Yes, it works this way. However, USB is slowly. I rather recommend a second internal backup disc or a external disc that you could connect through eSata.
It is easy to restore the complete partition(s). The wizard helps to do it. I would take some minutes to study the manual, even if you are not so familiar with such backup tools. Finally depending on your computer speed it takes only a few minutes to fully restore the complete hard drive. I use Acronis for a couple of years already and it takes only about 10 - 15 minutes. Thomas www.PatternExplorer.com From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of LB Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 9:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Curing AmiBroker slowdowns with a system restore This sounds like a great product to have. Not being a computer person I had never even thought of that type of product. I will check into this product and other similar products and get one very soon. It would be great help since I have started using trading software, downloading data, and saving lots of files. Not being a computer person and to make sure I understand this type of product. I can take a product like this and save my complete hard drive on say a usb hard drive and it will automaticly backup the complete hard drive when ever I want it to do it. Then if I have hard drive problems, I can put the copy that is on the usb hard drive on my machine hard drive and it will be just like it was, with all programs and files the same as the last backup? Is the above correct? What would I need to do to put the back up copy on my machine hard drive or a new hard drive? Or is it done basicly automaticly? Thanks for the info, This type of software is something everyone should have. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lester Vanhoff <mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:27 AM Subject: [amibroker] Re: Curing AmiBroker slowdowns with a system restore Microsoft's System Restore is very unreliable. It's just dumb luck that it worked for you. Consider getting a disk imaging application and do the disk image backup every day. One of the best programs is Acronis True Image, I've been using it for years. The way it works, when you get into a problem, it wipes out (formats) the whole disk (or selected partitions), including your operating system, and then restores everything from the backup image. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ "ozzyapeman" <[email protected] <mailto:zoopfree%40hotmail.com> > wrote in news:[email protected] <mailto:gjlt6u%2Bll25%40eGroups.com> : > The only thing that ultimately worked was doing a *Windows System > Restore* to 30 days ago. AB finally worked normally like it used to. > > I guess the veterans on this board might have done the restore instead > of all the crap I tried. But, I am almost ashamed to say, I never even > knew Windows had a system restore function. Or maybe I knew at one > time, but forgot it was even there. In any case, that's the way to > solve any mysterious AB slowdowns.
