Making a backup

[William B. Lurie]

My XP has suffered some changes in its resolution, which emachines,
responsible for maintenance, has suggested can only be fixed by
'restoring the computer to the original factory configuration'. This
will, of course, result in complete loss of the 8GB of information
and applications which I have developed and debugged over the
past six months. They are unable to uninstall and reinstall the
Display Adapters. Uninstalling them via MyComputer>>Properties>>
Hardware>>Device Manager>>Display Adapters, and then
Uninstall.....does not uninstall them.

So my first question is, is there another way to uninstall a Display
Adapter which is there, and, second, I'll be that Microsoft can
offer me a step-by-step procedure for copying everything (other than
Windows itself) over from C: drive to F: drive, a formatted but
empty slave.

Thank you.

William B. Lurie

[Chris Jackson \(MVP\)]

The file and settings transfer wizard will allow you to copy files and
settings to a slave hard drive or a network share.

Also, it's standard procedure for computer companies to tell you that the
only resolution is to restore the factory configuration. That way, they only
have to have one answer to every possible problem. You may want to look and
see if you have the drivers in add/remove programs and uninstall them that
way, then re-install them to resolve whatever issue you are having.

--
Chris Jackson
Software Engineer
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Associate Expert
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"William B. Lurie" > wrote in message
...
> My XP has suffered some changes in its resolution, which emachines,
> responsible for maintenance, has suggested can only be fixed by
> 'restoring the computer to the original factory configuration'. This
> will, of course, result in complete loss of the 8GB of information
> and applications which I have developed and debugged over the
> past six months. They are unable to uninstall and reinstall the
> Display Adapters. Uninstalling them via MyComputer>>Properties>>
> Hardware>>Device Manager>>Display Adapters, and then
> Uninstall.....does not uninstall them.
>
> So my first question is, is there another way to uninstall a Display
> Adapter which is there, and, second, I'll be that Microsoft can
> offer me a step-by-step procedure for copying everything (other than
> Windows itself) over from C: drive to F: drive, a formatted but
> empty slave.
>
> Thank you.
>
> William B. Lurie
>
>

[William B. Lurie]

Thank you, Chris. Makes sense all the way. Can you point me
to the 'file and transfer wizard', while I look for the applicable
driver. I suspect it's buried, though.
W B L

"Chris Jackson (MVP)" wrote:

> The file and settings transfer wizard will allow you to copy files and
> settings to a slave hard drive or a network share.
>
> Also, it's standard procedure for computer companies to tell you that the
> only resolution is to restore the factory configuration. That way, they only
> have to have one answer to every possible problem. You may want to look and
> see if you have the drivers in add/remove programs and uninstall them that
> way, then re-install them to resolve whatever issue you are having.
>
> --
> Chris Jackson
> Software Engineer
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP Associate Expert
> --
> "William B. Lurie" > wrote in message
> ...
> > My XP has suffered some changes in its resolution, which emachines,
> > responsible for maintenance, has suggested can only be fixed by
> > 'restoring the computer to the original factory configuration'. This
> > will, of course, result in complete loss of the 8GB of information
> > and applications which I have developed and debugged over the
> > past six months. They are unable to uninstall and reinstall the
> > Display Adapters. Uninstalling them via MyComputer>>Properties>>
> > Hardware>>Device Manager>>Display Adapters, and then
> > Uninstall.....does not uninstall them.
> >
> > So my first question is, is there another way to uninstall a Display
> > Adapter which is there, and, second, I'll be that Microsoft can
> > offer me a step-by-step procedure for copying everything (other than
> > Windows itself) over from C: drive to F: drive, a formatted but
> > empty slave.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > William B. Lurie
> >
> >

--

William B. Lurie

[Michael]

Its in Start \All Programs \Accessories \System Tools

Mike

"William B. Lurie" > wrote in message
...
> Thank you, Chris. Makes sense all the way. Can you point me
> to the 'file and transfer wizard', while I look for the applicable
> driver. I suspect it's buried, though.
> W B L
>
> "Chris Jackson (MVP)" wrote:
>
> > The file and settings transfer wizard will allow you to copy files and
> > settings to a slave hard drive or a network share.
> >
> > Also, it's standard procedure for computer companies to tell you that
the
> > only resolution is to restore the factory configuration. That way, they
only
> > have to have one answer to every possible problem. You may want to look
and
> > see if you have the drivers in add/remove programs and uninstall them
that
> > way, then re-install them to resolve whatever issue you are having.
> >
> > --
> > Chris Jackson
> > Software Engineer
> > Microsoft MVP
> > Windows XP Associate Expert
> > --
> > "William B. Lurie" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > My XP has suffered some changes in its resolution, which emachines,
> > > responsible for maintenance, has suggested can only be fixed by
> > > 'restoring the computer to the original factory configuration'. This
> > > will, of course, result in complete loss of the 8GB of information
> > > and applications which I have developed and debugged over the
> > > past six months. They are unable to uninstall and reinstall the
> > > Display Adapters. Uninstalling them via MyComputer>>Properties>>
> > > Hardware>>Device Manager>>Display Adapters, and then
> > > Uninstall.....does not uninstall them.
> > >
> > > So my first question is, is there another way to uninstall a Display
> > > Adapter which is there, and, second, I'll be that Microsoft can
> > > offer me a step-by-step procedure for copying everything (other than
> > > Windows itself) over from C: drive to F: drive, a formatted but
> > > empty slave.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > William B. Lurie
> > >
> > >
>
> --
>
> William B. Lurie
>
>

[Bee]

I have been looking for a suitable backup software for my system file,
settings, data and applications soon after I had my computer. The
discussion here and perusal of magazines elsewhere have culminated with a
list of suitable candidates. Most are commercial ones recommended by guests
to this and other newsgroups. Some are freeware. And, some are still in
their experimental stage; it should be fun to get involved with these. But,
wait.......you have *8G* of your own *hard work* in there. A loss is not an
option. I strongly advise you to get a commercial firm to achieve these
files for you before doing anything else; any deployment on your own of
software, any software, would be your first time, right? Forget it!

If you do want to have this list of mine, come back here.


--
Bee.
I have found my Shangri-La, at the moment, in ntlworld.


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[William B. Lurie]

Yes, Bee, your list would be helpful, and I'm glad that I
made it clear I'm not interested in fooling around in ways
that might lose the 8G of stuff that could be impossible
to recreate.

One of my responders suggested 4 programs for making
such copies; his favorite was BootitNG....which I
bought a month ago....and whose 39 pages of Manual
give no clue on how to accomplish this.

Bill Lurie

Bee wrote:

> I have been looking for a suitable backup software for my system file,
> settings, data and applications soon after I had my computer. The
> discussion here and perusal of magazines elsewhere have culminated with a
> list of suitable candidates. Most are commercial ones recommended by guests
> to this and other newsgroups. Some are freeware. And, some are still in
> their experimental stage; it should be fun to get involved with these. But,
> wait.......you have *8G* of your own *hard work* in there. A loss is not an
> option. I strongly advise you to get a commercial firm to achieve these
> files for you before doing anything else; any deployment on your own of
> software, any software, would be your first time, right? Forget it!
>
> If you do want to have this list of mine, come back here.
>
> --
> Bee.
>

[Bee]

Check these out with Google search. Also select Groups above the textbox,
then Advanced Group Search at its far end to research achieved comments. I
have to add that I reserve my judgment at the moment. Here is the list:

BackUp MyPC
BootIt NG
Casper XP
Drive Image v5.0
Drive Wizard
e-Backup
Ghost 2003
Image for Windows
ISO Recorder
Nero
True Image

Free: OEBackup
Lexun Backup Solution ( www.LexunFreeware.com )
Replicator ( www.karenware.com )

NTBackup on your WinXP CD-ROM ( http://aumha.org/a/fasthtm ) F.A.S.T. Wizard
in Articles section.

Post back here and tell us how to get along. Good luck.


--
Bee.
I have found my Shangri-La, at the moment, in ntlworld.


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[Microbes@Work]

What I once did (a long while back) was to borrow a cheap display card, let
the OS detect and install it.

Replace the cheap display card with your normal display card, the OS should
re-install your 'new' hardware.

Quicker than backing up 8GB of data?

AC

On Mon, 05 May 2003 20:36:46 -0400, "William B. Lurie"
> wrote:

>My XP has suffered some changes in its resolution, which emachines,
>responsible for maintenance, has suggested can only be fixed by
>'restoring the computer to the original factory configuration'. This
>will, of course, result in complete loss of the 8GB of information
>and applications which I have developed and debugged over the
>past six months. They are unable to uninstall and reinstall the
>Display Adapters. Uninstalling them via MyComputer>>Properties>>
>Hardware>>Device Manager>>Display Adapters, and then
>Uninstall.....does not uninstall them.
>
>So my first question is, is there another way to uninstall a Display
>Adapter which is there, and, second, I'll be that Microsoft can
>offer me a step-by-step procedure for copying everything (other than
>Windows itself) over from C: drive to F: drive, a formatted but
>empty slave.
>
>Thank you.
>
> William B. Lurie
>

[Bee]

Fantastic. I'd love to find out more about this technique. What is a
display card? Surely you don't mean a graphics card, a graphics accelerator
board, do you?

Oh, William, "archive" not "achieve" in my posts, and also, ISO Recorder is
a freeware. It must have been a lapse of senility. <g>


--
Bee.
I have found my Shangri-La, at the moment, in ntlworld.


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[Bee]

Microbes, ignore my last post: I misunderstood your message.


--
Bee.
I have found my Shangri-La, at the moment, in ntlworld.


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