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How can I get my laptop out of this, please wait while you windows files and settings are being restored, System Restore is removing temporay files?

jhenson — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:24:16 +0000

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How do I create an OEM-style bootable recovery partition?

swinehart6803 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:47:11 +0000

Very simple question, but not so simple of an answer. I would like to create a hidden recovery partition on all of my companies laptops so that if/when it gets destroyed in the field, when the user boots up, they insert a cd that says, basically “press 1 to restore your system to factory defaults” or “press 2 to exit”.
I would of course start with a clean install of windows, with all drivers and updates, they use that image as the one to restore.
We are on a no-budget budget for IT and are not looking at buying Acronis, or a license of Norton Ghost for every laptop we use.
We dont have a volume copy of XP, so that blows the idea of cloning an image out. Plus it has to be “push 1″ easy for the end users who may be in another part of the world. Currently we just keep the eom cd for each machine and use that, but its very time consuming to re-load it each and every time the users crash or break it.
I’ve found some advice, but they all point to PARAGON, or Ghost, or Acronis. Or they point here, then here, then here, then when it boots change this.
How do the system builders do it?
All clients running XP PRO SP3, with IE7 and the basic, JAVA, FLASH ADOBE reader and a VPN client.
We can either have the restore option start on multi-floppies, a boot CD or boot thumb drive.

Restore Exchange to earlier backup delete recent messages in Outlook?

GCtech — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:34:25 +0000

Our Exchange 2003 server recently died and our latest working backup is several months old. We would like to restore to this backup to preserve the contacts and company public folders but we are concerned that doing so will wipe out all the recent messages and appointments in the Outlook clients when they connect. Will the server wipe out the recent messages on the clients, or will it repopulate the database with the more recent messages, or just ignore the recent messages in the clients’ all together?

What is the best way to wat to save the WRKJOBSCDE entries

TJB — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:31:36 +0000

I am converting over to a newer AS400 and what to transfer my WRKJOBSCDE entries from one system to another and have not been able o find an to SAVE/RESTORE the entries

RAID 5 configuration on Dell PowerEdge 2800 hard disk failure

ITKE — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:57:11 +0000

Using DELL Poweredge 2800 with a Raid 5 configuration of 2 hard drives capacity 85GB
Ultra 320 SCSI. Hard disks have been showing failure.

I tried to bring the hard drives ONLINE by FORCE option provided in the utility manager to configure RAID and got the hard drives up but couldn’t login to windows server 2003. It started showing NTLDR and NTDETECT missing messages. I also copied the files using recovery console with Windows Server installation CD but still no use. I still can not login to Windows with the message ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt.

Can i get to the data without a backup?

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Norton Ghost v12 restoring image from a 160gb HD to 1tb HD

Tyrese213 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:51:15 +0000

Hi everyone,

I have taken a full backup of my old HD which was 160GB using norton Ghost v12. I have replaced this HD and installed a brand new 1tb hard drive into the system and did a system restore from my old C: which was 160GB. It fully restored all my programs and files, but the 1tb hard drive is reading as 160gb when I go into My computer then right click and view properties. I went to the BIOS and its reading as 1tb.

Any ideas as to how I can have the computer read this to be 1tb? I looked for drivers but researched and found that windows should have automatically detected system drives… wierd huh?? Hope someone out there has got an answer cus its bugging me. I surely dont want to start loading all my programs and files separately into this new 1tb HD.

Is there anything that I can do now that I have restored my 160GB to my 1tb HD, so that My computer detects a 1tb HD when I go into my computer and properties? I tried many things and spent hours and hours but cant get a solution to this.

Many thanks everyone for helping me with a step by step solution..

Tyrese

Restoring an Exchange 2003 backup to Exchange 2007

Fallaras — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:00:46 +0000

We used to have an Exchange 2003 environment that backed up full storage groups va Brightstor to tape.

we have recently rolled up to Exchange 2008 with out an issue (And are now backing up to TSM yeppy – no more Brightstor.)

Just been asked to restore a users mail box that left a few months back, pre migration…

Well I can restore it off tape, but does anyone know if I can import an Excahnge 2003 storage group directly into Exchange 2007, or do I have to build up a new 2003 box and use the migration tools?

Thanks
Chris Goodale

How do I prove that a full backup of Fi-Co when restored onto another system is a true and good copy of the source system.

Atalanto — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:43:55 +0000

Hi, during a change freeze and after a full offline backup I am restoring this backup of my current production Fi-Co system onto another server to act as a system reference before making major changes to my live production system. My question is how do I prove to my business colleagues that the restored (reference) copy of Fi-Co is a true and accurate copy of actual production before I make these changes to my production system (i.e. how do I prove that the backup is good, and that the restored system and business data in both systems is identical).

I need to to this as part of a very constrained time window so quickest would be best. I have currently written an ABAP tool that will reconcile between production and my reference system, all business companies and Fi-Co ledgers over 8 an year period, and the current sign off being if they both come out the same after reconciliation then this is good proof that they are identical.

The problem is that it takes AGES to run which blows my change window and further outage is unacceptable to the business.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.

Error restoring joined logical files

Gibby — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:59:01 +0000

When doing a full, fresh (i.e. blank system) restore, I have joined logical files which don’t restore (the joining files are in different libraries). I then have to re-restore the logicals which takes a very long time.
Is there a way to successfully restore the join logicals on the first pass, or is there a quick way to re-restore the files on the second pass?
Cheers

Restoring an application template

Twicejinxed — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:44:49 +0000

How do I restore an application template which has been deleted? Have Symantec Backup Exec 12.0.