What is your favorite freeware lifesaver?

[ceed]

Hi,

Using a lot of software, both free and paid for, only leaves me with a
very few programs that actually "saves my a**" over and over. These few
programs has on numerous occasions gotten me out of big expensive trouble
and sometimes prevented major data loss and hours of tedious work
reinstalling OS and/or software.

If I have to pick one of these it will have to be "ERDNT" registry backup
software found here:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

This program has over and over again has saved my day and data. It's
incredible simplicity and how it can be set to automatically back up my
registry has been so useful that I would never use a machine for anything
important without it. And it just works, which can not be said about the
built in restore in Windows (which I have disabled btw.).

What's your favorite lifesaver?

 

[Andreas Kaestner]

ceed schrieb/wrote:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

This program has over and over again has saved my day and data. It's
incredible simplicity and how it can be set to automatically back
up my registry has been so useful that I would never use a machine
for anything important without it. And it just works, which can not
be said about the built in restore in Windows (which I have
disabled btw.).

What's your favorite lifesaver?

Savepart from http://www.partition-saving.com/
(or any other image backup).

 

[Cousin Stanley]

| ....
| What's your favorite lifesaver?

Debian GNU/Linux ....

http://www.debian.org

 

[El Gee]

ceed
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Hi,

Using a lot of software, both free and paid for, only leaves me with a
very few programs that actually "saves my a**" over and over. These
few programs has on numerous occasions gotten me out of big expensive
trouble and sometimes prevented major data loss and hours of tedious
work reinstalling OS and/or software.

If I have to pick one of these it will have to be "ERDNT" registry
backup software found here:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

This program has over and over again has saved my day and data. It's
incredible simplicity and how it can be set to automatically back up
my registry has been so useful that I would never use a machine for
anything important without it. And it just works, which can not be
said about the built in restore in Windows (which I have disabled
btw.).

What's your favorite lifesaver?

Restoration on more that one account and DBAN for obvious reasons

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[laurent.herve23]

The fact is, that if the registry is corrupted, as it happens to me
(because the hdd had lost some sectors), one will not be able to
run the windows restoration tool...in this case, a separate
registry backup is justified.

Lh

 

[Bill Turner]

_________________________________________________

Please take some advice from one who has learned the hard way. Never
count on any kind of registry backup to save you butt. Sometimes they
will help, but in some cases like a corrupted Master Boot Record, they
are useless. Likewise with corrupted Windows non-registry files.

The only way to completely protect yourself is with a drive imaging
program such as Norton Ghost, my favorite, or PowerQuest's Drive Image.
Either one will create a file(s) which contains everything on your hard
drive, including the MBR. When you restore the image, you have an exact
copy of your HD as it was. Every single thing is there, intact.

Neither of these is free, nor is there a free drive image program as
far as I know. This is one case where it would be foolish to not use a
program because it costs something. Get one, you won't be sorry.

Bill T.

 

[filthy-mcnasty]

Using at least one appendage, the entity known in this space-time

nor is there a free drive image program as
far as I know

Oh lawd, I might be spamming, but PC Plus is a UK PC Magazine which
comes with Cover CDs/DVDs containing, every issue, commercial programs a
generation or 2 older than current, but fully functional - The only
provision is that you may have to register free online with the
originator, and often they would like to send you regular mails
regarding their current software news and offers, which seems a fair
price (I,ve never felt as if they were intrusive, though Serif comes
close to being tiresome, but not quite)

Their website is http://www.pcplus.co.uk/ . They distribute much other
stuff, Shareware and Freeware, on their discs, and there you can
download many items from current and past issues

It's also a damn fine magazine in every field, and well worth the £6.99,
or less if you subscribe

Ok. It's a teensy spammish, but recent issues have provided most if not
all Acronis items, and True Image has saved my system several times (And
THEY have never mailed me yet)

Nuff said

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[ceed]

_________________________________________________
Please take some advice from one who has learned the hard way. Never
count on any kind of registry backup to save you butt. Sometimes they
will help, but in some cases like a corrupted Master Boot Record, they
are useless. Likewise with corrupted Windows non-registry files.

If your registry is corrupt in a way that prevents you from getting
Windows up and running I agree with you. However, there are situations
where the registry gets messed up after installation of software. Recently
I installed Kodak's EasyShare software package and my built in laptop
mouse stopped working. I uninstalled the Kodak package and my mouse still
didn't work. I reinstalled the mouse driver, no go. Then I restored the
registry from right before I installed the Kodak software and my mouse
worked again. I know I could probably spent a few hours trying to
troubleshoot this, but it was much easier to turn time back a few hours
and reinstate a working version of the registry. I have tons of examples
like this where ERDNT 'saved me". Of course I do back-ups of my drive in
addition to backing up the registry. Still, ERDNT has been a lifesaver for
me, but not the only one!

 

[Wishmaster]

"ceed"
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escreveu na mensagem

What's your favorite lifesaver?

A highly-customized SLAX Linux (Slackware-like) Live-CD that I am working
on...

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[bambam]

Neither of these is free, nor is there a free drive image program as
far as I know. This is one case where it would be foolish to not use a
program because it costs something. Get one, you won't be sorry.

Not only is there a free drive (partition) image program, it has been
mentioned in this very thread.

http://www.partition-saving.com/

I'm with Andreas on this one, great program.

OK, now it's grizzle time.
This group is a freeware group, the real challenge is in finding a freeware
program to do the required task. If you don't know the answer to the
question, watch and learn. Simple really.

 

[El Gee]

_________________________________________________

Please take some advice from one who has learned the hard way. Never
count on any kind of registry backup to save you butt. Sometimes they
will help, but in some cases like a corrupted Master Boot Record, they
are useless. Likewise with corrupted Windows non-registry files.

The only way to completely protect yourself is with a drive imaging
program such as Norton Ghost, my favorite, or PowerQuest's Drive
Image. Either one will create a file(s) which contains everything on
your hard drive, including the MBR. When you restore the image, you
have an exact copy of your HD as it was. Every single thing is there,
intact.

Neither of these is free, nor is there a free drive image program as
far as I know. This is one case where it would be foolish to not use a
program because it costs something. Get one, you won't be sorry.

Bill T.

Bill,

Just an FYI, what you quoted me on was a quote from the OP. Notice the
double/triple indents.

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[REM]

ceed <ceed@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com> wrote:

Using a lot of software, both free and paid for, only leaves me with a
very few programs that actually "saves my a**" over and over. These few
programs has on numerous occasions gotten me out of big expensive trouble
and sometimes prevented major data loss and hours of tedious work
reinstalling OS and/or software.

If I have to pick one of these it will have to be "ERDNT" registry backup
software found here:

This program has over and over again has saved my day and data. It's
incredible simplicity and how it can be set to automatically back up my
registry has been so useful that I would never use a machine for anything
important without it. And it just works, which can not be said about the
built in restore in Windows (which I have disabled btw.).

What's your favorite lifesaver?

I'd have to say that the most valuable tool that I have had the
pleasure to work with is the Ultimate Boot CD 4 Win. It contains ERDNT
(Erunt) btw. and pretty much any and every other freeware tool you
might ever need to salvage valuable data and get back booting quickly!
You can scan for adware, spyware, and virus contamination from the CD
so that the entire boot drive is scanned (no system locked dirs).

Use Lexun DrvImagerXP to image or mirror a clean drive and you'll be
sitting pretty!

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

Tutorial:
http://woundedmoon.org/UBCD/UBCD.html


Three thumbs up!

 

[REM]

I'd have to say that the most valuable tool that I have had the
pleasure to work with is the Ultimate Boot CD 4 Win. It contains ERDNT
(Erunt) btw. and pretty much any and every other freeware tool you
might ever need to salvage valuable data and get back booting quickly!
You can scan for adware, spyware, and virus contamination from the CD
so that the entire boot drive is scanned (no system locked dirs).

Use Lexun DrvImagerXP to image or mirror a clean drive and you'll be
sitting pretty!


Three thumbs up!

I should have stated that the above is for:

"What are the requirments for building UBCD4Win?

1. The files from your Windows Installation CD-Rom.
Supported Windows versions are:

* Windows XP Home Edition (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1
or higher)

* Windows XP Professional (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1
or higher)

* Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
* Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
* Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition

2. PE Builder runs on Windows XP/2003 systems.
3. You must be able to record an ISO image to a CD-Rom or DVD media."


With Win9x-ME I'd have to say xxcopy /clone!

http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm


Either of these methods will save tons of time, rather than doing a
clean reinstall, grabbing critical updates, setting up all software,
etc. That qualifies as a lifesaver to me.

 

[Adam Piggott]

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Hi,

Using a lot of software, both free and paid for, only leaves me with a
very few programs that actually "saves my a**" over and over. These few
programs has on numerous occasions gotten me out of big expensive
trouble and sometimes prevented major data loss and hours of tedious
work reinstalling OS and/or software.

If I have to pick one of these it will have to be "ERDNT" registry
backup software found here:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

This program has over and over again has saved my day and data. It's
incredible simplicity and how it can be set to automatically back up my
registry has been so useful that I would never use a machine for
anything important without it. And it just works, which can not be said
about the built in restore in Windows (which I have disabled btw.).

What's your favorite lifesaver?

<cd-rom>\i386\winn32.exe /cmdcons

Installs the Recovery Console. When booting, select the Recovery Console
and then once logged in:

rename %windir%\system32\config\system system.old
copy %windir%\repair\regback\system %windir%\system32\config
exit

and if that doesn't work, also try it with "software"/"SAM"/"security"

That copies out the raw registry hives from the NTBackup "System state"
backup you run at least once a week into the normal hive folder. Voila!

Registry errors aside, my hide's been saved several times by PowerQuest's
Drive Image 5.0, 2002 and 7.0. Sadly brought out by Symantec a few years
back and has been improved and bloated somewhat. Wouldn't be without it
though - take an image automatically every morning before I use the PC and
I keep 6 days a week + 5 fridays and have plenty of scope for rolling back.

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[Bill Turner]

Ok. It's a teensy spammish, but recent issues have provided most if
not all Acronis items, and True Image has saved my system several
times (And THEY have never mailed me yet)

_________________________________________________

Acronis has one flaw which keeps me from using it. It can only write to
a CD or DVD unless it is formatted in UDF. Ghost can write and read
directly to an unformatted disk.

Bill T.

 

[Bill Turner]

Bill,

Just an FYI, what you quoted me on was a quote from the OP. Notice
the double/triple indents.

_________________________________________________

Sorry. I'll be more careful next time.

Bill T.

 

[Bill Turner]

bambam wrote:

This group is a freeware group, the real challenge is in finding a
freeware program to do the required task. If you don't know the
answer to the question, watch and learn. Simple really.

_________________________________________________

Please don't be so patronizing. I came into this thread late and never
saw the reference to the freeware you mentioned. Likewise a Google
search did not turn it up. "Watch and learn" is good advice but is not
the entire answer. Life is short.

Bill T.

 

[El Gee]

_________________________________________________

Sorry. I'll be more careful next time.

Bill T.

No Worries! I just did not want the trolls to have more fodder



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[Bobbybarker]

Use Lexun DrvImagerXP to image or mirror a clean drive and you'll be
sitting pretty!

can you post a working link the only one I found
http://home.carolina.rr.com/lexunfr...xunFreeware.htm
no longer works. I get a 404.

Thanks
bobby

 

[Susan Bugher]

can you post a working link the only one I found
http://home.carolina.rr.com/lexunfr...xunFreeware.htm
no longer works. I get a 404.

Program: DrvImagerXP
Author: Lexun
W: LFW
Ware: v 2.2
http://www.woundedmoon.org/

Info / Screenshot:
http://woundedmoon.org/win32/drvimagerxpsetup_2.2.html

DrvImagerXP v2.2 656,504 bytes
http://woundedmoon.org/win32/drvimagerxpsetup_2.2.exe

Susan
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