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    Rescue & Recovery saved my day

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Cerebral_mamba, Mar 22, 2006.

  1. Cerebral_mamba

    Cerebral_mamba Notebook Consultant

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    I had used Uninstaller 2006 to uninstall a few applications and clean my registry and the next thing I know is that my windows is totally messed up. Luckly, I had made a backup a week or so earlier and I restored my windows from it.... It just saved my day... GOD BLESS RESCUE & RECOVERY :).

    IBM Pre-Desktop is totally awesome. Is it OS2?
     
    Cerebral_mamba, Mar 22, 2006
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  2. dr_st

    dr_st Notebook Deity

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    That'll teach you to stay away from "Uninstallers", "Cleaners", "Optimizers" and the like. :) Pure cr ap each and every one of them. :) Yes, that's a radicalized opinion. :) Glad it worked. :) Makes me recall the time when Windows System Restore helped me once, compared to the 10,000 times it didn't (now I just keep it disabled). :)
     
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  3. Cerebral_mamba

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    Me too... its a space consumer and I too have it disabled. Anyway, you are the first person I know of for whom it actually worked :D ...
     
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  4. Karl Gruber

    Karl Gruber Notebook Consultant

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    I backed my system a couple of months ago. Bad news, I downloaded a new version of the rescue and recovery software. I have to go through the 3 hour process all over again. My old discs are not compatable with the new version.
     
    Karl Gruber, Mar 23, 2006
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    I still think that Ghost and Acronis are not only easier to use but save you a lot more time when you back up your HDD. Making the image of a partition takes you 15 minutes, idem for restoring one. But I'm sure glad RnR worked for you.

    JP
     
    JPH, Mar 23, 2006
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    the old discs don't work with the updated RnR? that sucks, it told me to burn new ones but I ignored it assuming it just wanted to save the update, and since it can't sort out access connections properly still, I didn't burn them. Is it possible to get the file it wants to burn to DVD and put it on another computer, so I can burn one DVD instead of 5 more CDs?
     
    strikeback03, Mar 23, 2006
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