Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "It Was My Time to Reformat and Reinstall" video.

  1. Beginning last fall, had to unexpectedly replace my desktop when it threw a wrong error code (failed mainboard) when it was really, the CMOS battery that had died. But didn't realize that until AFTER the fact. Now I run a 7th gen Core i5 processor from 2017, rather than the 4th gen variant of the same (2013) and in February, bought a replacement laptop for a very old Inspiron from 2006 as pricing out replacement 40GB HDD for SSD would have cost me about as much as purchasing a refurbished laptop as the Inspiron ran IDE instead of SATA, if I could even find new IDE drives (doubt it). The laptop is an 8th gen i5, built in 2019 (early I believe). Both are Dell machines, both bought refurbished, both business class machines at that, running Windows 11, one Pro, the other Home. Both with i5 processors. Anyway, they are both OEM OS's and I still need to create a recovery disk, just not sure if I need 2 or 1 since they run different variants of 11. I have performed backups of both, each on their own drive (spare mechanical 500GB drives I have laying around). The next thing are all the externals on my desktop that are filled with data folders that should be backed up. But before I do that, need to go through documents and what not and consolidate/clean up of unfinished work that I no longer am working on and delete those, then get them all to ONE location, instead of scattered about on several drives. I still have a few pieces of software I need to reinstall, but have most of what I need for now for both machines. Mind you, the laptop does not need as much software as my desktop as it's not my main machine, but is for viewing YT videos at the kitchen table, and other occasional work, and for travel and capturing analog audio from the stereo. Just need a digital interface for that to happen. But all computers will need the occasional cleanup/maintenance and clean out of dust from time to time to keep them running their best. The biggest thing now is I frequently am running 13GB of my 16GB of memory on the desktop, and am thinking of bumping that to 32GB. Eventually, a new build will be in the works that will be something other than a SFF Optiplex, running an i7 processor of at least the 12th gen. First need to update my spreadsheet for that project and then begin to save the money.
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