China DOS Union

This Is How I Taught a Man in His Sixties to Maintain His Computer
Lu Xuejun 2001.7.30

A good friend’s father is sixty-three this year. With little to amuse himself in old age, he bought a computer to trade stocks in his spare time and go online to read the news, but the computer often would not boot because of virus infection or accidental misoperation. Since the old gentleman’s computer knowledge was absolutely zero, I came up with the idea of using GHOST software to make him an automatic recovery backup floppy disk. When the computer acts up, he only needs to boot it once with this floppy and it’s OK.
The principle is very simple. First divide the hard disk into two partitions, C and D. Install WINDOWS98 and all application software into drive C, then use GHOST software to make the entire C drive into an image file and put it in drive D (for example, with the filename c.gho).
Make a DOS boot disk (so that it can recognize the FAT32 file format, it is recommended to use the DOS that comes with WIN98), copy GHOST.EXE to that floppy, edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file in the root directory of the floppy, and add the following line:
GHOST -CLONE,MODE=PLOAD,SRC=D:\C.GHO:1,DST=1:1 -SURE -RB
Keep this floppy safe. If the computer has problems again later, just boot the computer with this floppy, and GHOST will automatically restore the original contents of drive C (of course, this requires that the C.GHO file on drive D has not been damaged).
Just in case, I made two such floppies for the old gentleman.
From then on, the man in his sixties no longer needed to ask anyone to maintain his computer.

　

I help a coworker install the system, install the software, upgrade it, apply patches, optimize it, and after everything is done, tidy up the hard disk, then finally go back into DOS and make a ghost backup file. (This has become my habit whenever I install a system for someone else).
Then one day my coworker told me the computer had problems, this symptom and that symptom. After listening, I said, wouldn’t it be OK if you just restored the backup back to drive C? (Now when I run into a computer failure, as long as it’s some inexplicable problem, I don’t even want to solve it, I just restore the backup directly.) While thinking to myself that teaching him how to make the ghost backup file back then had been for nothing, I pressed “win+F" and searched for the old win2k.gho, but couldn’t find it?! My coworker had an innocent look on his face: I didn’t delete it.... I nearly collapsed! I handed him a fully automatic system installation disc. Go install it yourself!
I’m dizzy S.

That’s how it is. If he doesn’t understand and is honest, then it’s easy enough to handle; otherwise... sigh.

I feel exactly the same!

For dealing with this kind of person, you might as well install a hard disk restore card for him. Every boot gives the most perfect system!