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Answer» YESTERDAY I INSTALLED a flash drive. It is "MYGS Drive (J:)". It has 5 files in it, one of which is "BOB-PC. That file has one "backup set" which I ran after I installed the flash drive. The reason I installed the flash drive was to keep my back ups there. When I try to run a "system restore" it never asks where the back up is but just runs it. When it is done it gives me an error message and says the back up did not run. Before I installed the flash drive the back ups were in (D:) and ran fine. SINCE the back ups are now in (J:) I think it should ask where the back ups are but it doesn't. Any suggestions will be appreciated. BobFirst, you have to decide, if your question is about backup, or system restore. Backup can be stored anywhere, while restore points not. All drives, and partitions have System Volume Information folder, where restore points are stored; the folder can't be relocated.I could not get ride of my problem so I just went to Gateway, they make E Machines and asked them for a factory restart. They restarted the computer as it was when I bought it. This was good EXCEPT that I had to get all the updates. The whole procedure took at least 6 hours. Makes me want to be more careful what button I click on. I just want to let you know you can start over!!! BobQuote from: Bobh on February 19, 2009, 03:03:45 PM I could not get ride of my problem so I just went to Gateway, they make E Machines and asked them for a factory restart. They restarted the computer as it was when I bought it. This was good EXCEPT that I had to get all the updates. The whole procedure took at least 6 hours. Makes me want to be more careful what button I click on. I just want to let you know you can start over!!! Bob that was completely unnecessary....I'm not too smart about computers. Nobody had any suggestions so I did the only thing I knew. What should I have done? Bobthere was nothing wrong with the PC. you didn't describe any problems that weren't by design. I think your beating your head against a wall repeatedly, as well. You appear fixated with "backups" onto these flash drives, but you don't seem to recognize that this doesn't refer to the Operating system itself, but the more important, irreplacable items, such as documents you've created- STUFF that can't easily be recovered. an OS can be reinstalled,applications, settings changed back, etc.-but if you reformat and lose an important document, it's gone. This is the premise behind backups. if you get a large enough external drive, you can perform imaged backups of your system drive, but Personally I find my data far more valuable then all the hardware used to store it and the software used to work with it, so I always just back up the few important folders I have. |
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