1st hard reset - what to look out for ?

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Are you making a backup?
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Ron Sommer

"[news]" <x@x.com> wrote in message
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> for various reasons I'm hard resetting my ipaq and I'm rebuilding it's
> applications, filesystem appearance etc.
>
> preparation:
>
> + I've backed up any pertinent personal data, twice, on 2 different
> drives
>
> + I've made a list of all apps I have installed, along with serials and
> hardware ids
>
> + I've downloaded any patches I've applied in the past
>
> + downloaded activesync 3.8
>
> + bought and formatted a 1.0GB SD card
>
> execution:
>
> 1/ hard reset with SD card removed
>
> 2/ insert SD card, soft reset
>
> 3/ install activesync 3.8 on desktop PC
>
> 4/ apply patches & updates to pre installed apps
>
> 5/ assign all available RAM to running applications
>
> 6/ install all further applications to storage card
>
>
> does that sound like a reasonable way of going about it ?
>
> can anyone suggest any way I might be blindsided by anything they've
> experienced with their pocket PC ? any problems I might run into ?
>
> anyone have anything to add to the above which might also be of use to
> people in a similar situation at some point in the future.
>
> tia
>
>
>
> RT
>
>
>

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That is strange.
I didn't know that making meant the same thing as restore.
I just wanted to know if after doing all that work, did he create a backup.
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Ron Sommer

"KDE" <knott_me@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Ron Sommer" <rsommer@nospam.ktis.net> wrote in message
> | Are you making a backup?
> | --
>
> Why ?? if you are performing a hard re-set on purpose, then it is most
> likely to clear out a problem or clean out unwanted items. restoring a
> backup after doing that will only re-introduce all the "cobwebs" you just
> cleared out. backup/restore is great for restoring after an unexpected
> problem, but would not be advised in the O.P.'s situation.
>
>

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"[news]" <x@x.com> of ntl Cablemodem News Service wrote:

>can anyone suggest any way I might be blindsided by anything they've
>experienced with their pocket PC ? any problems I might run into ?
>
>anyone have anything to add to the above which might also be of use to
>people in a similar situation at some point in the future.

Make a careful note of the exact entry in the owner name of your PPC, as
there are some programs that use this to validate keys. You might think
that you know your own name, but there can be all too many combinations of
upper and lower case, middle initials or not and short names or not.

Make some notes of settings like power and battery timeouts, views and
colours in PIM programs, order of items on the today screen etc. You may be
surprised at just how much customising of the PPC you have done over a long
period of time. It is very annoying not to be able to get a favourite
configuration back just because you can't remember what it was.
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Only piece I'd like to add if you don't already know, concerns the PPC name.
If you want to re-use it you will need to remove that named partnership in
AS before trying to re-establish a partnership with the same name. It's a
simple matter of deleting the current partnership in the file menu. You
select a partnership under File/Mobile Device, and then Delete Partnership
under File. You can keep or delete the sync'd file folder as long as you
have the files in it backed up. If you keep it, the files on the desktop
will just be sync'd back to the PPC, given the same name.

"[news]" <x@x.com> wrote in message
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> Ron Sommer wrote:
>> That is strange.
>> I didn't know that making meant the same thing as restore.
>> I just wanted to know if after doing all that work, did he create a
>> backup.
>
> I haven't done it yet but when I do I will be making incremental backups,
> as usual,
> so I'll be able to restore the ipaq to a fresh state in the event of a
> screw up.
>
> seems like the process I will be ging through has no pitfalls.
>
>
> RT
>
>