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I have installed Norton system works 2005 . Roxio GoBack came as part of
the package but i did not install it as i have heard it causes problems
with XP. I have had no success with XPs system restore which never
works so i would like to install GoBack as it was an exzcellent tool
when used with 98SE. Anyone got experience with this ?

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Hello, Use GoBack v3.0DeluxEdition updated to v3.2, have had no problems on
this unit WindowsXPHomeSP2 with all security updates. Installed 20 months ago.
1. Read the information about GoBack before installing.
2. Find out why "System Restore" does not work.
You can disable "system restore"after installing GoBack, but you need to
find out why it is not functioning.
take care.
beamish.

"Gordon@" wrote:

>
> I have installed Norton system works 2005 . Roxio GoBack came as part of
> the package but i did not install it as i have heard it causes problems
> with XP. I have had no success with XPs system restore which never
> works so i would like to install GoBack as it was an exzcellent tool
> when used with 98SE. Anyone got experience with this ?
>
>
> --
> Gordon@
>

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"Gordon@" <Gordon.1taxpr@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
news:Gordon.1taxpr@pcbanter.net...
>
> I have installed Norton system works 2005 . Roxio GoBack came as part of
> the package but i did not install it as i have heard it causes problems
> with XP. I have had no success with XPs system restore which never
> works so i would like to install GoBack as it was an exzcellent tool
> when used with 98SE. Anyone got experience with this ?
>
>
> --
> Gordon@

My experinece with GoBack is when it works it works great. When it goes
wrong it goes very wrong. I have had two customers who experienced problems
with GoBack such that there was no alternative but to format and start
again. Make sure you have another backup method as well as GoBack. GoBack is
not a substitute for a backup.

Kerry

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Gordon@ wrote:
>
> I have installed Norton system works 2005 . Roxio
> GoBack came as part of the package but i did not
> install it as i have heard it causes problems
> with XP. I have had no success with XPs system restore
> which never works so i would like to install GoBack
> as it was an exzcellent tool when used with 98SE.
> Anyone got experience with this ?
>
I second what someone else said about finding out why
it doesn't work before trying something else.

However, I'm not sure why you would need to run System
Restore frequently. I've had XP for years and never had to
run a System Restore. Just wondering.

Cheers,

Cliff

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I used go back 3.0 and it worked very well but slowed my old computer
down. Also on 98SE.

I, like you, had problems with system restore failing, so I installed
goback 4.0 from the NSW disk. it worked very well. It logs EVERY
change including data files and can have a performance impact on a
slow processor.

However, I recently replaced my hard drive and then step by step
reinstalled after market software to try to determine what had blown
away my standby option. I am pretty certain that when live update
automatically upgraded from v4.0 to v4.02, that's the origin of my
standby problems. So I've not installed it on this new drive.

I still have problems with system restore, as during the rebuild
process I had a few occasions to try to restore to an earlier point
and it failed every time ("system cannot be restored...".). I had
thought that was due to my failing hard drive but who knows?

I have ntbackup, (not installed in my original XP installation, but
downloaded from a link on this page:
http://www.winxptutor.com/ntbackup.htm

It works very well as a backup and restore. The backup is not
constant, although you can schedule a backup. To back up to an
external hard drive, it must be formatted for the NTFS. You run
ntbackup from the run dialog box.

Jim

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:58:10 +0000, Gordon@
<Gordon.1taxpr@pcbanter.net> wrote:

>
>I have installed Norton system works 2005 . Roxio GoBack came as part of
>the package but i did not install it as i have heard it causes problems
>with XP. I have had no success with XPs system restore which never
>works so i would like to install GoBack as it was an exzcellent tool
>when used with 98SE. Anyone got experience with this ?

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SP2's DEP issue on an Athlon64 PCI Express system with Goback 3 or Goback 4
(or other "incompatible" applications/programs) can be resolved easily by
adding the following after the default Boot in Boot.ini

/noexecute=alwaysoff /NOPAE

so that it reads something like

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINXPH="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect /noexecute=alwaysoff /NOPAE

instead of

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINXPH="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

System Restore ONLY works if Windows will boot .... If you delete your
Windows folder or rename it and empty the recycle bin system restore is
useless ... if you delete all your fonts and try to use system restore ... it
is useless .... Goback can fix all those and more .... I disable the useless
System Restore (patterned after Second Chance from Powerquest [which is
discontinued software,] and use Goback

"Gordon@" wrote:

>
> I have installed Norton system works 2005 . Roxio GoBack came as part of
> the package but i did not install it as i have heard it causes problems
> with XP. I have had no success with XPs system restore which never
> works so i would like to install GoBack as it was an exzcellent tool
> when used with 98SE. Anyone got experience with this ?
>
>
> --
> Gordon@
>

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