Re: Was this a virus??


"Adam Piggott" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

> Looking at the log entries I'd definitely agree, what a pain!

I've been successful in recovering fragments - got all my Favorites back by
searching for test that wouldn't be anywhere else.

> I would say you could use a drive imaging product such as Symantec's Drive
> Image or Ghost,

Looks like Casper has good reviews........


but there are two reasons why, despite the time and effort,
> I'd advise reinstalling on a new drive:
>
> 1) Imaging from a broken drive can mean that when you restore it to a new
> drive, any filing system errors will come with it. Also if there are any
> bad sectors the imaging program may mark those sectors on the new disk as
> "bad".
>
> 2) Your Windows is using the FAT32 filing system which is far less
> reliable
> or efficient than Windows XP's NTFS filing system.

Agreed - but I have so many programs that have been upgraded so many
times........going back to square one would warrant a vacation.

> I would buy two new drives as well as a disk imaging program and once
> you're back up and running on a fresh install get some backups onto the
> secondary disk. You could go with a (physically) small external USB drive
> for the second disk, and keep it away from the computer when not backing
> up
> to make it extra safe.

I'm looking at an external drive right now....maybe down the road another.

Thanks again.

Bryan


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