System state

[Guest]

I have an external hard drive that I use to back up my system. I have
recently been attacked by two trojans (despite all the programmes that I have
which should have prevented them). Ihave now cleared them out and want to
back up my new cleaned system. The Windows back up will not complete as it
says the System state is incomplete. Exact message here:
Error: Could not access portions of directory System State\COM+ Class
Registration Database.
You may not have permission to open the file, or the directory may be
missing or damaged.
Please contact the owner or administrator.


Error: Could not access portions of directory System State\Registry.
You may not have permission to open the file, or the directory may be
missing or damaged.
Please contact the owner or administrator.

Backup completed on 29/09/2007 at 00:24.
Directories: 173
Files: 2651
Bytes: 445,456,998
Time: 2 minutes and 1 second
Critical files that make up System State were not successfuly backed up.
Restoring this backup set will cause system failure.
The operation was ended.
Backup completed on 29/09/2007 at 00:24.
Directories: 173
Files: 2651
Bytes: 445,456,998
Time: 2 minutes and 1 second

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

Windows backup is not a good choice.

A better choice is to use imaging software such as Acronis True Image or the
equivalent.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org