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Recovery point changes data?
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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?
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Re: Recovery point changes data?
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Problem is that my hard disk is not partitioned.
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!
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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?
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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?
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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?
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.
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Have never worked with partitions could I find help here somewhere?
There are many threads in the forum about partitioning--for example:
Partitioning Help, Dual Booting
And other resources:
Radified Partitioning Strategies
PLANNING YOUR PARTITIONS
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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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