Question about restore points

I have been emailing back and forth with a microsoft support technician
for the past few days, and they want to reinstall vista with a recovery
disc and delete certain program files. They assure me it will not change
any of my configurations or files, but I still want to be safe and
create a full restore point. I'm not computer savvy at all, and from
what I have been reading about restore points, it seems like it will
only save your user settings and configuration, but not files. Long
question short, is there any way to create a system restore and save it
to a (big) disc to where it saves EVERYTHING on my computer as it is
right now? Like as in if something goes wrong I can bring it completely
back to what it was before?


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A restore point will be worthless if you do a PC-recovery for it will wipe
out your restore points. If you want to be safe then do a full image backup.

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"amadeusmozart" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> I have been emailing back and forth with a microsoft support technician
> for the past few days, and they want to reinstall vista with a recovery
> disc and delete certain program files. They assure me it will not change
> any of my configurations or files, but I still want to be safe and
> create a full restore point. I'm not computer savvy at all, and from
> what I have been reading about restore points, it seems like it will
> only save your user settings and configuration, but not files. Long
> question short, is there any way to create a system restore and save it
> to a (big) disc to where it saves EVERYTHING on my computer as it is
> right now? Like as in if something goes wrong I can bring it completely
> back to what it was before?
>
>
> --
> amadeusmozart <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

"amadeusmozart" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> I have been emailing back and forth with a microsoft support technician
> for the past few days, and they want to reinstall vista with a recovery
> disc and delete certain program files. They assure me it will not change
> any of my configurations or files, but I still want to be safe and
> create a full restore point. I'm not computer savvy at all, and from
> what I have been reading about restore points, it seems like it will
> only save your user settings and configuration, but not files. Long
> question short, is there any way to create a system restore and save it
> to a (big) disc to where it saves EVERYTHING on my computer as it is
> right now? Like as in if something goes wrong I can bring it completely
> back to what it was before?
>
>
> --
> amadeusmozart<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->


I would recommend Acronis True Image Home. Make a complete backup, make
recovery disks etc. This will get you back to where you were when you made
your last backup.


It also allows you to mount images like a hard drive and you can just dig
out files you want from that. Saved my butt a few times.

Rich

 

Hello Amadeusmozart,

A system restore point will basically only be for your system files and
registry settings. It will not save anything for your user account
settings and files.

For what you are wanting to do you will need to create a drive image
backup using a 3rd party program such as the free '*_Macrium_Reflect_*'
() to do this. Hopefully you will
not need to use the drive image backup afterwards.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

amadeusmozart;1064669 Wrote: <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> I have been emailing back and forth with a microsoft support technician
> for the past few days, and they want to reinstall vista with a recovery
> disc and delete certain program files. They assure me it will not change
> any of my configurations or files, but I still want to be safe and
> create a full restore point. I'm not computer savvy at all, and from
> what I have been reading about restore points, it seems like it will
> only save your user settings and configuration, but not files. Long
> question short, is there any way to create a system restore and save it
> to a (big) disc to where it saves EVERYTHING on my computer as it is
> right now? Like as in if something goes wrong I can bring it completely
> back to what it was before?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->


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them.*
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"Rich" <noway@localhost.com> wrote in message
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> "amadeusmozart" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
> news:d3ab07b09b5c53c7adf074895dbf2278@nntp-gateway.com...<!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
>>
>> I have been emailing back and forth with a microsoft support technician
>> for the past few days, and they want to reinstall vista with a recovery
>> disc and delete certain program files. They assure me it will not change
>> any of my configurations or files, but I still want to be safe and
>> create a full restore point. I'm not computer savvy at all, and from
>> what I have been reading about restore points, it seems like it will
>> only save your user settings and configuration, but not files. Long
>> question short, is there any way to create a system restore and save it
>> to a (big) disc to where it saves EVERYTHING on my computer as it is
>> right now? Like as in if something goes wrong I can bring it completely
>> back to what it was before?
>>
>>
>> --
>> amadeusmozart<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
>
> I would recommend Acronis True Image Home. Make a complete backup, make
> recovery disks etc. This will get you back to where you were when you made
> your last backup.
>
>
> It also allows you to mount images like a hard drive and you can just dig
> out files you want from that. Saved my butt a few times.
>
><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

Or, just back up your actual data...stuff you make.
No GD sense in the world imaging an OS and programs...none.
Only idiot home users buy imaging, cloning software.

 

Vlad-the-Impaler wrote:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> "Rich" <noway@localhost.com> wrote in message
> news:eCKtW%2356JHA.1196@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...<!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
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>> "amadeusmozart" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
>> news:d3ab07b09b5c53c7adf074895dbf2278@nntp-gateway.com...<!--coloro:darkred--><span style="color:darkred <!--/coloro-->
>>>
>>> I have been emailing back and forth with a microsoft support technician
>>> for the past few days, and they want to reinstall vista with a recovery
>>> disc and delete certain program files. They assure me it will not change
>>> any of my configurations or files, but I still want to be safe and
>>> create a full restore point. I'm not computer savvy at all, and from
>>> what I have been reading about restore points, it seems like it will
>>> only save your user settings and configuration, but not files. Long
>>> question short, is there any way to create a system restore and save it
>>> to a (big) disc to where it saves EVERYTHING on my computer as it is
>>> right now? Like as in if something goes wrong I can bring it completely
>>> back to what it was before?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> amadeusmozart<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>>
>>
>> I would recommend Acronis True Image Home. Make a complete backup,
>> make recovery disks etc. This will get you back to where you were when
>> you made your last backup.
>>
>>
>> It also allows you to mount images like a hard drive and you can just
>> dig out files you want from that. Saved my butt a few times.
>>
>><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
> Or, just back up your actual data...stuff you make.
> No GD sense in the world imaging an OS and programs...none.
> Only idiot home users buy imaging, cloning software.
> <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
A full drive image made it very easy to go back to XP after trying
Ubuntu on my four-year-old laptop. Yeah, I know I could have tried the
"boot from CD" version, but I wanted to give Ubuntu a real chance.

Bill

Bill

 

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:14:52 -0400, "Vlad-the-Impaler"
<vlad@headsonastick.ow> wrote:
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>><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
>Or, just back up your actual data...stuff you make.
>No GD sense in the world imaging an OS and programs...none.
>Only idiot home users buy imaging, cloning software.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

Except for that fact that it takes a full day to reinstall Vista,
apply all the updates, reinstall all your application software,
reestablish your user accounts, reset all your preferred settings -
and then still spend the next few days tweaking settings in most every
program and windows feature you've used.

I guess your approach of only saving data makes much more sense,
nym-boy.

 

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:38:14 -0500, amadeusmozart
<guest@unknown-email.com> wrote:
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>
>I have been emailing back and forth with a microsoft support technician
>for the past few days, and they want to reinstall vista with a recovery
>disc and delete certain program files. They assure me it will not change
>any of my configurations or files, but I still want to be safe and
>create a full restore point. <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

That depends on what you mean by "recovery disk". If it's a Vista CD
that will only run a startup repair type of operation and re-install
system files, it's OK. If it's a typical (these days) hardware
manufacturer supplied disk, it may wipe the hard drive clean and start
you off fresh.
<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
>I'm not computer savvy at all, and from
>what I have been reading about restore points, it seems like it will
>only save your user settings and configuration, but not files. <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

Correct.
<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
>Long
>question short, is there any way to create a system restore and save it
>to a (big) disc to where it saves EVERYTHING on my computer as it is
>right now? Like as in if something goes wrong I can bring it completely
>back to what it was before?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

See the other responses in this thread - and definitely find out what
sort of "recovery" disk you will be inserting before you do anything.