GoBack 3.1

[Gerry]

My Compaq Notebook running WinXP Home w/ SP2 installed, has a 6 GB HD with
2.1 GB free space. The install of GoBack 3.1 needs 573MB space for it's
normal operation. Install process only allows 172 MB, which does not create
more than 1 day restore-points.
Is there a way to increase the 172 MB during installation of GoBack?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Gerry

 

[xfile]

Hi,

Just for your reference,

The underlying problem, from my point of view, is the total space left is
too small with about 2.1G.

Even if you could manage to do that, you won't have enough space to store
many restore points, plus other files and some swapping file space required
by Windows.

Hope this helps.

 

[Canopus]

My Compaq Notebook running WinXP Home w/ SP2 installed, has a 6 GB HD with
2.1 GB free space. The install of GoBack 3.1 needs 573MB space for it's
normal operation. Install process only allows 172 MB, which does not create
more than 1 day restore-points.
Is there a way to increase the 172 MB during installation of GoBack?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Gerry

I'm a bit puzzled why you are installing Go Back on XP which has an
excellent Restore. I used Go Back on W98 and Restore on XP is far superior,
it's already installed and you can configure the amount of space the restore
files take up.

Rob

 

[Shelly F]

When y'all install, pick custom not typical. It can be changed.
GoBack is useful for data and program restore, XP restore is for
system files only. Large difference.

 

[Guest]

My Compaq Notebook running WinXP Home w/ SP2 installed, has a 6 GB HD with
2.1 GB free space. The install of GoBack 3.1 needs 573MB space for it's
normal operation. Install process only allows 172 MB, which does not create
more than 1 day restore-points.
Is there a way to increase the 172 MB during installation of GoBack?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Gerry

Hello, During the install you can choose "custom" and adjust the size. From
your numbers there is not enough space.
GoBack unlike "System Restore" reverts the whole drive, a single file or can
create a GoBack virtual drive. The amount needed is about 10% of a drive in
order to be effective. System Restore may be of use as the main focus seems
to be system files not the whole drive. Limited but good for its design
according to some users.
If you have concerns beyond system files have you considered some form of
drive image software that will burn to disc, if a cd burner is availiable.
Take Care.
beamish.

 

[Gerry]

Thanks for your reply, "beamish" & Shelly, I did use the custom-install and
requested 575 MB but it was reduced by the program, I assume for lack of HD
space.
Gerry

 

[Gerry]

Thanks for your reply, Rob, the only reason for installing GoBack is for
lack of the WindowsXP install disk, ( notebook was bought used) on a failed
boot GoBack gives a chance to a correction before boot-up.
Gerry

 

[Lee Chapelle]

Thanks for your reply, Rob, the only reason for installing GoBack is for
lack of the WindowsXP install disk, ( notebook was bought used) on a
failed boot GoBack gives a chance to a correction before boot-up.
Gerry

If it were me I would hope to create a restorable image of that drive to
spanned cd-rs or to an external drive as a better safety measure. That way
you can get rid of Goback, which is a resource hog. There is excellent
software to accomplish this, like BootitNG.

Lee

 

[t.cruise]

A 6 GB hard drive is barely enough space for Windows XP, some major applications,
utilities, data files, and multimedia files. I would not suggest installing GoBack and
Windows XP on a 6 GB drive. If your laptop has a USB port, get an external hard drive and
Ghost/Image your system to it:

http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

As others have pointed out, System Restore is only concerned with Windows XP system files,
and GoBack copies all files.

Ghosting/Imaging your hard drive to a USB external hard drive would meet your needs
without wasting precious space on your 6 GB drive.

T.C.
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[Canopus]

When y'all install, pick custom not typical. It can be changed.
GoBack is useful for data and program restore, XP restore is for
system files only. Large difference.

Ah, got you, yes. I did find however that running the version that came
with Norton Systems Works that the restoring Data could be a bit of a pain
as is data had been added it would disappear upon restore to a point before
the data was saved. If I had paid for an upgrade I could have avoided that
though. I worked around it by backing up data to a second disk that I had
no Go Back protection on. I did not have the option to select individual
partitions to protect only individual drives otherwise I would have not
protected the partitions with all my documents, music and photos on.

Rob

 

[Canopus]

Thanks for your reply, Rob, the only reason for installing GoBack is for
lack of the WindowsXP install disk, ( notebook was bought used) on a failed
boot GoBack gives a chance to a correction before boot-up.
Gerry

I must admit that is a very handy feature. Unfortunately, the one time I
"needed" to restore from the boot up screen it failed. Not sure why as I
had been able to restore from boot up screen previously when I had not
needed to and could have restored from the Windows screen, but, there you
go, sod's law.

Rob

 

[Rick]

My Compaq Notebook running WinXP Home w/ SP2 installed, has a 6 GB HD with
2.1 GB free space. The install of GoBack 3.1 needs 573MB space for it's
normal operation. Install process only allows 172 MB, which does not create
more than 1 day restore-points.
Is there a way to increase the 172 MB during installation of GoBack?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Gerry

Why do you want to run GoBack when Win XP has restore points built into it?

Rick

 

[Lee Chapelle]

Why do you want to run GoBack when Win XP has restore points built into
it?

fear

 

[Canopus]

Why do you want to run GoBack when Win XP has restore points built into it?

Rick

With all due respect I've already asked that question and had some very good
replies which I agree with. Peruse the messages.

Rob

 

[t.cruise]

With all due respect I've already asked that question and had some very good
replies which I agree with. Peruse the messages.

Rob

Sometimes it's more productive to type a few words to inform. Rick: System Restore only
concerns itself with creating Restore Points which only relate to the Windows operating
system. GoBack creates rollbacks containing ALL files and settings:

GoBack Key Features:

NEW! SafeTry Mode lets you uninstall new software or undo actions with a single
click.


NEW! Familiar, intuitive search bar makes it easy to find the files or folders
you want to restore.


ENHANCED! You can now drag and drop recovered files to their desired locations,
and rescue multiple files simultaneously.


ENHANCED! History buffer now holds up to 8 GB of data.*


ENHANCED! New user interface lets you quickly recover files, restore an entire
disk drive, or activate SafeTry Mode.

Restores your disk drive to a previous healthy state after a system crash, failed
software installation, user error, virus attack, or other problem.


Allows you to restore just the files or folders you need, or an entire drive.


AutoBack enables you to schedule regular rollbacks.


Virtual Drive displays a previous state of a disk drive.



* Quantity of historical information stored depends on available hard disk space. Maximum
history on FAT32 filesystems is 4GB.


This is in no way an endorsement for GoBack.

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[Rick]

With all due respect I've already asked that question and had some very good
replies which I agree with. Peruse the messages.

Rob

Sometimes it's more productive to type a few words to inform. Rick: System Restore only
concerns itself with creating Restore Points which only relate to the Windows operating
system. GoBack creates rollbacks containing ALL files and settings:

GoBack Key Features:

NEW! SafeTry Mode lets you uninstall new software or undo actions with a single
click.


NEW! Familiar, intuitive search bar makes it easy to find the files or folders
you want to restore.


ENHANCED! You can now drag and drop recovered files to their desired locations,
and rescue multiple files simultaneously.


ENHANCED! History buffer now holds up to 8 GB of data.*


ENHANCED! New user interface lets you quickly recover files, restore an entire
disk drive, or activate SafeTry Mode.

Restores your disk drive to a previous healthy state after a system crash, failed
software installation, user error, virus attack, or other problem.


Allows you to restore just the files or folders you need, or an entire drive.


AutoBack enables you to schedule regular rollbacks.


Virtual Drive displays a previous state of a disk drive.



* Quantity of historical information stored depends on available hard disk space. Maximum
history on FAT32 filesystems is 4GB.


This is in no way an endorsement for GoBack.

T.C.
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Exactly that is why backup software was created
Rick