Backup question

[CinciDave]

I am running XP Home (OEM) on a Dell 9150 and have discovered that my virus
protection pgm, McAfee Enterprise, has been compromised ( my own doing when I
attempted to upgrade from 8 to 8.5) and I cannot remove the old version
(required) before installing the upgrade. McAfee provided a challenging
routine which necessitates operating on the registry. I have backed up the
system state files (includes the registry) with the MS backup routine on an
external drive and am ready to perform the surgery. If I screw up this
process I plan to reformat and clean install with XP PRO. Note that I have a
nasty malware Backdoor:Win32/zonebac.gen!B Which must be removed as well
(another painful process) if I stay with XP Home. This needs to be done after
reinstalling the McAfee upgrade.

My question is, will I be able to restore my important files from this old
backup to the newly installed XP PRO operating system?

 

[sgopus]

Get a better AV than mcafee, like Kaspersky

 

[CinciDave]

I may do this but for now can I use my back up to restore to the new system?

 

[Malke]

I may do this but for now can I use my back up to restore to the new system?

Better idea - back up just the data files to a usb thumb drive or burn
to CD-R. Then clean up your computer by going through malware scanning
or just do a clean install - your choice.

Make sure you scan the data you backed up with a current version
antivirus program using updated definitions before you copy it back onto
your clean/cleaned up system.


Malke

 

[Poprivet`]

I am running XP Home (OEM) on a Dell 9150 and have
discovered that my
virus protection pgm, McAfee Enterprise, has been
compromised ( my
own doing when I attempted to upgrade from 8 to 8.5)
and I cannot
remove the old version (required) before installing
the upgrade.
McAfee provided a challenging routine which
necessitates operating on
the registry. I have backed up the system state files
(includes the
registry) with the MS backup routine on an external
drive and am
ready to perform the surgery. If I screw up this
process I plan to
reformat and clean install with XP PRO. Note that I
have a nasty
malware Backdoor:Win32/zonebac.gen!B Which must be
removed as well
(another painful process) if I stay with XP Home.
This needs to be
done after reinstalling the McAfee upgrade.

My question is, will I be able to restore my
important files from
this old backup to the newly installed XP PRO
operating system?

Based on what I understand of what you wrote, no. XP
and Vista can not read each other's files for Restore
applications, IF that's what you're asking.
Also, the System State, FWIW and I think you
realize, does nothing for backing up your "important
data", right?

You need whatever app created a backup to do a Restore
of the backup.
If I were you, I think I'd create a new backup,
assuming you still can, in the OS you now have, and
then do a clean install of that OS. That will remove
the virus.
Be VERY careful that you do NOT recopy the virus
BACK to your machine when you do a RESTORE! That
expecially means that System State pretty surely
contains the virus.
Then manually reinstall everything from the OS on
and stop periodically to check that the virus doesn't
exist in any of the files you plan to Restore. Do
intensive scans on the data before you restore it, and
restore NOTHING you do not need or recognize.

HTH

Pop`

 

[Plato]

I am running XP Home (OEM) on a Dell 9150 and have discovered that my virus
protection pgm, McAfee Enterprise, has been compromised ( my own doing when I

Many new viruses immediately disable the most popular anti-virus apps.
Best bet in the future is NOT to download a virus in the first place.
Second step is not to install the virus. It's all up to you.

 

[CinciDave]

My question is: Can an XP Home back up of important files be installed on a
clean installed XP PRO OS?

 

[Bob I]

The NTbackup program is the same in both versions.