Need to Use XP ASR Program for 1st Time, Help

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Needless to say, I thought my little foray into
Installing Creative's most recent drivers for my SB Live
5.1 would be easy; and that I would be the exception to
the countless horror stories I've heard. Well, I'M SUCH
AN IDIOT! So now the only way to 'uninstall my creative
drivers' is to get rid of them completely. So I have to
revert my system to the time before I installed them.
But wait, XP's System Restore never really works for me,
so this will be the 1st time I have EVER used the restore
portion of XP's native Backup program.

Every 4-8 weeks, or when I feel like my system is stable
and where I want it to be at, I do a full system back up
of JUST my Local Disk - C:\ drive AND the System State
files. The backup job is saved as XP ASR recovery file.
(The last file size was like 11 Gig or so.) I back up
this job to my second physical disk. For type of backup,
I selected Copy as the most recent one for 8-8-03; Verify
after Backup; Append to my media (which is just the hard
drive its coping to).

I have done this about 3 times so far since July when I
built my rig. What do I now do to restore my drive to
its backup of 8-8-03?
1. Do I Format/Wipe out my current C:\ drive first?
2. Do I just use the XP Install cd and do the backup from
there?

I hope I didn't screw up the initial backup portion, now
I just need someone to point me in the right direction
(links, MS KB Articles, etc..) on how to successful
restore my backup.

Thanks all.
 
Pop your XP CD in the drive and boot » there will be line at the bottom of the screen press F2(?) to run ASR » press the key » follow the on screen instructions. Everything that was on your sytem drive will be restored to the point it was at when the .bkf was created, if you changed the size of any drive it will be returned (losing the data on that partition) to the size it was when the file was created. You may need to reactivate XP after doing the restore.

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Just my ¢ worth
Jeff
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| Needless to say, I thought my little foray into
| Installing Creative's most recent drivers for my SB Live
| 5.1 would be easy; and that I would be the exception to
| the countless horror stories I've heard. Well, I'M SUCH
| AN IDIOT! So now the only way to 'uninstall my creative
| drivers' is to get rid of them completely. So I have to
| revert my system to the time before I installed them.
| But wait, XP's System Restore never really works for me,
| so this will be the 1st time I have EVER used the restore
| portion of XP's native Backup program.
|
| Every 4-8 weeks, or when I feel like my system is stable
| and where I want it to be at, I do a full system back up
| of JUST my Local Disk - C:\ drive AND the System State
| files. The backup job is saved as XP ASR recovery file.
| (The last file size was like 11 Gig or so.) I back up
| this job to my second physical disk. For type of backup,
| I selected Copy as the most recent one for 8-8-03; Verify
| after Backup; Append to my media (which is just the hard
| drive its coping to).
|
| I have done this about 3 times so far since July when I
| built my rig. What do I now do to restore my drive to
| its backup of 8-8-03?
| 1. Do I Format/Wipe out my current C:\ drive first?
| 2. Do I just use the XP Install cd and do the backup from
| there?
|
| I hope I didn't screw up the initial backup portion, now
| I just need someone to point me in the right direction
| (links, MS KB Articles, etc..) on how to successful
| restore my backup.
|
| Thanks all.
|
 
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