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| Thread ID: 138494 | 2014-12-08 20:35:00 | Backup and Restore issue | DeSade (984) | Press F1 |
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| 1389768 | 2014-12-09 21:12:00 | The image will be from the point I give back the laptop. So 20GB on a 32B stick at most. I don't care what he loads after that this is a recovery option to get him easily back to what I left him with. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1389769 | 2014-12-10 07:30:00 | Try Shadow Protect Desktop Edition, pretty sure there is a free trial. +1, you cannot go wrong with SP! |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 1389770 | 2014-12-10 07:50:00 | I'd also recommend Shadow Protect. Should stop most things a little gremlin can get upto :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1389771 | 2014-12-10 08:24:00 | Hope Shadow Protect have fixed the problem they have had for years -- when you make a image if it has more than one partition (like W7 onwards) it couldn't put them all back in one go. You had to manually create each partition and put each partitions back one at a time. I contacted them earlier this year and asked how to put them all back at once - all I got was a link to a FAQ saying its not possible at the moment. Then after that I found a post that says the same: ( dated March this year) Have you tried manually creating the partitions you intend to restore in to? When restoring volumes, restore them one at a time, remember to only mark the OS volume as active, and only copy over the MBR from the image to that volume. Once the OS volume completes it's restore, don't restart! restore the subsequent volumes as well. Once all of the volumes are restored now you can restart. DAMN useless & a SLOW way of doing it. Most of those recovery programs mentioned in this thread require you to boot from a CD, the original requirement was boot from a USB drive with the image on the same drive -- Tried it with Active@ and proved it worked. ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1389772 | 2014-12-10 10:55:00 | www.faronics.com | nmercer (3899) | ||
| 1389773 | 2014-12-10 19:50:00 | before we get any more suggestions of $100++ software, better tell us just what your budget is. Trialware that expires after a month or so really isnt a good suggestion :-) |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1389774 | 2014-12-10 20:10:00 | I am willing to buy the software $100+ if it meets my requirements. I have more than one use for it so the purchase is justified. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1389775 | 2014-12-10 21:23:00 | Deep Freeze works Really well. It reverts the PC after each reboot, great for schools & libraries etc. I have only used the older versions, but may be a way to set it up for what you want , ie revert only when needed . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1389776 | 2014-12-10 22:01:00 | Deep Freeze works Really well. It reverts the PC after each reboot, great for schools & libraries etc. I have only used the older versions, but may be a way to set it up for what you want , ie revert only when needed . N, I can't limited the system like that. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1389777 | 2014-12-11 01:43:00 | What ever program you decide to use you want to make sure its fully functional before purchasing. The problem with ShadowProtect is you cant try it fully without purchasing it, as the full recovery that you want isn't available in the trial. I thought I'd give it another try to see if they had the more than one partition problem solved yet, BUT after reading from their site: Note: The trial version is a free 30-day license. Restoration functionality is limited to recovering files and folders.The StorageCraft® Recovery Environment. and StorageCraft Hardware Independent Restore™ technology are not included.The option to do a full restore is not there on the trial. The previous one I did with Active@ was my paid version. I've just downloaded the 21 day Trial, installed it on a workshop PC, Used the FAT32 format then used the option and burnt the boot files to a 32GB USB Drive, then booted from that USB Drive, and created a image onto the same USB drive. Removed the HDD, threw in a old drive, booted from the USB drive, and put the image back- worked perfectly. Note: the only thing I had to do that was different to before was use the force dismount on the original HDD. What ever you try its best as its been mentioned to try a restore on another Drive first. So basically Active@ will allow you to try it FULLY before purchasing, so if it does'nt work for you or do what you want, nothing is lost, where as Shadowprotect wont. The question to be asked, is if the people who say ShadowProtect Will work, are they prepared to give you some money back ($99.95 US for the Desktop Edition) if it doesn't without fully trying it ? ( I know the answer to that :p) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
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