System Restore From External Harddrive
Mar 5, 2008I have followed the wizard for system restore but having set the date and pressed next nothing appears to happen. How long should it take? I have tried this in safe mode as well
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PC runs on Windows Xp SP2. It has 2 hard drives where the biggest one is paritioned into three drives: one for Windows installation, second was used for installation files of other programs (I kept Program Files folder there) and the alst one was dedicated for data storage. So the problem occured with the second drive. and as a result i do not have most of my programs running.
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