I start out with a reformat and then load the XP - do a clean install. Then I start the process of updating.... 40 updates to get current!
Then I load my firewall, my antivirus and now - 10 hours later I am starting to add back the applications!
Thursday, December 27, 2007
When is a Full Backup Restore going to work?
So at lunch I see a report saying that everything restored and I should restart my system.
When I do so it starts cycling, trying to reboot in safe mode, none of the modes work.
I put in the XP system and it tries to repair the installation. But it ain't gonna happen.
I try this a couple more times after work and nothing works! I am screwed.
Reboot, reformat, reinstall all software. All I can say is at least I have my data!
When I do so it starts cycling, trying to reboot in safe mode, none of the modes work.
I put in the XP system and it tries to repair the installation. But it ain't gonna happen.
I try this a couple more times after work and nothing works! I am screwed.
Reboot, reformat, reinstall all software. All I can say is at least I have my data!
Christmas Night - Quest for BUMP 6.0
My daughter is on her flight home and we are back at it.
A quest to find at any cost a copy of version 6.0 BUMP (Backup MyPC).
I search the internet any thread remotely related. I see that Roxio is selling BUMP 2006 but it doesn't say what version it is and of course no one responds in support. It is Christmas after all, not that I would get a faster response if it was the middle of summer.
Finally I see a couple threads in the Sonic forum in Roxio Community that tend to indicate it might be version 6.0. Hell it is only $50 - let's give it a try.
So about 10pm I place my order via credit card. I am told I will get an email from Digital River with the download instructions. I wait and wait.... Nada.
I try searching Roxio Unsupport - can't get squat. Finally I head off to bed feeling truly beaten.
3am - I am wide awake, so let's check and see if my order has gone through. Nope -- I try searching on the order number, finally something I do kicks out an email to me and a download link.
I open it up and install the software. I fire it up - it looks the same! WOW it is version 6.0!!!
HOORAY!
I decide before I do anything else I just want to restore the data files - so I set it up for a restore and head back to bed...time check about 4:30.
Up for work at 7 I first check the computer and sure enough the files are out there - and I can see a lot of them, I can open them. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
So now that I got that to work. Lets do the full restore, reboot, and things will be back to normal like this week never happened.
WRONG! I set up the restore and when I come back from work at lunch I find....
A quest to find at any cost a copy of version 6.0 BUMP (Backup MyPC).
I search the internet any thread remotely related. I see that Roxio is selling BUMP 2006 but it doesn't say what version it is and of course no one responds in support. It is Christmas after all, not that I would get a faster response if it was the middle of summer.
Finally I see a couple threads in the Sonic forum in Roxio Community that tend to indicate it might be version 6.0. Hell it is only $50 - let's give it a try.
So about 10pm I place my order via credit card. I am told I will get an email from Digital River with the download instructions. I wait and wait.... Nada.
I try searching Roxio Unsupport - can't get squat. Finally I head off to bed feeling truly beaten.
3am - I am wide awake, so let's check and see if my order has gone through. Nope -- I try searching on the order number, finally something I do kicks out an email to me and a download link.
I open it up and install the software. I fire it up - it looks the same! WOW it is version 6.0!!!
HOORAY!
I decide before I do anything else I just want to restore the data files - so I set it up for a restore and head back to bed...time check about 4:30.
Up for work at 7 I first check the computer and sure enough the files are out there - and I can see a lot of them, I can open them. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
So now that I got that to work. Lets do the full restore, reboot, and things will be back to normal like this week never happened.
WRONG! I set up the restore and when I come back from work at lunch I find....
Catch 22 or How Screwed Am I?
I open up my backup software - point it over to the backup - set it up to do a full restore and what do I get?
Every file returns with: Compression Information Mismatch [4886 1316] error message.
How screwed can you get? Let's search the internet on that message and find out. Oh my, I am screwed indeed.
So I am trying to restore with version 4.85. Luckily I printed the log file and see that I need version 6.0 to be on the one that created the file. I deduce that some how there is a difference in the algorithm that was used to compress those files. But I see lots of grief about other screwed people that had compression turned on when they created the backup.... let's see did I have compression on?
Well of course I did.
But it appears to me that maybe just maybe if I can find a copy of version 6.0 I might be able to restore these files.
So I start searching the internet for anything I can find on Stomp BUMP 6.0 and darned if I can find anything that will help. Did I mention it is Christmas Eve and my daughter flew 500 miles to visit?
Finally I resolve myself that nothing is going to happen until after Christmas so I post some messages on various forums asking people if they know where I can find a 6.0 version. And I try to put it all aside and enjoy what little time is left of my daughter's visit.
Oh the pain of it all. A year's worth of all my financial and tax records locked up in a file that I can't access. Maybe I can get it back from one of those hard disk recovery companies....
Maybe Santa will twitch his nose and this will all go away.
Every file returns with: Compression Information Mismatch [4886 1316] error message.
How screwed can you get? Let's search the internet on that message and find out. Oh my, I am screwed indeed.
So I am trying to restore with version 4.85. Luckily I printed the log file and see that I need version 6.0 to be on the one that created the file. I deduce that some how there is a difference in the algorithm that was used to compress those files. But I see lots of grief about other screwed people that had compression turned on when they created the backup.... let's see did I have compression on?
Well of course I did.
But it appears to me that maybe just maybe if I can find a copy of version 6.0 I might be able to restore these files.
So I start searching the internet for anything I can find on Stomp BUMP 6.0 and darned if I can find anything that will help. Did I mention it is Christmas Eve and my daughter flew 500 miles to visit?
Finally I resolve myself that nothing is going to happen until after Christmas so I post some messages on various forums asking people if they know where I can find a 6.0 version. And I try to put it all aside and enjoy what little time is left of my daughter's visit.
Oh the pain of it all. A year's worth of all my financial and tax records locked up in a file that I can't access. Maybe I can get it back from one of those hard disk recovery companies....
Maybe Santa will twitch his nose and this will all go away.
Some things go well some don't!
So the installation is on. And it goes well. I hook the cable up, plug it in and boot up.
Format the drive to NTFS and install XP. Life is good.
I log in, can see those backup files -- FullBackup.qic
I am excited. I find my Stomp Backup MyPC original disk and install the software.
I check for updates and --- hmmm where did those updates go? What company is this anyway? Someone bought Stomp and .... hmmm
Oh well, lets just use this version to restore those files.
That is when I discovered a cardinal rule. NEVER UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE ON-LINE UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY MAKE AN OFFLINE COPY OF THAT UPDATE!
Words to live by.
Format the drive to NTFS and install XP. Life is good.
I log in, can see those backup files -- FullBackup.qic
I am excited. I find my Stomp Backup MyPC original disk and install the software.
I check for updates and --- hmmm where did those updates go? What company is this anyway? Someone bought Stomp and .... hmmm
Oh well, lets just use this version to restore those files.
That is when I discovered a cardinal rule. NEVER UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE ON-LINE UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY MAKE AN OFFLINE COPY OF THAT UPDATE!
Words to live by.
Moments of Truth - 7 am at Circuit City
Well ok - really was 8 am - I managed to get back to sleep for a couple hours.
8a.m. at Circuit City in my area is a trip. Staff is everywhere...customers are nowhere to be seen. I have them all to myself. Bernanke at the Federal Reserve will not be happy about this but I AM!
I walk up to the check stand - pull out the box and receipt and start into a spiel I have been rehearsing for the last three hours in my sleep explaining how it isn't might fault I didn't know it wasn't going to work with my motherboard.
I am half way into the spiel when I realize she is processing the refund and I look at the clerk and say "you really don't care do you?" She smiles and say nope, refund or exchange?
So I run over to the counter and find the exact same drive but in IEDE. Head back to the counter and it turns out it is a straight across trade.
So I am pumped. I can get home, install this drive and have my system restoring before my daughter is even up for breakfast.
But I didn't yet understand how screwed I was!
8a.m. at Circuit City in my area is a trip. Staff is everywhere...customers are nowhere to be seen. I have them all to myself. Bernanke at the Federal Reserve will not be happy about this but I AM!
I walk up to the check stand - pull out the box and receipt and start into a spiel I have been rehearsing for the last three hours in my sleep explaining how it isn't might fault I didn't know it wasn't going to work with my motherboard.
I am half way into the spiel when I realize she is processing the refund and I look at the clerk and say "you really don't care do you?" She smiles and say nope, refund or exchange?
So I run over to the counter and find the exact same drive but in IEDE. Head back to the counter and it turns out it is a straight across trade.
So I am pumped. I can get home, install this drive and have my system restoring before my daughter is even up for breakfast.
But I didn't yet understand how screwed I was!
3 a.m. Christmas Eve
Three A.M. and I am wide awake. Is it the anticipation of Jolly St. Nick and the 12 Reindeers that are heading my way?
Of course not. It is my wondering about the return policy at Circuit City. I quietly slip out of bed and head down the hall. Find the receipt and read all the fine print. - It doesn't really tell me anything. But it doesn't say all sales are final - so that is encouraging.
I fire up my lap top. It is SOOOO SLOOOOOW. PGWGS! (Pre-Global Warming Glacial Speed!)
I should tweak this baby up, clean the hard disk, clean up the registry.... what part of this have I not learned? Hmmm.
So I finally get to Circuitcity.com and search for return policies. I don't see anything about not taking back opened merchandise. So maybe I am going to be okay.
I go back to bed hoping...... just 3 more hours until they open the doors!
Of course not. It is my wondering about the return policy at Circuit City. I quietly slip out of bed and head down the hall. Find the receipt and read all the fine print. - It doesn't really tell me anything. But it doesn't say all sales are final - so that is encouraging.
I fire up my lap top. It is SOOOO SLOOOOOW. PGWGS! (Pre-Global Warming Glacial Speed!)
I should tweak this baby up, clean the hard disk, clean up the registry.... what part of this have I not learned? Hmmm.
So I finally get to Circuitcity.com and search for return policies. I don't see anything about not taking back opened merchandise. So maybe I am going to be okay.
I go back to bed hoping...... just 3 more hours until they open the doors!
Saga Begins
So I toasted my hard drive and I think to myself this is okay. I have my XP disk - I have a full backup that is only hours old. I reformat the drive, install XP, restore my software and I am back to normal.
Oh how naive we users can be. Nothing can ever be that simple can it? Maybe for some people. But not for me. I don't know it yet but I am truly SCREWED.
I start up XP and get to the part where you format the drive and lo and behold I have unrecoverable disk problemos. I try every thing and nothing works. I go into recovery console, try to fix the boot sector, try to fdisk, chkdisk, and nothing will work on it.
So off I go on a shopping trip to find me a new disk. By now I have spent all of Saturday night and Sunday all day on this problem. Did I mention my daughter flew in Friday for the holidays so she is Pissed because I am spending all my time on this....
So I get to Staples - they have a nice Seagate 180GB that is IDE interface, but since I need a new drive why not also update the technology to SATA? Why not indeed!
So I am off to Circuit City and Bingo - a WD 250 GB SATA drive is mine for the asking and $99.99. And I rush home to hook this baby up...load Windows XP and do that restore of the Backup that is now 2 days old - but still current since I haven't been able to do anything yet anyway.
I get home - open up the case and hook this puppy up to the SATA connectors and fire the 'puter up.
NADA! NADA as in you are so SCREWED!
The bios doesn't see the drive.
I tear everything off the shelves in the closet looking for my motherboard box and finally find the booklet that came with it. This thing is written for someone else because it doesn't explain anything. I see the diagram about the SATA connections - there are 2 of them - neither one works. I search their website from my laptop that moves at pre-global warming glacial speed. And find nothing! Finally I find an obscure entry in the documentation that the first hard drive needs to be an IEDE drive. Whatever! It wouldn't matter if it was IEDE because I am just plain SCREWED!
But I do remember that I saw that Circuit City would open at 7am for Christmas Eve. So I go to bed wondering if they are going to hassle me on the return of an opened SATA drive.
I wonder.......
Oh how naive we users can be. Nothing can ever be that simple can it? Maybe for some people. But not for me. I don't know it yet but I am truly SCREWED.
I start up XP and get to the part where you format the drive and lo and behold I have unrecoverable disk problemos. I try every thing and nothing works. I go into recovery console, try to fix the boot sector, try to fdisk, chkdisk, and nothing will work on it.
So off I go on a shopping trip to find me a new disk. By now I have spent all of Saturday night and Sunday all day on this problem. Did I mention my daughter flew in Friday for the holidays so she is Pissed because I am spending all my time on this....
So I get to Staples - they have a nice Seagate 180GB that is IDE interface, but since I need a new drive why not also update the technology to SATA? Why not indeed!
So I am off to Circuit City and Bingo - a WD 250 GB SATA drive is mine for the asking and $99.99. And I rush home to hook this baby up...load Windows XP and do that restore of the Backup that is now 2 days old - but still current since I haven't been able to do anything yet anyway.
I get home - open up the case and hook this puppy up to the SATA connectors and fire the 'puter up.
NADA! NADA as in you are so SCREWED!
The bios doesn't see the drive.
I tear everything off the shelves in the closet looking for my motherboard box and finally find the booklet that came with it. This thing is written for someone else because it doesn't explain anything. I see the diagram about the SATA connections - there are 2 of them - neither one works. I search their website from my laptop that moves at pre-global warming glacial speed. And find nothing! Finally I find an obscure entry in the documentation that the first hard drive needs to be an IEDE drive. Whatever! It wouldn't matter if it was IEDE because I am just plain SCREWED!
But I do remember that I saw that Circuit City would open at 7am for Christmas Eve. So I go to bed wondering if they are going to hassle me on the return of an opened SATA drive.
I wonder.......
Busted!
What an ordeal!
It all started with my Christmas shopping. While at Costco I spotted a Western Digital 500 GB MyBook for $139.99.
They were flying off the shelf! And I tried to think back to the last time I did a back up on my 80GB hard drive. Lots of stuff at risk there...couldn't remember the last time and I decided time to get with it.
So off I go to the check stand. I get home and load the bugger up. Start to do my back up and discover larger than 4GB files require you to reformat to NTFS. So after wasting time on that first backup I format it as NTFS and start over.
So now I finally have a nice backup saved on my new MyBook. So why didn't I stop there?
But no. I decide a little house keeping could only make things better. I head over to Castlecops and read the notes about all the little tweaks you can do to clean up the drive...remove the clutter... and while you are at it tweak up that registry - get rid of all the dead entries and extra lines of White Space. Oh how I rue the moment I decided to follow this path!
So I get everything really spiffied up. Ran a defrag. All sorts of good stuff. And I am doing the last reboot with something else that needs to run in Safe mode....I miss the sequence and hit the reset button to start over and KAPOW! I AM SO SCREWED!
Some how I frag the registry and can't boot up. Everything is toast city.
What happened next you ask? Coming soon!
It all started with my Christmas shopping. While at Costco I spotted a Western Digital 500 GB MyBook for $139.99.
They were flying off the shelf! And I tried to think back to the last time I did a back up on my 80GB hard drive. Lots of stuff at risk there...couldn't remember the last time and I decided time to get with it.
So off I go to the check stand. I get home and load the bugger up. Start to do my back up and discover larger than 4GB files require you to reformat to NTFS. So after wasting time on that first backup I format it as NTFS and start over.
So now I finally have a nice backup saved on my new MyBook. So why didn't I stop there?
But no. I decide a little house keeping could only make things better. I head over to Castlecops and read the notes about all the little tweaks you can do to clean up the drive...remove the clutter... and while you are at it tweak up that registry - get rid of all the dead entries and extra lines of White Space. Oh how I rue the moment I decided to follow this path!
So I get everything really spiffied up. Ran a defrag. All sorts of good stuff. And I am doing the last reboot with something else that needs to run in Safe mode....I miss the sequence and hit the reset button to start over and KAPOW! I AM SO SCREWED!
Some how I frag the registry and can't boot up. Everything is toast city.
What happened next you ask? Coming soon!
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