Re: System Restore

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From: Ken Blake (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 01/24/05


Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:09:54 -0700

In news:%23jfu3WaAFHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
Sam <Sam@NoSpam.com> typed:

> I have used System Restore to restore to an earlier time. I
> was
> under the impression that personal data files would not be
> deleted. However, I have found that after a system restore,
> folders and files
> created AFTER the restore point but BEFORE the system restore
> operation were deleted.

That's not correct. System Restore didn't do this. If this was
your experience, look elsewhere than System Restore for the
source of your problem.

-- 
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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