Norataon GoBack and Win XP Pro

[oldad]

I used goback 2. with win 95 and 98SE and it was great, there was no
excessive HD activity.

I then upgraded to GoBack 3 Deluxe with Win 98SE.
All was fine until I would restore to an earlier date, then the hd was
constantly active...for days.

The only way to stop the constant activity was to uninstall GB then
reinstall it.and again all was OK until the first restore to an earlier
date.

Norton advised detrmine which prog was writing to the hd and disable
it...HAH!! The prog writing was Norton AntiVirus, so I just uninstalled GB
and have not used it since.

Am now with a Dell XPS Gen4 and Win XP Pro.I know System restore is OK as
a junior ver of GB and is llimited.

Has anyone had any experience, with Norton Go Back ver.4, 2005 , with Win
XP? regarding constant hd activity, or any other comments pro or con?

Thanks in advance
oldad

 

[Guest]

Has anyone had any experience, with Norton Go Back ver.4, 2005 , with Win
XP? regarding constant hd activity, or any other comments pro or con?

Yes, I tried it as an experiment, and the exact same thing happened to me.
I was running Windows XP Pro with NTFS at the time (as I am now). It was
also a major, MAJOR pain to uninstall, a decision that took me only a few
hours (not a few days). The damn thing caused chkdsk to run a full scan at
startup, with the option to check for and repair bad sectors enabled -- which
is a real problem when you have a 250GB hard drive as I do.

Symantec has a well-deserved reputation for making uninstalls messy and
difficult, but this one took the cake. I have clean installed Windows XP and
most of my software in less time than it took me to get GoBack off my system.


Ken

 

[Guest]

Has anyone had any experience, with Norton Go Back ver.4, 2005 , with Win
XP? regarding constant hd activity, or any other comments pro or con?

Yes, I tried it as an experiment, and the exact same thing happened to me.
I was running Windows XP Pro with NTFS at the time (as I am now). It was
also a major, MAJOR pain to uninstall, a decision that took me only a few
hours (not a few days). The damn thing caused chkdsk to run a full scan at
startup, with the option to check for and repair bad sectors enabled -- which
is a real problem when you have a 250GB hard drive as I do.

Symantec has a well-deserved reputation for making uninstalls messy and
difficult, but this one took the cake. I have clean installed Windows XP and
most of my software in less time than it took me to get GoBack off my system.


Ken

 

[beamish]

I used goback 2. with win 95 and 98SE and it was great, there was no
excessive HD activity.

I then upgraded to GoBack 3 Deluxe with Win 98SE.
All was fine until I would restore to an earlier date, then the hd was
constantly active...for days.

The only way to stop the constant activity was to uninstall GB then
reinstall it.and again all was OK until the first restore to an earlier
date.

Norton advised detrmine which prog was writing to the hd and disable
it...HAH!! The prog writing was Norton AntiVirus, so I just uninstalled GB
and have not used it since.

Am now with a Dell XPS Gen4 and Win XP Pro.I know System restore is OK
as a junior ver of GB and is llimited.

Has anyone had any experience, with Norton Go Back ver.4, 2005 , with Win
XP? regarding constant hd activity, or any other comments pro or con?

Thanks in advance
oldad

Hello, Have WindowsXP Home SP2 with all security updates.
Main hard drive 120gb, sgl.partition.
GoBack 3 Deluxe installed.
At this date have not had the problem stated. Use GoBack 3 about 2-3 times a
week. It was stated in the early documentation to close certain programs
before reverting drive. Also disable GoBack using the option tab when
defraging. This is not necessary but you will lose most of your history and
after a defrag have at most two or three revert points that may be
problematic due to the defrag.
So being prudent go off line and disable AV during a revert and after the
reboot disable the AV until GoBack completes recording a new history.
Disable GoBack history during a defrag.
I have not used GoBack 4.
Take Care.
beamish.

 

[oldad]

Thanks y'all,
Don't know if I will or wll not go for GoBack again. I like what it is
supposed to do but hesitate to again get involved with the same old
problems.
Again, Thanks for your input,
Regards,


oldad

 

[Guest]

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[To make a long story short...]

So being prudent go off line and disable AV during a revert and after the
reboot disable the AV until GoBack completes recording a new history.
Disable GoBack history during a defrag.
I have not used GoBack 4.

System Restore is so much easier, and without any of this hassle to boot.

Ken

 

[Lee Chapelle]

I used goback 2. with win 95 and 98SE and it was great, there was no
excessive HD activity.

I then upgraded to GoBack 3 Deluxe with Win 98SE.
All was fine until I would restore to an earlier date, then the hd was
constantly active...for days.

The only way to stop the constant activity was to uninstall GB then
reinstall it.and again all was OK until the first restore to an earlier
date.

Norton advised detrmine which prog was writing to the hd and disable
it...HAH!! The prog writing was Norton AntiVirus, so I just uninstalled GB
and have not used it since.

Am now with a Dell XPS Gen4 and Win XP Pro.I know System restore is OK
as a junior ver of GB and is llimited.

Has anyone had any experience, with Norton Go Back ver.4, 2005 , with Win
XP? regarding constant hd activity, or any other comments pro or con?

Thanks in advance
oldad

Programs that track your every move like Goback are an obscene waste of
computer resources in my view. Get an imaging program like BootitNG and
create a partition image to cd-r, dvd-r, or to a different partition. New
images can be made at regular invervals as your system is updated. If you
need to "go back" the latest image can be restored. This way you don't have
the constant cpu overhead and potential conflicts.

Lee