diolma opened this issue on Aug 12, 2005 ยท 35 posts
svdl posted Sat, 13 August 2005 at 1:40 PM
Image software such as Norton Ghost can be a real lifesaver. And use multiple partitions! After a fresh install of a (new) system, with only the OS, the drivers and my main productivity tools (Office, Textpad, Winzip, codecs) I make an image. Other apps are installed on another partition, data on a third partition. If a system becomes corrupt, I just have to restore the image, apply the latest updates, and possibly reinstall some applications. All data are safe. Radical enough to eliminate the corruption, and much, much faster than trying to find and fix the cause. It's happened to me only once (a CWS variant). Restoring the image and reinstalling the apps took less than an hour. Then I had to scan the data for the CWS infection - that was the most time-consuming operation in the whole process.
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