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cds0528
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System Restore
These two guys I know who are IT guys at the international school went to Beijing recently for some sort of training week put on by Microsoft. At the meeting Microsoft gave all of them a disc with Vista RC1 on it. One of them gave it to me... and I really wanna try it

. I know I could've downloaded it, but was never really interested, but now that I don't have to download anything why not try it out. I wanna know if I like it, and RC1 wasn't much different from RC2, and from reading the box it might automatically update itself once I get it running. I read the box it was in and it said you couldn't just roll back the installation, which didn't surprise me much, but I realized that I wasn't sure if we brought our discs that came with the computer, so I couldn't just reinstall xp when the trial version ended in late March. So I'm wondering if making system restore discs will do the trick. I wanna put it on one machine to try it out, so couldn't I just pop a blank cd in and make a system restore disc(s), and then as soon as vista get's annoying/tells me I need to upgrade now, I just pop in those discs, run them, and it puts me right back to where I was now.

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11/6/2006 19:26

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I take it your system restore disks are created through a dell utility right? I tried doing that with the thinkpad I had at IC and it didn't work so you may want to make sure you have your other discs or have them sent just in case. Ideally the system restore discs are suppose to do what you described....maybe others have had better luck than I.

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11/6/2006 20:59

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Actually at looking at the dell restore utility, it doesn't make a disc. I told it to make a system restore point... and it looks like it made it on the hard drive, which I thought was kinda weird. Do you know of any free programs that will save an image of the HD to blast onto it if necessary?

Edit: I'm lookin at a program called drive snapshot http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/down.htm
i might try this out, I heard it on a kfi episode sometime recently... You have to pay for it to use it more than 30 days, but I'm using it once...

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11/6/2006 22:24

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i get nervous around system restore stuff. i've never seen it work perfectly. my mom had a computer with a restore point (hp) and that part of the drive corrupted first. she lost a lot of data (including my dad's dissertation).

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There is some disk imaging software out there that Leo recommends that is supposed to be better than ghost.
I think it costs money though and I can't remember what the name of it is but that is what you really need.

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Yeah I did some digging through the archives and drive snapshot is the one he's been recommending recently, along with another one. I'm still debating on whether I'm gonna try to install it or not... I wanna play with it but...

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