There are two extremes when using a computer these days: in the blue corner we have access everything remotely and in the red corner we have take everything with you. Most solutions appear at various levels of compromise between the two.<\/p>\n
My recent attempts at “taking everything with you” are proving quite successful, albeit with one caveat. My 1TB hard drive may be suffering from hardware issues and require a re-format. It has led to several nasty messages from VMware workstation about not being able to write memory. This drive is the one that contains all my VMs. A means to back up the hard-drive is certainly required! Luckily it seems like a straightforward copy of the files works, but I have not tried to “restore” them yet.<\/p>\n
After running chkdsk on the hard drive connected to the host, booting the VM caused Windows to run it’s own chkdsk on the C: drive. So far everything seems to be ok but regular backups will be continued!<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum I finished a remote access trial of \u00a0“gotomypc” http:\/\/www.gotomypc.co.uk\/remote_access\/remote_access<\/a>. Very stable, performant and easy. The one drawback being cost. So I am about to try some other solutions. “logmein” is next on the list\u00a0https:\/\/secure.logmein.com\/<\/a>. It’s free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are two extremes when using a computer these days: in the blue corner we have access everything remotely and in the red corner we have take everything with you. Most solutions appear at various levels of compromise between the … Continue reading