Re: System Restore creates problems
- From: "Richard Urban [MVP]" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 22:24:12 -0400
If you really want to use something like System Restore - consider Symantec
GoBack 4.0. It is system restore on steroids. The file that retains the
goback information can be made (during the time of installation) to be up to
8 gig in size.
Now, that seems like a lot, but without careful planning you may still run
into the problem where you can only go back 3-4 days (or less). This would
occur if you have many HUGE files, such as movies on the monitored drives.
Delete 2-3 movies and you have used up your goback space. But on a normal
computer, if there is such a thing, GoBack will usually allow you to return
to where you were a month prior. It all depends on YOUR usage.
On my test computer I only monitor the main hard drive which has partitions
C-D-E. All movies, huge CAD files etc are kept on drive F. My Ghost image
files are kept on a removable hard drive. Needless to say I don't monitor
these drives.
Couple GoBack (for short term protection) with an imaging program, such as
Ghost or True Image (for long term protection) and you are fairly bullet
proof.
--
Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
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"masik" <masik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Long story. Here is the short version.
>
> 1) While cleaning C drive, somehow on a VAIO, it stopped recognizing built
> in DVD RW and CD ROM drives. My computer does not show existence of DVD
> and
> CD drives.
> 2) So I decided to use system restore and restored it to a point one month
> back
> 3) After restore, I went to My computer to see if DVD and CD drives are
> visible. They are not. So I guessed that restore did not work
> 3) I then did "un-restore" to get the system back to today's state. It
> said
> it worked. But after this "un-restore" my OEM installed Norton Internet SW
> does not load. It says it can't find the SW. So, I thought fine I will go
> to
> their site and download it and re-install, but then I find out my IE is
> not
> working.
>
> If I go to command prompt, with cmd, and do "ipconfig" it is fine. I can
> ping yahoo.com so I know connectivity is fine. But when I start IE, it
> says
> server not found so now I have lost Norton Internet SW (firewall,
> anti-virus
> etc) and I can't go to internet since IE is not working. What a mess.
>
> Not sure how to get out of this. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance for help.
>
> Note :: I am using XP, to be specific Media Center Edtion 2005. But this
> is
> not a MCE issue, seems to be generic XP issue.
.
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