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To: wily who wrote (1549)	1/14/1999 12:16:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 110652

wily, thanks for your monitor thoughts! On the rescue CD: a friend told me he used his twice on his HP PC and it worked fine. I like the idea of restoring the factory software that way, because it's pretty hard for a CD to get corrupted. The difficulty of restoring from magnetic media after selective backup is that you may not have made a complete selection. There are always some files somewhere [in the registry for example] that you may have missed. Then there is file sharing and God knows where the shared files reside. Gottfried

To: wily who wrote (1549)	1/15/1999 1:25:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 110652

I wonder how well that works and how it compares to fixes such as having an image of the original install A Drive Image does a complete restore just like the manufacturers complete restore from CD. Drive Image uses a sector by sector copy. One does not do any selective file backup with Drive Image. The advantage of Drive Image over the original install is that it does not take you back so far. The manufactures restore CD will wipe out everything and take you back to square one. Proper implementation of Drive Image will take you back to your last working backup. Highly recommended Zeuspaul