Posted by Dave001 on January 7, 2005, at 14:19:18
In reply to Re: serious computer troubles » Larry Hoover, posted by alesta on January 6, 2005, at 10:22:28
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> > I hope you're running Windows XP. You need to boot in safe mode. When you power up, just keep tapping the F8 key. You'll get a series of weird messages, but be patient. You'll get to a screen that allows you to boot under an earlier version of your operating system's registry ('start Windows under earlier restore point', or something like that).
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> hi lar:)
> thank you very much for your help! will the above work for windows 98 instead of xp? i guess i'll check and see when i get home. thanks for all the info dear! you rock!
>Nope. Micro$oft included "System Restore" with Windows ME and XP, but not 98 or earlier. Personally, I think the "feature" is crap; it doesn't restore all of the registry hives or files, and thus doesn't restore your computer to an exact point in time. It also wastes a lot of disk space and slows the computer down. Arguably, the best method of backup and recovery involves the use of drive imaging software that does sector based backups with support for incrementals. Imaging software allows you to do bare metal your system to an exact point in time. My backup software takes incremental snapshots of sector changes every hour and saves them to a separate computer on the network. Even if both of my hard disks were physically erased, I can quickly restore everything to exactly the way it was, losing at most one hour of work.
Dave
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