re: System restore wrecked machine?
Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 12:19 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(20200 messages posted)
SR is so unreliable that I just disabled it about 7 years ago, and use one of the
many alternatives that really work. You are better off with registry backuo software
like ERUNT, OR disk imaging software like Symantec Ghost or Acronis True Image.
On Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 3:19 pm, Hyuga wrote:
>Hello
>
>I recently did a system restore as my pc seemd to be acting a bit off, hwoever this
>was a bad mistake
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>>When it rebooted the monitor dispalyed the bios then a little white cursosr then
>no image at all. as I was unable to see anything I had to kill the power.
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>>However Upon rebooting again the pc was messed up. When the desktop apeared I notice
>dimmdiately that no icons appeared in the system tray and also I couldnt open any
>ex file or open task manager (later attempts showed the icons appeared but only
after
>5 minutes)>
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>>I then tried to restore again to an earlier date & then back to the original and
>neither worked. I then tried a repair, that didnt work and finally a full reinstall.
>>
>>As i mainly chose xp for the safety net of the restore Im somewhat annoyed that
>it seems to of wrecked my machine, as such I wanted to ask if it was the restore
>program itself that wa sunstable, or the fact I kileld the power when there was
no
>image. as until I know xp isnt really worth risking the system restore with
>>
>>Thanks to any replies
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