Last One To Post Wins [168]

Now we see you were just playing Chicken.

Wynona said:

Good afternoon/evening, folks. It's 74° and sunny with a high of 79° later on.

Congrats on winning #167, Thomas.

And, finally, here's what's been keeping me AWOL for the most part:

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The Magnificent Seven . . . Chicks, that is . . .

I forgot to put a perch in before I moved 'em into their new digs and had to install it while they chicks were in residence.

Before I could get the perch stabilized, chicks were jumping up onto it. Impatient little brats! One of them wanted to eat the bit off my screw gun! They're not scared of anything! They jumped onto the side of the pen, and when I said, "Get back in there," they did!

Best group of chicks I ever had!

Afternoon Wynona, Gracie, and Lucy. Nice chicken coup.

Wynona said:

Good afternoon/evening, folks. It's 74° and sunny with a high of 79° later on.

Congrats on winning #167, Thomas.

And, finally, here's what's been keeping me AWOL for the most part:

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The Magnificent Seven . . . Chicks, that is . . .

I forgot to put a perch in before I moved 'em into their new digs and had to install it while they chicks were in residence.

Before I could get the perch stabilized, chicks were jumping up onto it. Impatient little brats! One of them wanted to eat the bit off my screw gun! They're not scared of anything! They jumped onto the side of the pen, and when I said, "Get back in there," they did!

Best group of chicks I ever had!

Afternoon Wynona, Gracie, Lucy, and Magnificent Seven They looks great Wynona

Evening.

Went on a house call today. No internet. Their cellular internet device had failed. I knew of a used one so got that all lined up. Internet restored but then I noticed the computer fan was really running hard.

Does anyone own a vacuum up here?





Nice chicken coop Wynona. I guess from this point they will stay outside?


Dinner time in the north

Safe safe everyone.

I have a Macrium question; my students are really confused on this one, and I don't exactly know the answer to their confusion:

First, we see a WinPE heading with no mention of WinRE, which is the default in Windows 7 forward when building rescue media.

Here's what we see so far:

Rescue media and Windows PE (My Emphasis).

If you lose your Windows operating system, you can start your PC using Macrium Reflect rescue media on CD, DVD, or USB stick. This makes creating rescue media the first thing you need to do with Macrium Reflect. It contains a bootable, lightweight version of Windows and a full version of Macrium Reflect.

This lightweight version of Windows is called the Windows Recovery Environment (also known as Windows RE or WinRE) and is supplied with Windows 7 and later operating systems. For Windows XP, Vista and systems without WinRE, Reflect will download the Windows Pre-installation Environment (also known as Windows PE or WinPE) directly from Microsoft.

When we see "Rescue media and Windows PE", but the first paragraph is about WinRE (Rescue Media) rather than WinPE, it's rather startling, to say the least. Seemingly, as an afterthought, we're finally told about WinPE.

Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. In the next quote, paragraphs 1 & 2 are the same as above.

Next, I find something even more confusing, in that I'm not sure if I'm supposed to build WinPE or WinRE rescue media:

Caution

The first thing you need to do after installing Macrium Reflect is create Rescue Media

If you lose your Windows operating system, you can start your PC using Macrium Reflect rescue media on CD, DVD, or USB stick. This makes creating rescue media the first thing you need to do with Macrium Reflect. It contains a bootable, lightweight version of Windows and a full version of Macrium Reflect.

This lightweight version of Windows is called the Windows Recovery Environment (also known as Windows RE or WinRE) and is supplied with Windows 7 and later operating systems. For Windows XP, Vista and systems without WinRE, Reflect will download the Windows Pre-installation Environment (also known as Windows PE or WinPE) directly from Microsoft.

You have the option of restoring to a new system or virtual machine using Macrium ReDeploy to reconfigure your Windows installation for the new hardware.

Windows PE hardware support

The Macrium Rescue Environment needs to include support for your hardware such as USB ports, network interfaces, and in particular for your storage device if for example you use RAID disks. The default Windows PE environment supports a good selection of hardware and you can add support for further devices. When Macrium Reflect creates a rescue CD or USB, it analyses your system hardware and tries to locate drivers for unsupported devices by looking on your system. If it can't find appropriate drivers, Macrium Reflect prompts you to provide drivers. You can provide drivers by finding driver packages on the local hard drive, looking for driver CDs supplied with the system, or downloading drivers from the web. After you provide these additional drivers, Macrium Reflect adds them to the Windows PE environment.

Note: You cannot add support for booting media because booting takes place before drivers are loaded. For example, if your CD drive is connected via an unsupported SCSI interface card or your boot menu lies on an unsupported RAID array, then the Windows PE cannot boot. Booting using a USB stick is a good workaround in this case as all USB 2/3 interfaces are supported by default.

CD, DVD and USB rescue media

You can boot your computer into Windows PE from a CD, DVD, USB stick or USB attached external hard disk. For convenience or for automated restores to your system disk, you can add Windows PE to a boot menu that's displayed when your system first starts. Although, do not rely upon this local copy as a rescue mechanism because it could be lost if you suffered hard disk failure or corruption leaving you without a method for rescuing your system.

Macrium Reflect creates custom Windows PE systems for each installation type by downloading the required components from Microsoft.

Can anyone explain this so that my students won't be as totally confused as I am?

Thanks in advance.

too quiet in here, so.....

Good evening TC ...been a quiet day.

OldMike65 said:

Good evening TC ...been a quiet day.

You must have been busy then.

COMPUTIAC said:

You must have been busy then.

Been messing around with the Buick ...Hi Bob