Re: GO Back causes blue screen of death

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Poprivet wrote:
William B. Lurie wrote:
Poprivet wrote:
William B. Lurie wrote:
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Pop, I don't believe that I have any 'Restore Points'. I mean,
not as such. All of my backups are full system GHOST backup
drive images, located always on a different hard drive,
accessible and catalogued by GHOST. They are, of course,
all listed as Restore Points in GHOST.

To my knowledge, I have no "GoBack" and did not load it when
installing NSW2006 Premier back in late 2005. I can't even turn
off GHOST while running normal because NSW's AV activities are
(unfortunately) intertwined with it. I cannot selectively boot
with only portions of NSW loading (or if you can tell me how,
please do!).
Bill L.


Hi Bill,

First let me correct an error of omission on my part. When I said "restore points", I meant "System Restore Points". The ones available under Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools.

I recehecked, Pop. That's been permanently disabled since I got this
PC and set it up. And in installing NSW 2006 Premier, I intentionally
did not install GoBack.
As the name implies, that's for
rolling back System Files. GoBack has some issues with those and describes when/how it happens in Help. It can wipe out the System Restore points, but that's moot since you're not running it.
If you're not concerned with using the System Restore Points, and personally I'd keep them if I wasn't using GoBack, you should/could go into your system and turn them OFF. By default, the System Restore Points are occupying something like 10% of the space on each hard drive letter you have. Turning off those restore points saves some disk space.
Right. No prob, they're off.
But, keep in mind, that they ARE handy at times. Should something go awry with the registry (bad install, etc), you cna easily recover from it by going back to the last restore point created before you did the install, where Ghost will do the same and lots more, but the image is most likely going to be yesterday or whevever the last time you had it run was.
Yes, but I always have a recent enough GHOST/Clone to fall back on.
Personally, I turned off System REstore Points on ALL drives except my boot drive (silly to have it on the other drives anyway), set it to only use 5% of the disk space, and then set Ghost to, on top of scheduled backups, do a backup whenever it sees something being installed. That way I've backed up the same thing a Restore Point would plus all the other data I've created. System Restore ONLY restores System files, basically the Registry, simply put. But this way Ghost does everything that the System Restore Points plus GoBack would, or almost close enough to be more than reasonable at least.
My full clone takes longer but it's always there on a separate drive.

Actually, you can boot with only portions of NSW working. The first place to stop is the control panel's Options button. Not everything is controllable there, but most is.

You may not be aware, and should be careful if this is brand new to you, that all the various things available from the NSW control panel are in reality all different installations, each with their own installation/removal programs. The control panel does nothing but provide shortcuts to start the various other programs it shows. You can run those same apps without using the control panel.
So, the AV and Ghost and Speed disk, System Doctor, Disk Doctor, etc etc, are all actually separate, free standing programs is what I'm trying to say.

For Ghost, you can go in and easily turn it off. Go into the Protection area and turn off protection on all your drives; Ghost won't run if there is nothing for it to do. Of course it will still load, but it won't run. But, I would NOT recommend doing that; Ghost is too valuable a program to mess with, IMO.

Pehaps if you stated a question more specifically it could be answered more completely. I've pretty much guessed at a lot of things here, including your computer expertise.

AFAIK GoBack IS part of NSW, by the way. At least it's part of mine (2006 version), but I know there are several variations of what you can buy. If you have it installed, it's wasting a lot of disk space, 10% again I think, so you should make certain you don't have it installed. If you do, uninstall it; Ghost will take care of things fine for you.

HTH

Yes, and thanks. We're surely on the same channel.
WBL

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