it's a bird, it's a plane, it's drive image....
norton systemworks just major melted down on me.
in order to install norton personal firewall, i'd been told to uninstall liveupdate. i did, but then it would not re-install per directions. okay. i uninstalled norton antivirus, then re-installed it. then i went to liveupdate and attempted to run it. it said it couldn't find a temporary directory. i found a knowledgebase article for that prob and began following the steps. everything went from bad to worse. i decided to uninstall the whole nsw suite. it hung during uninstall. i tried re-installing nsw and i got one error message after another telling me that various components were not installing. i uninstalled it all again and on reboot, my desktop lit up with about three or four error messages the likes of which i had never seen before nor want to see again.
i said, well, now's the time to try out that image restore i've been wondering about. i had just created a fresh image of this win2000 partition yesterday (though i installed a few things since then). i'm talking about drive image3.0. i went into DOS and did the restore. lots of scary choices and dilemmas were tossed at me regarding unallocated space and resizing and destroying data and potential for unbootable systems. i think somebody writes this stuff just to put fear into us! <g3> but it all looked okay to me, and i had to do something to get out of this symantec quagmire, so i said, "yes, and that's my final answer".
well the restore went well. for all those brave souls who have gone before me and returned with jubilant tales of saved bacon, i say amen! the saved image from yesterday was restored and all the ugly messy error stuff is gone.
now i just have to figure out why i am still hanging with symantec.
:)
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