Remember, you asked for it...
Grandkids were to be over for visit. So, imaged XP to another hard drive
with DI 7.0 Let them have free reign on the internet. As expected they
picked up some stuff that I didn't recognized. NAV found stuff, as did
Trend Micro's antispyware.
More than a week later, rather than deal with surprises that either
program may have overlooked, I just restored the image previously
mentioned including the mbr and disk signature to cover all the bases.
Noticed, after the restoration from image file, I had to activate Trend
Micro antispyware again. It was in basic, trial mode. Bear in mind, I
had
been using Outlook for email as usual. Saving the Outlook setup, mail,
and so forth as a pst file prior to restoring XP again.
So, tried to restore Outlook's setup and mail again. I've done this a few
times before when doing clean installs of XP and Outlook. Always
uneventful
and successful. This particular time, pointed at the pst file for
restoration in Outlook, and the PC just sat there for a minute. Then, it
said something about the application's security settings.
Tried to restore pst file as before. PC just sat there again. Its
normally
showing progress immediately. Left it alone. Pressed the start button,
that part opened, but could go no further.
Then, chkdsk opened on its own. Said there were problems and it proceeded
without prompting. A few directories and files I recognized it said it
fixed. Then started stating problems fixed with security index with file
9.
Two pages of them. (don't know what file 9 is/was)After that, another
line
stating 0 progress. There was still ide led indications, so left it
alone.
One hour later, came back to PC. Was setting at boot selection of system
commander without the GUI. This never happens. Pressed the reboot
switch,
and magically the system commander GUI reappeared. I selected XP to boot.
PC just sat there after short ide activity. Didn't even get to the XP SP2
rolling progress blue bar. Left it alone for 30 minutes no change, no
activity.
So, rebooted with reboot switch. Selected to boot from ME in system
commander. Worked fine. Rebooted, selected to boot from 98SE, worked
fine.
One more time, tried to restore XP to its partition. This time DI 7.0
worked very slowly when I tried to point to the image file location, and
afterwards. Rebooted, deleted the XP partition with system commander's
partitioning program. This time DI 7.0 boot CD worked up to speed, found
the image file easily, and restored normally, including all the check for
file system errors and so forth.
After activating Trend Micro again. Used the repair option from the
Office
CD. Let it do its thing. After reboot, restored the pst file
successfully. All appears okay now.
My questions are what was that Outlook security setting stuff for the
application when trying to restore the pst file?
What did chkdsk do to the filesystem and mbr to trash it?
