Re: system restor not working!!!

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

OK, consider an external USB 2.0 or FireWire drive and Acronis
software to create images of your drive.

There are other similar solutions - that's just the one I use.

AllanF <AllanF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:211EAB53-22BC-497A-8CC3-F295937350AA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Hello Bert,

I feel elated!

Here was I fuming at MS. I have been plagued by bugs. Norton
Antivirus 2005 came preinstalled with my MCE. When the
subscription expired after 30 days, I purchased a package - Norton
System(Doesn't)Works Premier and Internet Security 2006. These
programmes were installed to provide safety and protection to my
system. It was then that I came to notice a heap of undesirable
flaws like System Restore failing when it was needed.

Norton Ghost (part of SystemWorks Premier) refuses to write its
recovery images to my DVD drive, and seems to render the drive
useless with "D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function." It's a
long saga, but Norton support have thrown at me, every destructive
"work around" in their arsonal. Every suggestion - from changing
drive letters to purchasing more software and hardware - has
proven to be more insidious than the most virulent of vruses.

Pleeasssee. I am a humble consumer with no Operating Sytem Discs,
just a disc containing an OEM's image of a factory hard drive
created almost two years ago. I have sixty-eight windows updates
to make every time I re-install this image. I also have a dozen or
so Office patches, and countless other applications to install,
not to mention the hours spent resetting my Personal
Preferences... only to repeat the process when another glitch hits
the system.

I want to make an image of my hard-drive in its up-to-date,
functional and happy guise, or at least be able to slipstream the
patches and programmes into my own installation disks. Please.

Norton GoBack was a total disaster. After Norton WinDoctor left
half my applications non-functional. I tried to GoBack to a
restore point 20 minutes earlier. My poor laptop steamed away for
eight hours. Yes! Eight hours, during which time, Norton support
insisted I not interrupt the process. They also informed me that
GoBack is not compatible with my RAID-0 configuration. Well... a
bit late. Uninstalling GoBack, firstly required it to be disabled.
I discovered that this disablement required my computer to steam
away at full capacity, locked in the GoBack interface, for another
eight hours. Yes! ANOTHER EIGHT HOURS!

Currently, I suspect a virus or trojan has simply wandered through
Norton Personal Firewall onto my sytem, because an insistent
pop-up keeps informing me that an unidentified programme wishes to
connect to [My Computer's Name] via the internet. Norton's scans
and logs show that it is totally oblivious to this.

To top this off, Media Center's Live TV "hangs" my entire system
everytime I switch to one particular high-definition channel. I've
had the laptop's monitor pop to black, and I've had a screaming
BEEEEEP. I've had it all. And I've paid more than the dollar
premium to buy this Media Center Laptop.

Now you have provided me with the information that it is Norton
who is responsible for the aggravating failure of Sytem Restore.

I am over the moon! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Regards,

AllanF


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