On Saturday 23 Jan 2010, C A Wills wrote:
> Terry Coles wrote:
> > Before I kick it off again can someone confirm that I'm using the right
> > incantation? I used cp -rp source destination.
Thanks to all who offered advice; I was able to backup her data using cp.
I then remembered that Windows has these things called 'Restore Points' so I
rolled the machine back to the version a few days before the outage. I've
just finished a full virus scan with no infected files detected. It took 1
hour and 17 minutes.
So it ends OK it seems. However, if I hadn't had a suitable restore point, or
that hadn't worked, then I'd have had no choice but to reinstall Vista. In
that case, she'd have lost a lot of data without Linux.
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Terry Coles
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