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Old August 17th 05, 02:22 PM
E_Net_Rider
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Thanks for the list.
I have to ask if any are known to be able to make a solid back up to medium
that only requires putting in the medium and letting it run to get back
where one was? Supposedly GHOST will do that, but I haven't yet tried. I had
read in these ms groups where the tendency was to favor bootItNG maybe, but
there was a sale, but now I've missed the rebate date with all the hassle.
So unlikely near as good a bargain.
Definitely humor in "should things get worse".
Can't imagine how at this point, unless the drive up and totally dies losing
what data is available. Which is another subject. Which medium is best?
Norman

"PCR" wrote in message
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| Definitely need to Get Around to It, and make that bullet proof back
up that
| will act as a recovery.

Once you have a functioning system, especially one close to a clean
install, do a full system backup. If you have multiple partitions, I
guess a backup is a bit more complex. It depends upon the ties between
the Registry & the other partitions, as to whether they must be backed
up concurrently. Also, if you've changed the hardware since the backup,
you may need to change it back before a restore.

http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/index.html Backup & partitioning strategy
http://home.wanadoo.nl/geurt/home.html Extended Operating System Loader
http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/ TrueImage
http://www.arjsoftware.com ARJ Archiver
http://www.betterbackup.com/ Retrospect CD Backup
http://www.bootitng.com/ 's BootIt NG, has a variety of backup
capabilities: Copy to HDD, or Image to HDD or to CD. (TBIView, freely
downloadable, can retrieve individual files from an Image.)
Shrink/expand your partitions without data loss. Multi-boot, if you
dare. Free, run from floppy, but pay up as I did if satisfied. To
install & use beyond 30 days, $34.95.
http://www.cdrfaq.org/ CD R/W Backup
http://www.cyberiapc.com/backup.htm MyOwnBackup (MOB) (Free)
http://www.han-soft.com/habt.php Auto Backup (30-day free trial)

http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/cposupport...&p=hpcdwriter2
Simple Backup
http://www.karenware.com/ PtReplicator (Free)
http://www.lifesaverbackup.com/
http://www.mvps.org/links.html Should have good info
http://www.pcmag.com/ Lots & lots of sturdy downloads. There is a $20
yearly charge now.
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic Partition Magic
http://www.ranish.com/part/ Ranish Partition Manager
http://www.rescue-me.net/gold.html
http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/58307.shtml Backups
http://www.stompinc.com/bump/bump_details.phtml?stp Backup MyPC
http://www.thirdstar.net/thirdstar_datarecovery.htm Data recovery
http://www.tomsterdam.com/ BU process, performance, etc.
http://www.v-com.com/product/pc_ind.html Partition Commander
http://www.veritas.com Backup apps
http://www.xxcopy.com/ Detailed Procedure Copy (Free)
http://www.zeleps.com/ Partition re-sizer (Free)

All gathered at this site. Whichever you choose, approach it carefully
and verify all is well. After making a copy, run Scandisk/Defrag on it.
If it's an Image, use it's verify option; perhaps, restore it and do a
Scandisk/Defrag.

http://www.pchelpandconsulting.com/links/windows.html WinDrvExpert
http://www.jermar.com/wdrvbck.htm WinDrvBckup free version

Those two supposedly back up all currently installed drivers, such
that they can be reinstalled. I never tried it but have seen a favorable
report/three-- & one (by Glee) that was so-so (or worse). SO, BETTER
make a full system backup, before wiping Windows.


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"E_Net_Rider" wrote in message
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| I would like to have some idea of what hit me.
| A few mornings back, I find the computer with the vmm32.vxd missing
message.
| Now that I think about it, something must have forced it to reboot as
well.
| To complicate matters, this was an upgraded machine, and the upgrade
disk
| going to SE is the one that only works on 98. That is the machine has
to be
| up and running to install it. And the machine has no floppy and I
never got
| around to making a bootable CD. I manage to get into DOS and get into
the
| windows directory. There are only three folders and most of the files
are
| missing.
|
| Are the other partitions of the 80 GB HDD accessible in DOS? Maybe it
was
| me?
| And now the question of the updated files for the larger HDD come to
mind as
| well. Because I decided to proceed with installing Gold and as soon as
| completed run the SE upgrade CD. But the scandisk reported numerous
errors
| on C. Other partitions OK. It reported a folder named BAER which
aroused my
| curiosity as I have never had any program, etc. associated with that
name on
| my machine, to the best of my knowledge of course.
|
| Any help is greatly appreciated because I really want to avoid this
mess
| again. Current result is that everything will have to be reinstalled.
| Machine is currently running and everything remains on the other
partitions,
| so most of my data is obviously OK. But on the C drive I have a ton of
DIR
| folders and almost 300 filexxxx.chk files. Registry was obviously
lost,
| hence the total reinstall. And after much sifting, I will likely find
most
| of the other data in those DIR's.
|
| After too many failed tape recovery systems, I had decided to dabble
with
| external USB HDD. Thoughts on this are welcome as well and BTW this
isn't
| going to well either. Can't break 15MB/s on USB2. And it came with
GHOST,
| which I have yet installed. I had picked up a copy of Partition Magic
8 at
| the same time. At least one of these I tried to install and it failed,
| crashed. I thought I uninstalled, but later found folders/files,
associated
| with some security company that Norton may use as part of antipiracy.
I got
| rid of what I was aware in that area, but now wonder if there was some
| remnant left that timed out at the 30 day not registered and could
have went
| haywire. What search I've done indicates dibeng.dll or was it
dib32.dll need
| replacing, causation for the vmm32.vxd error, but the files exist in
the
| created DIR's, possibly indicating as well that everything just got
| scrambled.
|
| Definitely need to Get Around to It, and make that bullet proof back
up that
| will act as a recovery.
|
| Norman
|
|