Hi Sarah No, you've misunderstood, sorry. RollBack does not work like that! If you have a case whereby Windows won't boot, what you do is boot from the same drive, but evoke the RollBack menu by pressing the Home button. Then you can roll the system back.
But I will say it again. RollBack RX is *NOT* a conventional backup utility. It is a snapshot creator which keeps a sector-by-sector image record. It does *NOT* create an entire image of your hard drive, and that is the important difference which a lot of people don't quite understand. A sector-by-sector record is *NOT* the same as an entire image. So, if you have a 100GB hard drive and it contains 90GB of data, your RollBack image is *NOT* going to be 90GB in total. Am I making this any more clear? Gordon On 14 Aug 2012, at 04:51, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: Actually I read the whole intire thread and I asumed you could boot off of a usb drive in all operating systems. This method is counter intuative as if something happens to your internal or you drop your computer down the stairs you are toast. A block by block back up is good but if you only have a 120 gig hard drive in said laptop or desk top that is not much space to work with as your first image might be 100 gigs in theory depending on your OS config. I"m used to running IS's off of external drives so naturally asumed that that's the way role back worked. It seems like a good peace fo kit to have around though. On Aug 13, 2012, at 2:52, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Sarah > > No, RollBack does not work that way at all. You obviously haven't been > reading the thread because this was explained earlier. > > Gordon > > > On 13 Aug 2012, at 04:12, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm surprised though that you can't lejt's say have a 3tb drive and have role > back back up to that instead thereby freeying up drive space. Can you then > book in to that drive in windows by holding down that hime key and choose > the snap shot to be restored to yoru internal drive? If so then I am wrong. > > Tc and be blessed. > > On Aug 12, 2012, at 7:30, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That is totally correct. It is important to understand the differences >> between a Backup tool in the traditional sense, and a shadow backup tool, >> which RollBack is. Rollback RX gives you as little or as much control over >> your system, as little or as much backup flexibility as you dictate. I >> still maintain it's worth every bit of the price it costs for a license. >> >> Gordon >> >> On 12 Aug 2012, at 11:02, Øyvind Lode - Forums <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> RollBack is not a traditional backup tool. >> It takes a snapshot of your current setup (bit-level) which you can use to >> restore your system back to it's state prior to a malware, virus infection >> etc. >> Or a installation of some software messing up your system you can then >> rollback to the latest snapshot and all traces of that software and/or >> malware etc will be gone. >> Quite elegant and sweet and I guess I will spend the $69 (US) for a single >> user license. >> I use other tools for traditional backup of important data. >> >> >> ======================================= >> >> The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free >> >> To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web >> pages located at >> http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at >> either of the following websites: >> >> http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html >> >> Or: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> >> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. 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