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Rad Community Technical Discussion Boards (Computer Hardware + PC Software) >> Norton Ghost 15, 14, 12, 10, 9, + Norton Save + Restore (NS+R) >> Recovery point changes data? http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1163873222 Message started by danyb on Nov 18th, 2006 at 5:55am |
Title: Recovery point changes data? Post by danyb on Nov 18th, 2006 at 5:55am
After a crash I decided to buy Norton Ghost 10 to simplify a new installation.
I stumbled on your forum while searching for help in scheduling a Back-up. Some posts by Brian where a great help. I made a Recovery point and scheduled recovery points. After 2 days I had a problem with an installation of a program that I wanted to undo. So I went back to my recovery point. I am used to working with the Windows XP recovery points and expected my documents to remain unchanged. However the Norton recovery changed all my documents as well. I lost 2 days work and all the mails in my Outlook. What did I do wrong? Problem is that my hard disk is not partitioned. I would like to try to start all over and partition my hard disk. Could I do this and reinstall everything with my Norton Ghost? |
Title: Re: Recovery point changes data? Post by NightOwl on Nov 18th, 2006 at 8:52am
danyb
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I think you have answered your own question--unless your *data* is on a different partition, a restore of an image will take everything on that partition back to the date that image was last taken. If you create a second partition for data, and move *My Documents* to that second non-OS partition--then you can restore your OS partition without effecting your data partition! You must not have set Ghost 10 up to *automatically* create *incremental* backups more often--then you would have captured your data up to the point of the last incremental backup! |
Title: Re: Recovery point changes data? Post by danyb on Nov 18th, 2006 at 9:44am
Yep that's what I tought. Symantec suggests buying MagicPartitioner but I would prefer not to do that.
Could I reformat my hard disk creating partitions and then use Norton Ghost to put everything on one partition? Could I then move all data to the second partition? Have never worked with partitions could I find help here somewhere? |
Title: Re: Recovery point changes data? Post by NightOwl on Nov 18th, 2006 at 10:14am
danyb
You must have a second HDD installed, or using an external HDD to store your Ghost image--and using the Ghost Recovery Disk to restore your OS partition? Quote:
A novel idea--had not thought of using Ghost in that way--but should work fine! What tool do you plan on using for partitioning? Here's another novel plan for using Ghost: El cheapo partition resizing Dan Goodell's reply #3 suggests a free linux-based substitute for PartitionMagic. Quote:
There are many threads in the forum about partitioning--for example: Partitioning Help, Dual Booting And other resources: Radified Partitioning Strategies PLANNING YOUR PARTITIONS. |
Title: Re: Recovery point changes data? Post by danyb on Nov 18th, 2006 at 12:35pm
Thanks will start learning something about partitioning and then have a go at it. If it works I will let you know.
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