reading a lot about EaseUS Todo Backup and it’s free so I thought I would give it a try.

It works wonderfully what SyncToy took 6 hours to do EaseUS did in 1 hour 45 minutes.

It is rather easy to use, one thing I didn’t realize is that it saves you jobs that you start. But if you don’t start it you will need to create the job from scratch.

Not a big deal if you save everthing to where Windows think you should, but I like to save my data to another hard drive just cuz I’m paranoid. I have had drives go bad and lost everything.

Sort of a “Belt and Suspenders” thing.

You can get it at their website or just go to the CNET EaseUS download page. That’s where EaseUS sends you any way.

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Copy and paste the line above into Google search.

Just make sure you have plenty of Ram and Processing power. Or don’t forget about it in another browser window or it will slow browser  way down.

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See it here

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See all the Details here

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Patty O’Furniture ;^)

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It was a hand-me-down form one of here friends, pretty old but it still is usable for email, web browsing, and FaceBook stuff

The hard drive was full of junk and so was the case. Here is a shot from inside the box. I don’t think it had ever been cleaned out.

That is a solid “carpet” of dust on the floor of the box. At least they didn’t smoke. Here is a shot from a computer from the home of a smoker from an earlier post.

See the brown color, that’s from the tar, smoke, and nicotine. Yummy

The computer above was easy enough to clean, just a vigorous blowing the one below took rubbing alcohol and q-tips to get all the crud off.

Maybe I should send this into Mike Rowe for a Dirty Job!

Good luck and Good Night!

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As luck would have it I couldn’t get it to install on a virtual machine and my test box bit the dust. Bad Mobo.

So here is the next best thing I found this on installing Windows 8 using VirtulaBox, which I still haven’t got to work.

Virtually Windows 8: How to set up the Consumer Preview in VirtualBox on ZDNet

or

Windows 8 Install On Old or New PC – Things You Should Know

Good Luck, client just dropped of a sick PC so it to work for me. I guess I will play with Windows 8 later.

Like I said the Best Plans of Mice or Men!

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First lets go get the download, Type in Windows 8 Consumers Preview. Then click on the “Windows 8 Consumers” it will bring right to the right place.

Click on “Get it Now”

Click the “Download Windows 8 Customer Preview”

Save it to a folder, I added a Windows 8 folder to save it to.

Click Save.

If you haven’t set you browser to ask where you want your downloads, it will be in Documents > Downloads.

Navigate in Explorer to the place the file was saved. Then double click on the file.

You won’t really be installing the program this just gets you started on the real download.

Of course Windows will ask if you are sure, you will even see the “Small Death” of the User Account Control, when all goes black except for the little window asking if you are really, really sure.

Then it begins in earnest, Windows 8 starts running a Compatibility Check

Looks like bad news click “See the compatibility report”

That doesn’t look too bad. I think I can live with that at least in this version of Windows 8. I printed the report for later troubleshooting and then clicked “Close”

Next we will Copy and Paste the Product Key.

Be sure to print it out too, or you may need to cancel the setup, go back and open Windows 7 then print out the Product Key.

I’m just giving you a little heads up. It’s not like I had to do that, just a little heads up.

Now we get to the download. Click “Next”

Now we START the download. It took about 20 to 25 minutes on my Uverse connection

When the download is finished It starts getting the files ready.

I didn’t want to install over my current version of Window 7 so I clicked on “Install on another partition”

I chose “ISO file to burn to a DVD” then click “Save”.

Save it to your Windows 8 folder then click “Save” again.

Be sure to Copy and Paste you Product Key into Note Pad or some other word document and print it out. Click “Finish”.

OK that is it for getting the file ISO now burn it to a disk (that’s a whole other How To) and get ready to do the install.

That will be tomorrows post. It’s getting late and it’s time for bed.

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So a quick search on Google turned up this great post on Jared Heinrichs blog

It worked great, way to go Jared!!

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