re: System Resore: Restore InComplete
Monday, April 24, 2006 at 5:24 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by TekNurd
(747 messages posted)
Hey Dude,
Thanks for your reply.
I did actually go ahead with the first reply to my Question and booted into Safe
mode and Restored using system restore.
I never dont that before as i never thought about booting to safe mode, Mostly due
to the fact that i didnt know howto boot safemode. Nor did i ever bother to find
out, It just never clicked to go find out how.i always seemed to get around it.
Tho for you i have some questions on System Restore.
You say "System Restore is notoriously unreliable",..Whys you/and otehr say that
for?
And what other ways are there about restoring a system back?
The resons i use system restore is cos its simple, Quick way of fixing my probs..
Yes i do backup everything using "Data Keeper" (Apart of "Partition Magic", I find
that program also simple and effective for Me) To my D:\
I also use Norton Ghost and make backups.
So System restore helps me the quickests as it doesnt invole going through Ghost
and restoring and it has more restor points to choose.and i dont often use Ghost
to backup weekly or monthly..etc
Where is i use ghost if need be to avoid Reinstalling WinXP....
Mainly use ghost to make a quick backup of allll installed software, games setting
etc..
Anywho, ill stop at that cos ill confuse myself if i go ferther...
Thanks for your reply.
On Monday, April 24, 2006 at 3:42 am, Matthew D. Healy wrote:
>System Restore is notoriously unreliable, but we cannot
>help you unless you post dramatically more details such
>as the totality of error messages you got. Also, if you
>describe the original issue that led you to think you needed
>System Restore perhaps we can suggest an alternative
>means of solving your problem.
>
>You might also look here for some suggestions on ways
>to fix XP:
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>http://www.theeldergeek.com/repairing_windows_xp.htm
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>http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
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>However, you might need to do a clean reinstall,
>but in
>any case you'll need a way to recover your most important
>data first. You should have been doing
>backups regularly, but I suspect you have not been. In
>that case, before you continue further efforts at fixing the
>system your first priority needs to
>be rescuing important data files. Perhaps the simplest
>way to rescue data is with a Linux-based "Live CD". See
>here for more about that subject:
>
>http://www.puppyos.com/
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD
>
>Note that most Linux-based Live CDs will treat an NTFS
>partition as read-only (if you don't know how your hard
>drive is formatted, it's almost certainly one NTFS
>partition), so you'll need one or more USB keydrives as
>the place to put data files you rescue with a live-cd.
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