recover

[Bill Cunningham]

I don't think I have system recover with my system. I always turn off
restore I hate it. Call me paranoid but it scares me. When I went to
c:\windows\i386 and ran winnt32.exe/cmdcons it took me to a screen where I
downloaded system recover from MS's site. It asks for recovery disks. My
computer manufacturer gave me 6 restore disks that loads win media edition
and a bunch of other applications I just take out. The computer said I can
on startup with the xp cd install system recover as an option but I don't
have that option the manufacturer's software installs everything. I don't
have an official MS xp disk.

Bill

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I don't think I have system recover with my system. I always turn off
restore I hate it. Call me paranoid but it scares me.

You're a moron.

People like you scare ME.

 

[Guest]

I don't see a question here?
and you contradict yourself, you don't want system recovery, yet you talk
about installing the recovery console, what's the deal???

The recovery option available on the install disk is only the recovery
console, not system recovery.
The recovery disk the console is asking for are the disks generated by the
emergeny recovery process, this is not a system recovery disk per se, it
contains basic settings like registry and etc, not your entire system, it
would be better for you to get a third party software for backup ie icronis
true image or the like.

Also the provided restore cd's restore your system to as new status, no
saved data is restored but wiped out. so again make a backup offsite.
available are USB drives large capacity to backup your entire system, just
disconnect when not in use, and make periodic incremental backups

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Bill Cunningham wrote:

I always turn
off restore I hate it. Call me paranoid but it scares me.

I won't call you paranoid, but I'll call you foolish for doing that.

System Restore is not a cure for all problems, and is certainly not a
substitute for a backup. But it is a very useful tool, one that has gotten
me and many others out of trouble many times.

It's a very easy quick way to revert your operating system to the condition
it was in a day or a few days ago, and that's all it's meant for. Turning
off a valuable safeguard lik t his makes no sense at all.

 

[John John]

So what is your question?

John

 

[Rock]

I don't think I have system recover with my system. I always turn off
restore I hate it. Call me paranoid but it scares me. When I went to
c:\windows\i386 and ran winnt32.exe/cmdcons it took me to a screen where I
downloaded system recover from MS's site. It asks for recovery disks. My
computer manufacturer gave me 6 restore disks that loads win media edition
and a bunch of other applications I just take out. The computer said I can
on startup with the xp cd install system recover as an option but I don't
have that option the manufacturer's software installs everything. I don't
have an official MS xp disk.

You might want to rewrite this post. There doesn't seem to be any question
in it, nor does it make much sense as written.