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Bill in Co.
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Re: Windows xp system restore
I should have added, the assumption being that System Restore does not
rewrite the entire hard disk partition - which I'm sure it doesn't.
And it seems unlikely it would be able to selectively overwrite all the
sectors containing those saved (monitored) files during the restore
operation.
But seems much more likely that it simply knows to erase them (as files) as
a final housekeeping routine, upon restoration.
Bill in Co. wrote:
> Bert Kinney wrote:
>> Two things to keep in mind.
>> 1. Only *monitored* files will be effected.
>> 2. And if monitored files do not exist in the restore point you are
>> restoring to, they will not exist when the restore is complete. They are
>> not
>> being deleted, they just were not there before.
>
> But I had saved them on my hard drive as real physical files. So restore
> is evidently deleting them, because those files are no longer physically
> there on the drive anymore.
>
>> Regards,
>> Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
>> http://bertk.mvps.org
>> Member: http://dts-l.net
>>
>>
>> Bill in Co. wrote:
>>>>>> I've used SR frequently enough since upgrading to XP (Oct. 2001) -
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> I'm a tinkerer/experimenter - but I've never played around with
>>>>>> running a restore and then undoing it just to see what it does. I've
>>>>>> only used it for restoring.
>>>>> Bill is correct in that experimenting is a good way to learn. Just
>>>>> don't
>>>>> do it on a main system you rely on for day to day use.
>>>> But he was wrong in stating that such an UNDO would NOT really undo
>>>> ALL of what the restore did.
>>>
>>> I may have misspoken then (assuming System Restore succeeds in following
>>> through with the undo). But as I mentioned, I had that case where it
>>> couldn't - and failed.
>>>
>>> Also, it appears that many people don't realize this (including you),
>>> that
>>> certain previously saved recent files will NOT be restored IF you use
>>> System
>>> Restore to go back to the previous restore point, which I have done on a
>>> few
>>> occasions. They will be lost - unless you had taken some very special
>>> precautions to hide them in a certain safe place - which is very
>>> annoying.
>>>
>>> The best way to learn this is to get down in the trenches and try it for
>>> yourself, rather than just reading about it.
I should have added, the assumption being that System Restore does not
rewrite the entire hard disk partition - which I'm sure it doesn't.
And it seems unlikely it would be able to selectively overwrite all the
sectors containing those saved (monitored) files during the restore
operation.
But seems much more likely that it simply knows to erase them (as files) as
a final housekeeping routine, upon restoration.
Bill in Co. wrote:
> Bert Kinney wrote:
>> Two things to keep in mind.
>> 1. Only *monitored* files will be effected.
>> 2. And if monitored files do not exist in the restore point you are
>> restoring to, they will not exist when the restore is complete. They are
>> not
>> being deleted, they just were not there before.
>
> But I had saved them on my hard drive as real physical files. So restore
> is evidently deleting them, because those files are no longer physically
> there on the drive anymore.
>
>> Regards,
>> Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
>> http://bertk.mvps.org
>> Member: http://dts-l.net
>>
>>
>> Bill in Co. wrote:
>>>>>> I've used SR frequently enough since upgrading to XP (Oct. 2001) -
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> I'm a tinkerer/experimenter - but I've never played around with
>>>>>> running a restore and then undoing it just to see what it does. I've
>>>>>> only used it for restoring.
>>>>> Bill is correct in that experimenting is a good way to learn. Just
>>>>> don't
>>>>> do it on a main system you rely on for day to day use.
>>>> But he was wrong in stating that such an UNDO would NOT really undo
>>>> ALL of what the restore did.
>>>
>>> I may have misspoken then (assuming System Restore succeeds in following
>>> through with the undo). But as I mentioned, I had that case where it
>>> couldn't - and failed.
>>>
>>> Also, it appears that many people don't realize this (including you),
>>> that
>>> certain previously saved recent files will NOT be restored IF you use
>>> System
>>> Restore to go back to the previous restore point, which I have done on a
>>> few
>>> occasions. They will be lost - unless you had taken some very special
>>> precautions to hide them in a certain safe place - which is very
>>> annoying.
>>>
>>> The best way to learn this is to get down in the trenches and try it for
>>> yourself, rather than just reading about it.
