Re: Boot Problem

Gary: I went back to the AVG programs and, though there's no "Excluded Files"
as such, there is a way to exclude scanning certain folders and file
extensions. Thanks for urging me to do that.

"Gary Brandenburg" wrote:

I'm not familiar with AVG Antivirus,Marty-I use Avast & in its settings,there's an
option to exclude certain files.
I have it set to exclude the scanning of my KBuninstall files(there's a lot of them)
to cut down on the scan time.

You'll have to open the program,as if you were going to run a scan,& check to see if
AVG has that option.

I'm glad that you got that tracking.log thing sorted out & thank you for posting the
methods for doing so.
This will,also help any others on here that may run into the same problem.

Also,it probably wouldn't hurt to run a defrag, since you removed all of your restore
points,(they tend to take up a lot of disk space),which is now *empty* space on your
HDD.


~Gary


"Marty" <Marty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gary: Cloning the clone didn't change the fact A.S. and A.V. hang up on the
original drive. However, I executed one of the procedures described on the
AVG Forum blog in the link you gave me; viz., disable system restore, boot in
safe mode, delete "tracking.log" file, boot in regular mode and enable System
Restore. Scans work!!! As for "Excluded Files", I don't find that option in
either AVG Anti-Spyware or AVG Free Anti-Virus. Am I missing something?

"Gary Brandenburg" wrote:

Great, Marty! I knew you would like it.You're very welcome.

That's a good idea to clone the cloned HDD since it's not hanging on that
particular
file with that drive.
Is there any way to put that file in your "Excluded Files" (to scan)?

~Gary

"Marty" <Marty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gary: Acronis did the job as advertised. Takes it a long time to set up, but
then it speeds through the process much faster than "Data Lifeguard Tools."
AVG Anti-Spyware and AVG Anti-Virus both scan the SVI folder on the cloned
drive without a problem; but on the source drive, they still hang up there. I
think I'll do a clone from the clone and see if that will solve the problem.
Thanks again for your help.

"Marty" wrote:

Gary: Sorry for the delay in answering this. 'Twas received after I had
retired last night. The AVG blog is specific to me since I use AVG Free 7.5
and AVG Anti-Spyware. I haven't tried the solution yet, either with that or
with Acronis. I'll let you know what happens when I have done them. Thanks
for your help.

"Gary Brandenburg" wrote:

I don't know what happened with my last reply but it wasn't compressed like
that
when
I sent it.
It should have read like this:

Google is your friend:

http://tinyurl.com/6xf9gz



According to this:

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-2000-xp/471866-c-system-volume-information-2.html

this is a file that you should not remove;
<You can safely delete anything EXCEPT the "MountPointManagerRemoteDatabase"
file
andthe "tracking.log" file.>

Also take a look here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/11/20/55764.aspx

for more on restorepoints & how to remove them(other than the ways that I
previously
told you).

Take a look on down the page on the Google search.

You're not alone.

~Gary





"Marty" <Marty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gary: I was able to delete the file in Safe Mode but it returned with the
same effects after regular re-boot. Looks like it's a file put there by the
system. Thanks for your advice. Any other suggestions?

"Gary Brandenburg" wrote:

The System Volume folder is what contains your restore points.
You can either run Disk Cleanup,then click on the "More Options" tab &
remove
all,but
the most recent, restore point or disable System Restore,altogether, which
will
remove all restore points.
Otherwise-have you tried to remove the entry while in Safe Mode?

~Gary

"Marty" <Marty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gary: Thanks for the info. Perhaps I'll give Acronis a try. But, there's
another problem I've encountered, namely, the file "tracking.log" in
System
Volume Information folder. It won't allow a Spyware or virus scan. Hangs
them
up so they can't even be canceled. Even just clicking on it, either to
open
it or check its properties, completely hangs up the computer requiring a
manual shutdown and restart. I tried deleting it from C:>. Was able to
change
the attributes OK, but it wouldn't delete. So I wonder what will happen
when
Acronis reaches that point in the cloning. I guess I can try and see. In
the
meantime, do you or anyone else who reads this know a way to get that
file
deleted?

"Gary Brandenburg" wrote:

Marty-
I just recently used the Data Lifeguard Tools on my parents PC to
transfer
their
HDD
to a bigger 1 & some of the things didn't make the transfer too
well(even
though
it
claimed that everything did,except the restore points & the hibernation
files).
After having to reinstall certain programs & editing the boot files,I
finally
got
it
to what I thought was a good running condition & left it with them.
Well,since I didn't know what other problems might surface while I
wasn't
there,&
not
wanting to take any chances,the next day I downloaded the trial version
of
Acronis
11
their machine & used the disk cloning operation & when it rebooted,
this
time,there
were no problems with anything .
I had Acronis Home 10 on my machine & I can vouch that it's a great
backup
program(&
highly recommended here),but never used it for anything else till then.
I
ended
up
buying Acronis 11 for my own machine & installing my copy of Acronis 10
on
theirs.
Give it a try-I think that you'll have better success with Acronis True
Image
over
the Data Lifeguard Tools.

~Gary



"Marty" <Marty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, I tried Safe Mode. Same results.

Need to say this is an HDD that I cloned using WD's "Data Lifeguard
Tools",
which reported no problem in the process.

"Ron Badour" wrote:

Did you try to boot in safe mode or from the last known good
configuration?
If not, try tapping the F8 key when the boot sequence begins.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP 1997 - 2008


"Marty" <Marty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OS=XP-Sp2. Boot proceeds no farther than the screen where "Windows
is
starting up" usually appears. That screen appears, but that
statement
doesn't. The HDD appears to be trying to do something, but nothing
happens.
Suggestions and\or directions will be appreciated.


















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