TPD
the poor dad
I had a HD failure in my 5 year old iMac this week. I ordered a new drive and install tool kit from OWC, who seem to know their Mac ####. Yeah - the install of the HD on the iMac took a bit longer than it does on a regular PC tower - about 45 minutes for me. But where Apples shines IMO is the restore. Because of the seamless TimeMachine backups, in less than 10 hours, I had completely restored my 650gb HD to the same state as prior to the failure! No muss, no fuss.
My question is - having mainly dealt with Apple's ecosystem for the last 5 years at home, and only recently upgrading to Windows 7 for certain applications at my business - does Windows have anything similar to Apple's Time Machine? Before Apple, I recall when switching hard drives with Windows, it seemed to take days for a complete system restore - finding all CDs from programs purchased, then waiting for all updates to take place on said programs after the new install. A royal pain! And then the migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 was just as painful since all data was wiped from the HD for a new install - same thing - installing programs from scratch with the CD. Though the data I have on my Windows PCs at the business is not quite as important to me, I should probably have a backup plan. Suggestions for an easy 'cruise-control' type backup with Windows 7??
My question is - having mainly dealt with Apple's ecosystem for the last 5 years at home, and only recently upgrading to Windows 7 for certain applications at my business - does Windows have anything similar to Apple's Time Machine? Before Apple, I recall when switching hard drives with Windows, it seemed to take days for a complete system restore - finding all CDs from programs purchased, then waiting for all updates to take place on said programs after the new install. A royal pain! And then the migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 was just as painful since all data was wiped from the HD for a new install - same thing - installing programs from scratch with the CD. Though the data I have on my Windows PCs at the business is not quite as important to me, I should probably have a backup plan. Suggestions for an easy 'cruise-control' type backup with Windows 7??
