Thank you Emile for replying. I have indeed tried the options you mentionned. The "restore" would not restore at any point at all. The repair re-installing XP from the application CD did not work and nothing else either. A technician I consulted concluded that the failure was due to virus. I still do not know how to keep the ASR up-to-date. Have a nice weekend, Ike
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [A-1-Computer_Tech] How do I keep ASR up-to-date? > > In a message dated 12/1/2005 8:39:06 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I have had to format my HDD and a lot of important stuff was utterly > lost. > > > > > > Hi Ike: > > I'm not sure why you had to format your hard drive. But, you should > know, that if you reformat your hard drive everything will be gone. > There > is no way to recover even if you had diskettes or a Boot Disk. If you > expect > them to save you another time, they won't. I don't know if many people > use ASR as there are easier ways. > > If you were having a problem with your operating system there were a > couple of ways to recover without needing to reformat. One way was > to boot up in safe mode with "Command Prompt" and go into the Restore > folder for a restore point that was ahead of the date of your problem. > The > other way was to re-install XP from the application CD in the repair mode > which does not reformat the drive. > > If you had created a Data partition to save all your data to, > Reformatting > the OS partition would not have hurt your data. > > > Emile > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please > feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post > personal issues directly to the group. > > To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.10/190 - Release Date: > 01/12/2005 > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/67folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
