Re: Help for ntbackup
- From: CAM <CAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 05:14:01 -0800
Thanks for all your help. I have been able to get what help I need for
ntbackup in other ways but was pursuing this as I thought it might be an
indicator of other problems. As long as everything else seems to be working
I may as well forget it for now. If I have worse problems I can use my
slipstreamed CD to do a reinstall.
--
CAM
"Kerry Brown" wrote:
I'm out of ideas. At least you have a slipstreamed CD of XP now :-).
--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca
"CAM" <CAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7716DE42-B36F-4EE8-98AB-9C415A831F40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the help. I created the slipsteamed CD and then ran sfc
/scannow.
I then uninstalled ntbackup and reinstalled it. Then I opened ntbackup
and
tried the help. Again it often caused ntbackup to be "Not responding".
Any
other suggestions to get Help working.
--
CAM
"Kerry Brown" wrote:
You can download SP2 here.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en
You can then use it to create a slipstreamed CD and add SP2 to your
install
CD.
http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.shtml
Alternatively make sure your pc is physically disconnected from the
Internet. Unplug the network or modem cable to be sure. Install from your
XP
CD then install SP2 from a CD with the above download.
--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca
"CAM" <CAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:F04DBD39-CA6B-4AA3-AC98-F6D7AB998AF7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I did get the ntbackup program off my XP home edition CD. That was no
problem. I have done the chkdsk /r and no problem was detected. I
have
to
look into doing a repair-reinstall of XP before I attempt it. Besides
the
help not working consistenly for ntbackup my internet explorer has a
consistent issue of giving an error message when opening but then
opening
and
working okay. As I mentioned in one of my previous messages I have the
CD
for XP 1st edition so am concerned about using that for a
repair-reinstall.
--
CAM
"CAM" wrote:
esI will try CHKDSK and the XP repair install when I find time in the
next
day or two. I may have to go to the link you gave as my CD is for XP
Home
1st edition and I have upgraded to 2nd edition. Do this make much
difference?
--
CAM
"Poprivet" wrote:
CAM wrote:
Thanks - I have gotten Treu image and that will work BUT I still
have
the NTbackup help locking up. Any suggestions for this?
"CAM" <CAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9A022B1A-D795-4774-AC08-402D4337440C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am succcesfully using NTbackup to back up the system sate and
documents and
settings to an external hard drive but cannot get the Help to
work
consistantly. Before I am able to get to the topic I want it is
"not responding" and I have to close the application. How can I
correct this? I
want to know if copying "All information on this computer" is
equivalent to a
disk copy of the hard drive. I suspect that it is not.
It isn't remotely useful in this way. It's more misleading that
useful.
If not, how do I go
about getting a backup copy of the hard drive?
Get a decent disk imaging program like Acronis TrueImage, which
will
provide you with a disk image you can transfer to another drive
and
make bootable in short order.
HTH
-pk
--
CAM
Congrats on sticking to your point <g>. About the only advice I
have
unfortunately would be to do a Repair Install of XP so that none of
your
data will be disturbed. IMO you're wise to look further into this
since the
symptom you see may likely be only one of many possible scenarios.
Too
many
people jump to bandaids and just ignore the underlying problems, and
then
regret it later.
This could be as simple as some repairable table corruption on the
disk.
Have you run chkdsk on that drive? If not, I'd suggest doing it
first.
CHKDSK /r is the best option to use. chkdsk /?at the command prompt
will
get you a list of the options if you're curious. The /r will try to
recover
data from any bad sectors it finds where /f will not.
Since it's the boot disk, chkdsk will ask you to delay the chkdsk
to
the
next boot; let it, and then do a Restart. Chkdsk will run upon
bootup.
"All information on this computer" and a "disk copy" are a couple of
those
terms that can mean different things to different people. All
Information
On This Computer would be a copy of the disk, which in turn can be a
disk
copy operation. If however Disk Copy means putting everything back
into the
same sectors/blocks on the hard disk, no, it won't do that.
Everything
will
be put back, but it will be put back contiguously as opposed to in
the
same
order it came off in. With some few exceptions that are important
to
the
OS.
All Information will also create the Recovery Disks required to
recover
from a catastrophic failure of the drive where it becomes totally
unusable.
It IS the right choice if I understand you correctly.
It's not clear to me whether you're saying the Help freezes, whether
you're
using the backup Wizards, etc., so I'm guessing a little at how to
respond
here. You might also try Help & Support to see if the info you need
is
located there; it likey is, or on the 'net if you let it use the
'net
for
its searches.
Here's one link on the subject of a Repair Install: There are
others:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
Basically, I find that if I boot from the CD, then look for the
SECOND
"R"
choice, that's the Repair Install. The first one only goes to a
command
prompt for TS'ing.
If for some reason the second R isn't there, then something's
made a
repair impossible that way so I go to that link. Actually only used
it
once.
In the event you have the few bucks it takes to get Norton's Ghost
or
Acronis True Image, they ARE more efficient solutions, but at the
moment
they might be only band aids that could bite you on the ass later on
if
there's a corruption or malware causing problems. Unless you're the
real
geeky type I don't recommend BootItNG; it's good, but kind of
techie.
Personally I'm using Norton's Ghost 10.
HTH
Pop`
- References:
- Re: Help for ntbackup
- From: CAM
- Re: Help for ntbackup
- From: Kerry Brown
- Re: Help for ntbackup
- Prev by Date: REQ: I need help with System Restore
- Next by Date: Re: IP address
- Previous by thread: Re: Help for ntbackup
- Next by thread: LOST HOME PAGE
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
Loading
