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    newbie questions about restore and recovery

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by aerodrome, Nov 18, 2009.

  1. aerodrome

    aerodrome Notebook Consultant

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    I've had my FW190 for a year now, and just restored C Drive using Vaio Recovery (hard drive was full, pc slow, not recovering from sleep, user's desktops not being able to be loaded, plus many more minor annoyances). It has taken me days to get my personal data backed up, and now it is taking me many more days to get the machine updated and all the personal software installed again.

    So, I want to learn more about restore and recovery. I have some questions, and hope you guys can answer or confirm. Thanks!

    1- So once I have the machine back into a state that I like, I can then create a restore point and always come back to that date, instead of starting from factory fresh again?

    2- In that case, I should turn off the automatic restore points, and just manage manually?

    3- Restore will retain all of my docs and pics saved since the restore point was created?

    4- Recovery disks- these are used if I need a new hard drive? (i'm familiar with having my own copy of Windows, so I'm unsure of what challenges occur when windows is already installed and I don't have a disk)

    thanks all!
    Jeff
     
    aerodrome, Nov 18, 2009
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  2. jpvs

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    Restore will only restore system files. it will give you an option to back up date before the restoration process takes place.

    manytimes when i try to install C drive files only ina partitioned disk, restore fails, it will then prompt me to isntall files to bring the hard disk to factory state - which means it removes all partiitons and wipes out data in other partitions.

    anyways upgraded from vista to Win 7 got a clean install disk.

    Used acronis to back up the image of my C Drive -which is about 15GB
     
    jpvs, Nov 18, 2009
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