hard drive image and roxio goback?

[Ed Chait]

I'm going to be getting one of those external USB 2.0 hard drives so that I
can image my C: drive and back it up.

I'm running Roxio's GoBack for system recovery, which uses about 10% of my
HD's space to store files and restore points.

Should I disable GoBack when I image my C: drive? If I try to restore my
image back to the existing drive or a new one, will having all the GoBack
data on the image screw something up?

Thanks for any assistance,

Ed Chait

 

[Eric]

I'm going to be getting one of those external USB 2.0 hard drives so that I
can image my C: drive and back it up.

I'm running Roxio's GoBack for system recovery, which uses about 10% of my
HD's space to store files and restore points.

Should I disable GoBack when I image my C: drive? If I try to restore my
image back to the existing drive or a new one, will having all the GoBack
data on the image screw something up?

Thanks for any assistance,

Ed Chait

Yes GoBack will freak out your USB drive, or atleast it did just hooking
up my 250 Zip (no disk in it), actually it locked up my system as well,
but unplug the Zip drive and restarting worked fine. Never could figure
out how to make it work. As you said GoBack uses 10% of your hard
drive. I took out GoBack and never looked back.

JM2C

Eric

 

[Ed Chait]

I'm going to be getting one of those external USB 2.0 hard drives so that I
can image my C: drive and back it up.

I'm running Roxio's GoBack for system recovery, which uses about 10% of my
HD's space to store files and restore points.

Should I disable GoBack when I image my C: drive? If I try to restore my
image back to the existing drive or a new one, will having all the GoBack
data on the image screw something up?

Thanks for any assistance,

Additional info is that I'm running Win98SE and GoBack has saved my bacon on
several occasions, so uninstalling it completely is not an attractive
option.

Ed Chait

 

[Phoenix]

Additional info is that I'm running Win98SE and GoBack has saved my bacon on

several occasions, so uninstalling it completely is not an attractive
option.

I use Total Uninstall to monitor *everything* I install and Ghost to save a
regular image. No probs so far.
No experience of GoBack but freezing with *certain* peripherals looks like
it's been left behind...
(a zip drive is esoteric? sheesh.)

 

[John]

I'm going to be getting one of those external USB 2.0 hard drives so that I
can image my C: drive and back it up.

I'm running Roxio's GoBack for system recovery, which uses about 10% of my
HD's space to store files and restore points.

Should I disable GoBack when I image my C: drive? If I try to restore my
image back to the existing drive or a new one, will having all the GoBack
data on the image screw something up?

Thanks for any assistance,

Ed Chait

I use image software, GoBack and also use an external USB hard drive
without any problems, however, these programmes aren't freeware

If you would like more information my address is:
anyoneATparadiseDOTnetDOTnz

 

[John Fitzsimons]

Is that an updated program of the original GoBack program ?

I use image software, GoBack and also use an external USB hard drive
without any problems, however, these programmes aren't freeware

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IMO everything depends on what type of backup program one has. If this
GoBack is the same program I used many many years ago on my '98 system
then IIRC it creates a second (NTFS) partition on one's drive.

That would mean one would possibly need to copy FAT 32 and NTFS files,
AND possibly more than one partition, to do a proper backup. Many
backup programs would have a problem with that.

Can one see the files backed up by GoBack ? If not then there may be a
hidden and/or additional drive partition and/or an NTFS system as well
as a FAT 32 one.

Regards, John.

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[Ed Chait]

Is that an updated program of the original GoBack program ?

First, I apologize to the group for posting a question that is not really
freeware related. I know there are some very knowleadgeable people here and
I took the liberty of asking an off-topic question. I'll try to avoid doing
that in the future.

The version of GoBack I have is the freebie version that comes bundled with
Norton Systemworks 2003.

< snip >

IMO everything depends on what type of backup program one has. If this
GoBack is the same program I used many many years ago on my '98 system
then IIRC it creates a second (NTFS) partition on one's drive.

That would mean one would possibly need to copy FAT 32 and NTFS files,
AND possibly more than one partition, to do a proper backup. Many
backup programs would have a problem with that.

Can one see the files backed up by GoBack ? If not then there may be a
hidden and/or additional drive partition and/or an NTFS system as well
as a FAT 32 one.

No, you can't see the files GoBack backs up. I think it would cause
problems to image the drive without disabling GoBack, but I just wanted some
more feedback.

thanks,

ed

 

[John]

First, I apologize to the group for posting a question that is not really
freeware related. I know there are some very knowleadgeable people here and
I took the liberty of asking an off-topic question. I'll try to avoid doing
that in the future.

The version of GoBack I have is the freebie version that comes bundled with
Norton Systemworks 2003.


No, you can't see the files GoBack backs up. I think it would cause
problems to image the drive without disabling GoBack, but I just wanted some
more feedback.

thanks,

ed

It depends on the image software used. If you want to use Ghost then
you will need to disable GoBack, if you use TrueImage you can create
an image file *without disabling GoBack*.
If you want to restore an image then you will need to disable the
image software (Ghost or Trueimage).