re: _RESTORE\TEMP replicating files
Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 1:14 pm
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Posted by Cam
(4178 messages posted)
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Cabinet files are compressed files in which all of the operating system files are
stored and are used in the installation process, and are also there in case you need
to replace a file.
See: C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS or search for files and folders with a .CAB extension.
Just how big is the drive you are using and does it have any partitions? Do you have
one physical drive or two?
System Restore is too unreliable and what is more (: actually less :) it does NOT
"restore" your system, it just rolls it back to where you were before.
Maybe what you are really looking for is a program called "Go-Back" which a lot of
people swear by.
A TeraByte image is more like Norton's Ghost.
I keep ALL of my documents in drive Partitions, D: E: & F:
Only the Operating System and Programs are on drive C:
The entire installation is carefully customised & tuned and then a virus & Trojan-free
image is made.
If the operating system on C: fails I just format the 4·0Gb drive using/ A:\>format
c: /Z:16 , to get 8192 byte clusters (a bit faster than using 4096 byte clusters)
and restore ... everything ... from the image in one go. (And wow, does defrag and
scandisk get through those 8192 byte clusters at high speed!!!)
After re-boot the computer is just as good as if it had just been installed, and
better than an OEM Restore, as it is more up-to date ... and ... it has all of your
additional programming. (Once you have a years worth of updates, or less, or add
new programs, you just make a new image.)
This is recommended procedure, because you can get a virus before you can get the
anti-virus definitions which will deal with it. Same with adware and Trojans.
As you cannot get a virus or anything else onto your CDR Master Image your system
is safe.
Mac
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