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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Tom's advice is very good. Around here
we clone each Windows drive onto a spare disk, using Achronis, and
once a year we make new clones and swap them to make sure they
work. Also, we have to keep all the older XP controllers on a
protected internal network. Some instrument vendors will do this
as part of their routine service, but you really can't trust
anyone but yourself.<br>
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Yale Institute of Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering <br>
<a href="http://nano.yale.edu">nano.yale.edu</a>
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On 08/19/2015 10:51 PM, Thomas Lohman wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:55D540B2.20902@mtl.mit.edu" type="cite">Hi,
<br>
<br>
Your best bet would be to make complete OS disk images of the
computer's disk if possible. There are freely available products
that will allow you to do this. Storing multiple copies of these
images on a file server or offline storage somewhere would then
allow you to restore the entire image if for example the existing
disk dies. We've done this here for a number of our older tools
as well as research group owned tools.
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<blockquote type="cite">With the death of windows XP most
equipment vendors have been forced to
<br>
stop supporting their own software that runs tools on that
platform.
<br>
Since some of us cannot afford to upgrade our entire enterprise
with
<br>
typically new PC’s with vendor specific interface hardware and
software
<br>
is there a method to share obsolete applications without the
fear of
<br>
repercussions from the vendors? I understand the need for
licensing new
<br>
supported software, but once a company washes it’s hands of a
product
<br>
and offers no support other than to sell you a newer version can
owners
<br>
that paid once already share copies to keep running for a while?
<br>
<br>
For example, if we had a failed Window XP PC on a Dektak 8 and
needed to
<br>
reload the software and drivers to run our perfectly good Dektak
could
<br>
someone share a copy of that software?
<br>
<br>
Just curious.
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Mark Heiden
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<br>
NanoFab Cleanroom Manager
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Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
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University of California, Riverside
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951-827-2551
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