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mattdring
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Hi,
XP home ed OS SP2.
"your comp crashed or was shut down while go back was in the middle of recovery on disk#1. Unless there is a serious problem and recovery continues to fail, you should allow goback to continue the recovery process, otherwise data loss may occur" Do you wish to continue recovery? Y[defaulted]/N.
Tried to continue but no joy. It seems to freeze then after ages eventually says it must reboot. Then comes back to above message. I think the only option is to not continue recovery. The other option after this is to disable goback or it can be forcibly removed by the computer. It says all historical data would be lost. I presume this means the go back back ups. I don't want to lose all data as not backed up for while. Still transferring files to new computer via USB stick.
Also had message about possible overclocking and other poss reasons when selected to not continue recovery.
Thanks for all help!
System restore should be a possibility, although my experience of it is it may not go back to the date you want. Everything was saved, I believe, before crash. I have often forcibly turned PC off as shutdow.bat sometimes has hung after clicking this shortcut file I set up. Unable to defrag recently as says not enough space to do it.
Matt
Edited by mattdring (Tue Aug 21 2007 12:47 AM)
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greysts
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So you've run out of space on the hard disk, you've forced a shutdown at various times and you've overclocked the PC! It's hardly surprising you've got a few problems. I presume you were using Norton GoBack to try and put things right. I would guess that if you haven't got enough disk space to run Defrag, you won't have enough for Goback either. My normal reaction would be do delete all the existing partitions, format the hard disk and start over but I presume you don't want to do that.
Can you start your PC in Safe Mode?
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mattdring
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Hi again,
Many thanks for your much appreciated time.
I'm cyber-slacking at work, so just brief one.
Will try safe mode start-up when back home. Also maybe I could remove GoBack 3 as system restore may be OK. I've heard that you don't really need it if running XP.
When get msgs from GoBack [of which it seems I only have 2 message options here] they say something along lines of: you will lose your history or GoBack can forcibly remove itself with "possible" data loss. Maybe this means data loss concerning any files which were unsaved, should you have been working on something prior to crash? What do you think? I haven't done any work on old PC for long time, as been transferring files. All new work done on new PC. So long a system restore gives me a recent date, I should be OK.
I need to ensure no data loss on old PC as only half backed up files to new PC before do anything drastic to hard drive. Think sys restore will prob have a date I can go back to. As worked OK before when transferring files and new work saved to new PC. Been using USB stick 4GB, so taking lots of to-and-fro-ing. Have about 9Gb transferred, another c 10-30Gb to do. A lot of this remainder may be previous back-ups, so may only need to transfer another c5Gb or so. Small percentage of files backed up online to digitalsafe.pipex.com. Unlimited and free, but slow data transfer.
The whole partitioning, formatting thing sounds like a convoluted plan. Never done before and don't want to lose files.
Re: prev post about networking them together [inter-related topic]:
Prev method of Belkin Networking kit [my previous posts], using network cards installed, had no success after trying to get PC to communicate. Said limited connectivity, wasn't sure if that was just internet connectivity or general connectivity. Only need to network to transfer files to new one. After many files and transfer settings wizard attempts, gave up, as no joy. Maybe could borrow mate's ext hard drive.
The Belkin SOHO networking kit has 2 network cards that I have screwed into PCs and what I think is a switch with 5 lights on, some green lights on it, some orange. Have a CAT5 blue cable connecting them.
Thanks again. Better get back to work.
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greysts
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I know nothing about Norton GoBack so can't advise you. If and when you get your data transferred deleting partitions and formatting is extremely simple.
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