[dba-Tech] Petulant PC

John,

I took the drive to my sysadmin at work and he hooked it up with this
hydra-headed connector to an external IDE drive controller.  He saw
that the registry was, indeed hosed.  He was able, however, to rebuild
the registry from a restoration point made Saturday morning.  He said,
though, that at one point my drive took down his own machine!

I got the drive plugged back in and it was like it was a Bic pen:
first time, every time!

Now to begin the removal of Symantec products from my system...

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI


On 6/5/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I decided to try True Image 10.  I have just had all I can stand from
> Symantec, their tech support is about as bad as it gets.  True image is
> available through NewEgg for $35 including shipping.
>
> My biggest issue with this stuff is actually trying a restore.  I read one
> service site that said "never do a restore over existing data" (they were
> talking images here).  The reason is simple, if the restore fails you have
> hosed whatever chance you might have had of getting the original data
> recovered.
>
> Of course that means getting another disk large enough to perform the
> restore on, and of course in the case of a laptop, which will physically fit
> in the machine once you are done recovering the backup.
>
> I was reading a side by side review of Symantec's product and True Image.
> The author stated that he was a die hard fan of the Symantec product until
> the latest versions started creating corrupt backups.  While the product
> would say that things failed in the LOG FILE, it never actually said so on
> the screen, so the only way to know whether you got a good backup was go
> read the log file.  Which of course the average Joe will not think is
> required.  In fact the author was burned and discovered this when his backup
> was corrupt.
>
> Anyway, I am going to do this stuff once I get my software.  Get a good
> image of both my laptop and my wife's laptop, then get both backing up
> critical data.  I have already moved my family photos off onto the Raid 6
> system, and have a backup area out on that machine for raid protected
> storage.
>
> John W. Colby