AnnHenry Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 I think some may be blaming Webshots prematurely. About the same time you all were writing about webshots, I got a real life computer-destroying virus while I was downloading an applique pattern of a cardinal! These vile people who create viruses design them so that reproduce themselves a million fold in ten seconds, and so that they will go all over the internet. I would have lost everything but didn't because I had a mirror drive. Ask your computer guy about it. A backup drive only has whatever you saved the last time you saved to it, and these will most likely be only what you have in "My Documents." A mirror drive, on the other hand, has exactly everything on your computer. That means every application, every setting, etc., etc., that is on your working hard drive is also on the mirror drive. When you get a virus, it's only a minor inconvenience, not a major catastrophe. The mirror drive gets hooked up to be the new working C:\\ drive, the polluted main drive with the virus gets completely erased, and is then set up to be the mirror drive. Then the stuff from the newly installed C:\\ drive is copied onto the mirror drive, and you're all set, as if nothing ever happened. Not a thing is lost. Nothing has to be reloaded, you haven't lost all your automatic password settings, etc., etc. It's like magic. It was never explained to me when I got my computer (which I had made at PC Club, which is no longer in existence, sob) but they talked me buying it, and I'm thrilled I did even though I didn't understand it at the time. I'm not sure that I have explained it 100% correctly, but I'm close . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnHenry Posted March 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 If nobody ever comments, this will fall off the radar quickly . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne from Guam Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 I never knew that either. What is with the people who create viruses anyway? They need to do more volunteer work, I guess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meg Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 i bet no one is posting because they, like myself, have never heard of it and haven't anything more to add. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeAnn Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 OK, just because I know very little, is a mirror drive something you buy to add on or does it have to be purchased with the computer? And why doesn't the virus attack it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoseCity Quilter Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 I also have never heard of a mirror drive. My computer exptert husband is away right now, plan to ask him about it when i hear from him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 Never heard of a mirror drive. I back everything up on an external hard drive and get CDs for the programs I've downloaded. Need more info on this mirror thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnHenry Posted March 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2010 Having a mirror drive means you have an extra hard drive that is identical to the drive your computer runs off. Everything that your computer needs to run on, and everything you save/every time you save, is stored on both drives. But only one is the working drive, the C:\\ drive, and because it is the working drive, it's the one that gets the virus. The mirror drive just sits in the background keeping a copy of everything but not affected by the virus because it's not the one working the computer. Hope I made that clear. That's the way I understand it. I welcome clarification (and correction if necessary) from those who know more about it. I just finally understand it and was so excited to share my knowledge -- at least what I understand of it. Having a mirror drive is so much better than just having a "backup" drive. I had my computer built with it, so I don't know if you can have one attached later, or how that part works. Not even all computer guys know about it. The guy I regularly take my computer to doesn't know about it and wasn't interested in learning about it. He was able to save everything when I got my virus because I had the mirror drive, but he didn't know how to set it up again as a mirror drive, and has it hooked up as only a backup drive. So I had to call three places before I found some place (Best Buy) that even knows how to do it . . . so I have to take it there to get it working again as a mirror instead of a backup. he repaired my virus (because I had the mirror drive, I didn't lose anything You ladies married to computer guys, please make any necessary corrections. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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