Dan,

No doubt about you. I've been working without a SRP for so long that I'd forgotten about that combination.

Jer, don't use the generalization edits. Even if you don't have a SRP you don't need them with IFL anyway.

Jer,

That's understood.

When you feel more comfortable with IFD/IFL we can teach you how to create images outside of Windows (as you are now doing) but without having to use a flash drive or CD. Only if that interests you. I like these things to be automated. In fact, my restores are automated too.

Jer

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Brian has said if for all of us....

Brian wrote on Apr 25^th, 2012 at 1:33am:


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It's not clear what you are saying.  I thought you bought a new system some time ago (week or more?) with Win7 installed--and not *this evening*!

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So, what does this statement mean? 

Are we talking two different systems?  .... two different installations of Win7?  .... or ......?  Did something change?

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On a new system, it is most likely that the HDD is the default boot device.  But, a floppy drive (if a bootable floppy disk is present), optical drive (if a bootable optical disc is present), or a USB thumbdrive (if a bootable drive is attached) could be listed ahead of the HDD.  These devices would be *ignored* if no bootable media was present even though they might be listed ahead of the HDD.

Most systems allow one to bring up the *boot device list* during boot so you can choose a one time change as to which device will be used for booting by selecting from that list--regardless of the boot priority that is set in the BIOS.  One usually uses the F8 key or the F12 key.  You usually see a brief display on the monitor during the initial POST by the system saying to press whichever key to bring up that list.

In the BIOS, you can set the default *boot order priority list* under one of the BIOS menu items--you usually get 3 or 4 devices that can be chosen as to which is 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc..

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If you're saying you initially could boot from the thumbdrives....and now can not--then what did you do to change something?  The BIOS boot priority list can only be changed by entering the BIOS during the POST process and manually changing it there.  I've never seen or heard of any other way for that to be changed--but, that doesn't mean it couldn't somehow happen, I guess.

Can you clarify?

Jer

Very sorry to hear about your loss--a nervous breakdown is not an unexpected response--it happens--nothing to be ashamed of--we recover--we move on.......

Hey--whenever you're ready to work on your system(s) and figure out how to make them work the way you want them to--just post--best to start a new thread.

Best wishes until then.  Hope the New Year brings you peace and tranquillity.