re "Is it ("Go Back") a good addition or necessary to have if one has Norton System Works?"
hi myron,
my apologies for not getting back to you immediately on this topic. i have no experience with 'go back'. i see jw has commented on it recently. i do have norton systemworks, and i agree with tc who said that 'image' just creates a snapshot of critical disk info. so imo, 'go back' looks like the more complete tool. the systemworks manual is a bit short on image info, but i have pasted the general contents of an image help file below for you to peruse.
additionally, if you wish, you can configure systemworks to take this image snapshot of your hd every time windows boots. to do this, open the systemworks integrator, select 'preventative maintenance', 'image', press continue, then 'options' and check the 'start automatically' box.
here's that help file i mentioned:
"Image takes a "snapshot" of a disk's critical file information, a process called imaging. The disk's image is used by the Norton Utilities programs UnErase Wizard and UnFormat (a DOS utility program) to restore deleted files or directories and rebuild deleted folders if you accidentally format or seriously damage a disk.
Image saves your disk's boot record, file allocation tables (FATS), and root information to an image data file (IMAGE.DAT). It also creates an image backup file (IMAGE.BAK) of the previous IMAGE.DAT file, which you can use if your current image file is damaged. Without a disk's image, reconstructing deleted files can be difficult, especially if the files are heavily fragmented. Using Image provides peace-of-mind data protection and ensures the best chance of a full recovery.
Every time you add, modify, delete, or move files or folders stored on your hard disk, the file location information on the disk changes. You should therefore run Image on a regular basis to keep the IMAGE.DAT up-to-date. If you have multiple hard disks or disk partitions, create an image for each one. Although you can run Image from a network, you cannot image a network drive.
Speed Disk, which defragments files as it optimizes your disks, automatically creates or updates each disk's image. Therefore, you need not image a disk immediately after running Speed Disk.
The Image sensor in Norton System Doctor keeps track of how recently Image was run and can be configured to run Image automatically at regular intervals."
hope this helps
:)
mark
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