I also have been using GoBack for many years and I am doing so still. I never had a hard drive failure, but it is my understanding that GoBack creates a seperate partition and stores all changes there. I am not surprised you cannot pull data out of the GoBack partition but to my knowledge it does not affect any other partition. I have disabled GoBack and used Partition Magic to change my partitions around and then re-enabled GoBack. I lost my saved changes in GoBack but it just started over again as if it was a new installation. This leads me to think that GoBack does not mess with other partitions (and I cannot think of a reason why it would need to).
I have used GoBack quite a few times to get back old files, go back in time to before my computer got a nasty virus, and after installing a program that made my whole system go to hell. I like it. Best regards, Mike Young On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 01:02:12 -0700, Lynn Shelton wrote: >I, on the other hand, have been using GoBack on a couple of different W98 >and ME systems for over two years without any problems other than the system >performance impact sometimes caused by the frequent GoBack background data >backup routines. GoBack has several times been for me the only thing that >could fix lost critical data problems caused by system crashes and/or >database corruptions. My computers typically run 24 hours/7 days, GoBack >protects two internal hard drives on one, has been doing so for over two >years with never a problem. > >So I guess my mileage varies significantly from yours. > >Lynn Shelton > > >----------------- >Here is the part to pay attention to. I put Roxio's Go Back software on >this drive. It is supposed to be a better restore facility than >Microsoft's included restore function. After another two days of >restoring, Go Back which puts a proprietary overlay over your partitions >and shows them as non-DOS, scrambled the data on both drives. HDNW, which >is very good at this, couldn't read the partitions had to reformat both >drives and reinstall the operating system (Windows ME) from scratch. > >Do not use Go Back under any circumstances!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > >God loves a good backup, so I had almost everything on CD's or on my >portable, but it is going to take awhile. > >No sympathy cards please, but I had to bitch about my misfortune before >warning about Go Back. > >Joe > >================================================ >TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: >Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l >================================================ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l >================================================ >TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: >http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
