Welcome. I just came into that trick myself recently, so happy to share.

Thanks, wonko the sane? for the tip with the cloning. That helped a lot!

Heheh.... yes... I don't think a sniper would be very good at making a vaccine... 0.0

All right! Cloning my old HHD to an SSD and then swapping out the drive was successful, it would appear. Finally.

Scientist Perceptor is. Sniper Perceptor less so.

Perceptor would be more responsible.

Oof x~x

He'd cure the virus, but he'd probably commit at least two crimes against nature and weaponize a third in the process.

'Horrible consequences' would most likely happen with Brainstorm...

Totally. And Percy's not even human. XD

Can't do much worse than our current government, I say go for it.

Little do we realize that the Perceptor in question is the Mini-Con combiner.

He would!!!

Horrible consequences? I... Doubt that would happen.

Even if he would come up with the answer by tomorrow.

I'd rather not deal with the horrible but unintended consequences of that.

Lets let Perceptor make a vaccine for COVID-19. Who agrees with me

I'll take your word for it. =D

Although the TV edits of Robocop do contain some hilarity

I can't think of any instance where sanitizing a film is a good thing.

.... and thats a good thing?

I'm watching Predator on Starz! That means it has all the language and gore uncensored!

*grabs popcorn*

*watching everyone argue* O^O

By that logic we might as well just get rid of the Shoutbox wholesale! I'd rather have like 3 or 4 things stuck for a week or so than one person dominating the whole thing (no offense Nevermore).

I would argue that "full of something one doesn't read" and "devoid of reading material" are functionally identical at the end-user level.

If it emptied, it would become empty.

It would be the same effect as if the shoutbox simply emptied once or twice a week.

I don't see how having walls of the same guy on top whenever I go to any page on this site is "refreshing".

I don't know, I find the occasional flushing of the box to be refreshing.

but its gets annoying seeing a wall of text from him that takes up most of the shoutbox

Eh, that's just Nevermore.

@Nevermore: Good rule of thumb is if you feel like you need not just multiple statements but also multiple shouts to make a point, best just make a thread.

Dude, do you just, not know when to stop?

Instead of "I have only ten hours to get all my stuff from place A to place B", it's more like "I temporarily stored 90% of my stuff in easily accessible place C in my spare time, so now I have ten hours to get the remaining 10% of my stuff over to the new place before permanently saying goodbye to the old place".

At these point you two are just repeating what you already said.

Again using my "moving apartments" analogy. If you can store the stuff you don't immediately need for everyday life somewhere else, it reduces the critical time of permanently switching your primary base of residence over to the new place because there's less stuff to move when the time comes.

Well, my main point is that it will speed up the system migration so I have A) less system downtime because there are fewer files to transfer before the new system can be up and running and B) it reduces the risk of something going wrong during the system migration.

If your primary is getting cleaned up anyway cause you were backing stuff up, then yeah, no reason not to. But largely, it's not a necessary step.

It's like you find out that there's a fire going to break out in the house you live in soon, so you find a new place, get your entire Transformers collection into safe storage, and now all that's left are the empty cabinets which you intend to move over to your new place soon. If the fire breaks out before then, sure, you'd need to get new cabinets, but your toys are already out of the danger zone.

At this point, I'm in a "if the old system crashed before the new drive arrives, it will be slightly annoying, not a complete disaster" mood.

I've mostly just backed up my personal files and stuff on the external hard drive. The existing Windows installment is supposed to be directly cloned to the new drive once it arrives.

Who else has ever been so out of it that you've gotten into the shower with your glasses on?

Nope. We've been forced to go with Eclipse. It sucks, and I will continue to call the people in charge of the website fascists until they give me reason to do otherwise.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the new layout either. Fortunately you can stay with the old one though.

So now it matches 90% of the content.

Wow the new Deviantart layout is terrible.

Are you referring to cloning your drive to install into your computer as the replacement, or are you creating an image to restore from should something unforseen occur?

Backing up the data not necessary for running Windows on an external drive for safekeeping, trimming down the old drive to a bare minimum, then migrating the old drive to the new one.

Yes, but it will make direct migration faster, no?