Re: SP2 Paranoia

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From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:15:38 -0600

Norton Ghost works well with many.
You may try reinstalling it.

In any event you should always have back-ups of important data, not
just when installing a Service Pack.
If you can not get Ghost working a real basic way to back-up data is
simply copy the data to CD.

Contact HP BEFORE installing a Service Pack, depending on the age of
your computer, there is a fix you should use.

Also see the Service Pack Installation Checklist:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm 

-- 
Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
"Nobody Special" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
message news:03e301c49ab7$624813c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm really paranoid about doing the SP2 update. All the
> Microsoft Knowledge Base articles I read tell me that I
> will need my Windows XP CD ROM if I need to do something
> or other to my system. I have serious problems with that.
> First off, my HP Pavilion Desktop computer didn't come
> with a Windows XP CD. It came with a system restore
> utility instead. Couple of problems with that - what
> happens if my computer won't boot to Windows? How do I get
> to that utility? Plus, the last time I had to do that, it
> reinstalled Windows XP alright - the ORIGIONAL system that
> came with the computer. All my programs and data were
> gone! and it took me four months of headaches to get my
> system back to where it was, and that was because some dll
> file or whatever someplace went capoots. With almost
> 100,000 files presently on my computer, you can appreciate
> why I'm just a tad paranoid about doing anything that
> might make it unusable, especially reading all the horror
> stories out there regarding problems with SP2. So, I guess
> my real question is whether or not there is some
> relatively painless way to back up my system. I have
> Norton Ghost and yesterday decided to do the backup
> process with Ghost. Well, everything went just fine until
> the last (10th) CD when Norton Ghost crashed and wouldn't
> restart from where it left off. As you might imagine, I
> was just a tad more than pi**ed off. I proceeded to
> uninstall Norton Ghost and lo and behold, this morning I
> noticed that all my System Restore points had gone
> byebyes. Would one of you highly informed tech types
> please help me out here with some good advice? I'd really
> really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

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