The other day, my computer had crashed badly, it would not even start in safe mode
No matter what i tryed.

It would just get passed the welcome screen to the desktop, and then dialog boxes would come up very fast saying "loading your personal settings" "logging off"
"saving your personal settings" and then just repeating that over and over again. So it had to be taken away to get it fixed.

to cut this short he had reinstalled windows xp, and managed to recover the "my documents folder" pictures folder (etc).

He could not give me answer as to what went wrong as it could have been any number of things, although he had replaced the graphics card because the FAN had packed in which would cause overheating, and could have been a factor in what went wrong.

Also he had created a backup folder for me with the entire PC settings with
the file extention "TIB"

I was just curious about this, as he said if anything went wrong again i would have to call him out, and he would use this backup folder.

Could he have not given me this backup folder on a cd for me to use to boot from if things did go wrong.

I have looked up the file extention "tib" and thats probably why he did not give me any back up cd.

i just wondered what anybodys views were on this.tib means he used Acronis True Image for the backup....
The file can be used and opened to retrieve files/folders but you will need Acronis to do so...Quote from: patio on April 21, 2009, 06:52:27 AM

.tib means he used Acronis True Image for the backup....
The file can be used and opened to retrieve files/folders but you will need Acronis to do so...

As long as that backup is from that machine and Windows was installed on it yes...

However keep in mind it will only take the machine back to the date the image was created....any data/apps installed after that will be gone upon restoring.

I create an image 1 a week and burn the latest one Monthly...works for me.
That way worst case scenario i'm 3 weeks away from current setup...

I always go for the box...nothing better than having the CD.
After all you're paying for one.

But you can use the Trial ver. til the box arrives...