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re: System restore wrecked machine? Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 4:14 pm Posted by appleoddity (2280 messages posted) System restore rarely fixes any significant problem on a PC. It seems to be the first thing everyone turns to before diagnosing what the problem really is. I've never used system restore to fix a problem. Others may stand by it, but I have no use for it. If you want a reliable back up method, look at Acronis True Image. It can make reliable images and backups of your hard drive to a recovery partition. Ofcourse, a "recovery partition" is only as safe as the hard drive. If you want to really protect your data you need to have it backed up off-site somewhere. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: System restore wrecked machine? Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 5:08 pm Posted by bob wells (1383 messages posted) Hyuga, Check this link for the best Registry Backup and Optimization tools for Win2000/NT/XP. Both free. Then you can turn off System Restore and reclaim the Space on your HDD. http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/ Just a guess, you picked up some Malware that was affecting your System. System Restore only made things worse because it only restores System files, not Programs, Data etc. Hopefully you Formatted the HDD on Re-install. If not take the time to do Malware Scans to ensure your system is Clean. Install ERUNT and NTREGOPT. Disable System Restore. BW BW __________________________________________________________ There's nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you. 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 >> >>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. >> >>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)> >> >>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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: System restore wrecked machine? Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 12:19 am Posted by Ricer46 (20470 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 >> >>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. >> >>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)> >> >>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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: System restore wrecked machine? Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 1:59 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (11792 messages posted) I've used System Restore successfully many times, but I've also had my share of failures, though never on my own systems. I "manage" my SR space, deleting all existing restore points and creating new ones every month or two. Don't know why but that seems to make it more reliable. I would never depend on it though. I use Acronis True Image and DriveImage XML and keep two levels of backup. Even that is not good enough for irreplaceable files though, those I keep on DVD (pictures, documents, code for my web site, etc.). [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum