Backing Up Whole System With All Applications And Softwares?
Sep 14, 2005
I want a means of backing up my whole system, applications, data, and everything including the operating system to a separate hard drive. If my hard disk dies I don't want to have to reload the operating system and all its updates, reload all my software and their updates, recreate users This literally takes days.I want to be able to put in a new hard drive and completely recreate my entire system from my backup drive and be back up and running in a couple hours.
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Jul 9, 2005
A fresh installation of windows xp. When I am having installed XP, then it comes to installing various software, is it necessary to allways do a reboot after each installatoin, even if the software does not request it. Most software does not seem to request it, is there any benefit in rebooting, or conversely can any damage possibly be done by not rebooting and then reinstalling another software without rebooting for the first one that doesn't specifically ask for it. My next question is this. If I use an image to restore my operating system, is this in any way of a lesser quality than if I do a manual installation using the installation xp disc.
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Oct 3, 2005
I am sole installer and user of my XP Home SP2 machine. I have Administrator rights; (I checked to make sure in Safe Mode as the actual default Admin).In trying to backup my System State, it "fails" 75% into it saying I don't have permission on certain sensitive files and that restore will fail.
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Aug 10, 2009
Well like alot of people I made the mistake of selecting safeboot in the boot.ini file in the msconfig file after my comp got a virus and would not boot into safemode. The hard drive is in two partitions: the C drive used to contain windows, and the D drive which has the data i am trying to save. I don't have a Windows XP disc because it was already on the comp when i bought it. I have attempted to restore the windows files with Bart PE bootup image disc but it wiped out Windows XP completely from the C drive in the process, but the Data drive is still showing up with all its files intact.
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Jan 20, 2008
We have 3 puters here, all hooked up. One is a Compaq and the other two are Dell's. The Compaq is obvious and I can't mess that up, but I did on the other two.Last year, I decided I wanted a fresh puter, so I backed up all of my stuff onto the 2nd Dell [it's used just for the children and was not allowed online] and reformatted it. Now I want to put my stuff back onto my Compaq and reformat the children's.I wanted to check which Windows CD went with what Dell, so I went to look at the OEM numbers on each puter. Well, darn it, but they're both the same!! How do I figure out which Windows CD is supposed to go with which puter???? Each one is assigned one, right?One CD is like a purple/burgundy and says, "Reinstallation CD Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Including Service Pack 1" [the booklet that came with it says, "Version 2002"]. and the other CD is like a mauve/purple [close to the colour of this dude --> ] and says, "Reinstallation CD Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Including Service Pack 2" [the booklet that came with it says, "Version 2002"]. Not exactly sure how old the Dell's are, but the one the children use was hubby's - he gave it to me when he bought a new one for himself and then I gave it to them when he bought me the Compaq. He's had his new one for about 4 years.While looking through the CD's [I keep them all together in a box], I found a square paper with a pic of a blue CD on it and it says, "Your new computer does not require an operating system CD or drivers CD's. Instead, if you ever need to reinstall your software, use one of the following methods." and suggests either System Restore or PC Restore. What puter does THAT come with?Now, the childrens' puter has never had the Windows updates as it's not online, no Service Pack 2 or anything like that, so no Genuine Advantage should be on it, but it is? Their puter is only for games that we buy them: disks, CD's, and the online games that they like to play are played on either my or hubby's puters.
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Sep 26, 2007
I got a very unusual problem. Whenever I try install any software (archived format), i get error messages like "installation source is corrupt", "cannot extract files from package", "cannot install software. if you are installing from CD please check whether the CD is in the CD-ROM or not, or if you are installing from a network, check your network connection" and errors similar to this.Of course, i re-downloaded installation files from DIFFERENT sources each time, but again this error does not goes away.Due to this I cannot install Java, anti-virus and my favorite media-player too.
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Apr 22, 2010
Are there useful optimization software?I have used several optimization software,like SpeedUpMyPC,tweak7,tune up But I found they didn't work as well as some people say.Are there any other useful optimization software?Would you please recommend some good optimization software to me?
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Mar 26, 2006
I recieved my new PC today. Something obviously went wrong when I was installing drivers and necessary software. It was either during ZoneAlarm or ATI's display drivers (from the CD, until I could download the latest off the site). After that things have been a bit unstable. I managed to uninstall ZoneAlarm. I turned off auto-rebooting and tried launching GAIM as it was affected by the ... mess. gaim.dll wouldn't launch, and I got the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL blue screen. I scanned with NOD32 and I didn't find any viruses, but everything inside driver.cab is, well, see for yourself.
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Mar 31, 2007
How to build a Wondows XP Boot with preinstalled softwares usin nlite.if i install xp (bootable) then it should alsoinstall winamp and winzip etc along with the os how to do this..
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Mar 15, 2010
Accidentally hit system recovery f10: all applications gone?
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Nov 18, 2005
i try to install a program and i keep getting the message. "C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable fo rrunning MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application." What can i do to install this program?
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Aug 4, 2005
the CPU would peg at 100% on a program launch and drag the machine to ahalt. Once the program was up and running, everything was back tonormal. Keep in mind that this is NOT just a "slow computer" - it wasbrand-new behavior that started for no reason I could discern (I didn'tmake any hardware or software changes before the problem cropped up).I've run a couple of antivirus programs and adware cleaners and they've found nothing. I've used utilities from sysinternals.com to look at what's going on and I can't see anything strange.
I'm having problems simply launching applications. If I attempt to launch an application, it will show up in Task Manager (but not in the UI), but will almost always stop loading at ~5MB in memory (usually from about 4.7 to 5.7MB). Every once in a while, the program will start without a hitch, but it's rare. The one somewhat (but not entirely) consistent thing I've been able to find is that if I kill another program, I can then start the program I was trying to start (again, I have 1GB of RAM in this machine and plenty free, so it's not a memory problem).
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Jan 16, 2008
I am having a problem where everything seems to take up way more CPU usage than it used to. There is no application stealing processing power. Rather, when I start an application that would normally use a bit of CPU, it now spikes the CPU.In particular, 5 year old game called Neverwinter Nights is now unplayable and spikes up to 55% CPU usage on both cores even though it should only hit one core. The Earthsim program also does the same. So do other applications.
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Aug 9, 2009
I have read that its best to back-up your file before installing sp3 could anyone tellme how I can do this Safely and Correctly so that I don't lose any of the information I have on my Computers Hard drive.
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Mar 25, 2008
My OS is Win XP Home. My question is that I noticed on most dvds it will say "data" and aside from pics and videos, can I use a dvd disc to backup my PC? And if so, would +R or -R ake a difference? I'll be using the windows backup wizard that's in my notebook.
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Feb 25, 2010
after messing around with several backup programs, Paragon has proved to be the most practical HOWEVER when I select to backup my C partition it wants to back up over 8 GIGS of data. Converting gig to meg and seeing as CD's can hold only 700mb that's about fifteen CD's that I'm going to have to use! I don't even think that there's a Flash drive large enough to back up what these recovery programs want to back up.I've upgraded and patched .net up to 3.5 (1.1 is broken for some reason). I've upgraded and patched XP Home to service pack 2 and have upgraded and patched IE to release 7.I have various utitlity and virus scanner programs on my system but doing an file observation through Advanced System Care, I have nowhere near 9 gigs of data that I need to back up.So the only thing I can think is that Paragon is trying to back all the formated trash data from the umpteen system formats that I've done.I've used several wipers and asked Paragon to exclude auxilary files but still insists that I have close to 9 gigs of data to back up?
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Dec 6, 2005
I have 2 pc's i is xp home the other xp pro I made a backup of my registry on my xp home pc did it no bother using acronis true image I tried to do the same on my xp pro pc and when I typed regedit in the run box it went straight to a dos box with just rubbish on it I could make no sense of it. The registry editor and the export registry pages never came up.
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Sep 18, 2006
I bought a full copy of Windows XP with SP2 included to install on my Intel Mac. Since it was a fairly expensive piece of software, I wish to protect this investment by creating a backup copy of the installation CD, in case anything should occur that damages the one that I bought. How can I do this so that the backup CD will install properly? I know very little about images and creating bootable discs, so any guidance would be very much appreciated. One problem that I know I wish to avoid: a fellow that I asked at a computer store said that he had tried but failed, finding that the new copy would not accept the serial number once he had installed it.
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Dec 24, 2004
I am seriously considering replacing my ME with XP and I was wondering if someone could kind of walk me through the procedure. Do I need to back up everything or just some things. How do you format? Also, if I decide to keep the ME, how do I go about reformatting it?
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Nov 27, 2005
I need to backup my pre-configured computer (drivers/XP) its a dell laptop, and i got no drivers -CD's- with it. What is the best way to make a duplicate copy of the harddrive (3 gugs)as I'm going to get a nre Hard drive soon?
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Dec 17, 2005
I really hope someone out there will help me to solve my problem.Im using outlook express to check my mail.now i want to reinstall my xp from scrap.The problem now is I dont want to lose my message.I just want to back up my message only,not the whole hard drive.
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Jun 5, 2008
1.Could someone give me a suggestion/tips about doing backup?
a.The good place for backup?
b.How often I should do it?
c.The good method for backup?
2.I also have a HD that I made two partition on it, one partition is NTFS and the other is FAT32. How I should backup that HD?
3.What is the filetype system of a CD/DVD?
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Mar 30, 2007
I got me a 500 gig external disk, that does not come with much s/w. What are some good s/w out there that allow me to manage my backups. I have XP Home.
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Dec 15, 2006
Microsoft Guided Help works well for backing up my registry and it is certainly interesting to watch it run.
What type of program is it that runs on-line?
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Sep 20, 2008
I was trying to backup the registry of my Windows XP Home edition desktop, and I was going to use the program ERDNT. Mistakenly, I copied the folder over from my Vista laptop, forgetting that it carried backups of my Vista registry. So I launched the program, and mistakenly, restored my Vista registry backup onto my XP computer. I panicked, and tried doing a system restore right after. Now, everytime the computer starts up I get an error saying that msisadrv.sys is missing or corrupt. What can I do?
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Nov 17, 2003
Going crazy trying to back up my Quicken 2004 files to CD-RW. The instructions for doing this from Intuit do not work. I have the latest patch which is release3. It claims that the built in CD burner program in XP will open if I click on file then backup. Nothing happens. Where is the built in Cd burner program? Dell was no help as was Quicken.
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Jul 15, 2005
I have tried installing the service pack 2 for windows XP from both the internet and from a CD that Microsoft sent me. My problem is when it gets to the point where it says "backing up registry" it acts like it timed out. It won't do anything more and I have to do an alt+ct+del to turn it off.
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Dec 4, 2006
Are pricey add-ons like Win DVD7 Platinum or Power DVD 7 significantlty better than the HP DVD Player or Media Center. This is a new HP Media Center PC with DVI and Digital Audio. The display is a 30" hi-def monitor/TV combo and the audio runs through a 1000 watt Pioneer Home Theatre.
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Apr 17, 2006
Recently, all of my applications which need some kind of Internet survice have just altogether stopped working. The router I have works perfectly fine and has been since I got it in November. It's just that every time I click on Mozilla, AIM, AIM Triton, or even Internet Expolorer nothing happens. I have tried right clicking too. Everything else on the computer works EXCEPT for those applications. I checked and the router is secured and working.
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May 23, 2007
I have a dell Inspiron 6000. I cannot get audio or video to work on sites that use pop-ups for them. For example, I cannot use most online radio streams or access video clips on cnn's website. This occurs with both Firefox and IE. The pop ups do appear but there is no video/audio.
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Feb 2, 2006
To find a windows explorer error message. When I click close on the error, the same error pops back up.
I finally got the error message to stop on startup and the computer worked fine but now when I access any windows based programs, windows explorer, my computer, control panel, IE 7, my computer puts the error message back up.
When i click "close" windows explorer does not go away, the error message just does but it still prohibits my access to these programs (which really really annoys me).
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