Hi all.
I'd love some help on this please
I have a machine, specs below, that I need to use for graphic work - but I also want to let my son use it for gaming.
The problem to solve is that i dont want any cross-conamination. I dont want his spurious website visits to catch anything that might contaminate my work.
I have pondered a dual boot.
Buy some more drives and give him his own bootable drive and me mine. however I then realised that when he boots in it will still 'see' my disk drive and could still contaminate it.
After some research im considering an external dock system - one that I can eject each drive depending on who is using the machine.
ive also considered that I could keep my work files on ejectable media - usb etc - but if his useage corrupts the o/s and so the use of my software, i dont really want to have to keep wiping it down and rebuilding it.
But im not sure if that is the most efficient and cost effective way to go. - we have very little budget - or even if it might cause any problems i cannot foresee?
Im hoping someone here will be able to share some wisdom and tell me the best way to use this one machine as two - a gaming machine and a work machine - that cannot infect each other.
I hope ive been clear on my question. thanks for your time.
SPECS
3.07 gigahertz Intel Core i7 950
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
8192 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Hyper-threaded (8 total)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. Rampage III Extreme Rev 1.xx @133mhtz
12280 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
SanDisk SDSSDA240G (240.06 GB)
SAMSUNG HD154UI [Hard drive]
Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601.24106)
Avira - Antivirus
I'd love some help on this please
I have a machine, specs below, that I need to use for graphic work - but I also want to let my son use it for gaming.
The problem to solve is that i dont want any cross-conamination. I dont want his spurious website visits to catch anything that might contaminate my work.
I have pondered a dual boot.
Buy some more drives and give him his own bootable drive and me mine. however I then realised that when he boots in it will still 'see' my disk drive and could still contaminate it.
After some research im considering an external dock system - one that I can eject each drive depending on who is using the machine.
ive also considered that I could keep my work files on ejectable media - usb etc - but if his useage corrupts the o/s and so the use of my software, i dont really want to have to keep wiping it down and rebuilding it.
But im not sure if that is the most efficient and cost effective way to go. - we have very little budget - or even if it might cause any problems i cannot foresee?
Im hoping someone here will be able to share some wisdom and tell me the best way to use this one machine as two - a gaming machine and a work machine - that cannot infect each other.
I hope ive been clear on my question. thanks for your time.
SPECS
3.07 gigahertz Intel Core i7 950
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
8192 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Hyper-threaded (8 total)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. Rampage III Extreme Rev 1.xx @133mhtz
12280 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
SanDisk SDSSDA240G (240.06 GB)
SAMSUNG HD154UI [Hard drive]
Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601.24106)
Avira - Antivirus