Walter, I was using True Image 8 to do what you do. When I installed SP3 it first made a "Restore" point. When things went to h_ll I performed my first ever restore. NEVER AGAIN! The restore left both my C: AND D: drives unusable. They get to the point of displaying a very small Windows XP logo and freeze. Nothing I did made any difference.
I am now in the proccess of trying to reinstall everything. but while I was in contact with Microsoft yesterday they did the remote desktop thingnd it seems to have changed one important thing...Now, when I boot with only ONE HARD DRIVE installed (I used the repair 'fixboot' command to now allow me to DO that!) it calls that drive D:!!!! My ATI All-In-Wonder software MUST be loaded on C: so I am screwed until I can get microsoft to FIX their screwup. Oh well,,, Eric Thompson S/V Procrastinator South San Francisco [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Knopf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] help with computer recovery (lengthy) >I am in general very frugal also, being >semi(?)retired but there are some > things > a file backup will not do, so I bit the bullet > and bought TrueImage 11.0. > I spent nameless hours trying to cobble my > system back together after > a disk failure, a real pain if you have a lot of > programs on your system. > This allows you to restoring the system to > EXACTLY the way it was > when you made the backup, I hate to have to > re-install programs and > download all the updates. > I make image backups of all my hard drives to an > external drive, which I > carry > with me in my back pack thru all airports, you > should see the looks I get. > I will list some of the things I have used > TrueImage for: > 1. Mechanical disk failure (bad read head), no > way to recover data. > Got a new drive, inserted my Acronis boot disk > and had my original > system up in less than half an hour. > 2. Needed to upgrade my server system disk (20 > GB running server 2k, ouch!) > Pulled the system disk, put it into my > workstation and made an image > copy. > (You need a much more expensive version of > Acronis to run on a server) > Restored the image back onto a 150GB drive, > stuck it back into the server > and there were nutt'n but smiles... > 3. I spend the better part of the year away from > my home office (sailing in > Illinois > is a short season affair), so I take my > external drive with me, plug it > into my laptop > and I can have several virtual drives that > look exactly like my server > and workstation > at home on my puny laptop. Used to make CD's > with all the pertinent files > on it, but > then couldn't remember on which disk those > files where and if I had > copied them all.. > (getting a little absentminded), but I knew > exactly in which directory on > my home system > they were, so I had no problem locating them. > > I love that external drive running on USB almost > as fast as my internal > drive (80GB, not much left), > next I'll get one with a FireWire interface, > it's supposed to be faster. > Since I spend more time working > on the computer than working on the boat I've > had to learn the hard way over > the last eight years > how to make things work in a salty, tropical > climate, got two dead computers > to prove it. > Anyone interested in scraping and painting? > Guess not.... > > Walter > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ken James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:06 PM > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] help with computer > recovery > > >>I use a program called Restore2000 to get files >>off disks that have been >> deleted or that are on disks that have lost >> formatting or have been >> damaged, files or disk. It works better than >> anything else I have tried, >> and it is cheap! >> >> One thing though, it takes a LONG TIME many >> hours or even several days >> to retrieve all the info on a big disk(you can >> choose to do so or choose >> just the files you want) , so be prepared and >> be patient. >> >> You could use Restore2000 to retrieve and back >> up your data then use the >> procedure mentioned in the previous email on >> the subject to restore your >> email files. >> >> You can set Windows to auto back up such files >> also, so if this happened >> again it would be far less of a hassle. -Ken >> > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The archives are at > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
