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No response in windowsxp.general newsgroup.
Maybe you guys know. Grandkids were to be over for visit. So, imaged XP to another hard drive with DI 7.0 Let them have free reign on the internet. As expected they picked up some stuff that I didn't recognized. NAV found stuff, as did Trend Micro's antispyware. More than a week later, rather than deal with surprises that either program may have overlooked, I just restored the image previously mentioned including the mbr and disk signature to cover all the bases. Noticed, after the restoration from image file, I had to activate Trend Micro antispyware again. It was in basic, trial mode. Bear in mind, I had been using Outlook for email as usual. Saving the Outlook setup, mail, and so forth as a pst file prior to restoring XP again. So, tried to restore Outlook's setup and mail again. I've done this a few times before when doing clean installs of XP and Outlook. Always uneventful and successful. This particular time, pointed at the pst file for restoration in Outlook, and the PC just sat there for a minute. Then, it said something about the application's security settings. Tried to restore pst file as before. PC just sat there again. Its normally showing progress immediately. Left it alone. Pressed the start button, that part opened, but could go no further. Then, chkdsk opened on its own. Said there were problems and it proceeded without prompting. A few directories and files I recognized it said it fixed. Then started stating problems fixed with security index with file 9. Two pages of them. (don't know what file 9 is/was)After that, another line stating 0 progress. There was still ide led indications, so left it alone. One hour later, came back to PC. Was setting at boot selection of system commander without the GUI. This never happens. Pressed the reboot switch, and magically the system commander GUI reappeared. I selected XP to boot. PC just sat there after short ide activity. Didn't even get to the XP SP2 rolling progress blue bar. Left it alone for 30 minutes no change, no activity. So, rebooted with reboot switch. Selected to boot from ME in system commander. Worked fine. Rebooted, selected to boot from 98SE, worked fine. One more time, tried to restore XP to its partition. This time DI 7.0 worked very slowly when I tried to point to the image file location, and afterwards. Rebooted, deleted the XP partition with system commander's partitioning program. This time DI 7.0 boot CD worked up to speed, found the image file easily, and restored normally, including all the check for file system errors and so forth. After activating Trend Micro again. Used the repair option from the Office CD. Let it do its thing. After reboot, restored the pst file successfully. All appears okay now. My questions are what was that Outlook security setting stuff for the application when trying to restore the pst file? What did chkdsk do to the filesystem and mbr to trash it? -- Jonny |
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I don't have any answers for you, and I'm glad you are back to normal. It
sounds like the initial restore messed up on one block on the disk. I would expect some DI log to show that maybe, but I've never used DI. Secondly, it may be an early indication of hard drive problems. It also may not be. ![]() chkdsk opened on its own. That would be too much ugly for me to deal with. The image that was restored should have had you back to where you were... no need to reactivate things and such. If I was in your shoes, I'd have saved my data ... .pst files, IE favorites, whatever else you need... and reinstalled. "Jonny" wrote in message ... No response in windowsxp.general newsgroup. Maybe you guys know. Grandkids were to be over for visit. So, imaged XP to another hard drive with DI 7.0 Let them have free reign on the internet. As expected they picked up some stuff that I didn't recognized. NAV found stuff, as did Trend Micro's antispyware. More than a week later, rather than deal with surprises that either program may have overlooked, I just restored the image previously mentioned including the mbr and disk signature to cover all the bases. Noticed, after the restoration from image file, I had to activate Trend Micro antispyware again. It was in basic, trial mode. Bear in mind, I had been using Outlook for email as usual. Saving the Outlook setup, mail, and so forth as a pst file prior to restoring XP again. So, tried to restore Outlook's setup and mail again. I've done this a few times before when doing clean installs of XP and Outlook. Always uneventful and successful. This particular time, pointed at the pst file for restoration in Outlook, and the PC just sat there for a minute. Then, it said something about the application's security settings. Tried to restore pst file as before. PC just sat there again. Its normally showing progress immediately. Left it alone. Pressed the start button, that part opened, but could go no further. Then, chkdsk opened on its own. Said there were problems and it proceeded without prompting. A few directories and files I recognized it said it fixed. Then started stating problems fixed with security index with file 9. Two pages of them. (don't know what file 9 is/was)After that, another line stating 0 progress. There was still ide led indications, so left it alone. One hour later, came back to PC. Was setting at boot selection of system commander without the GUI. This never happens. Pressed the reboot switch, and magically the system commander GUI reappeared. I selected XP to boot. PC just sat there after short ide activity. Didn't even get to the XP SP2 rolling progress blue bar. Left it alone for 30 minutes no change, no activity. So, rebooted with reboot switch. Selected to boot from ME in system commander. Worked fine. Rebooted, selected to boot from 98SE, worked fine. One more time, tried to restore XP to its partition. This time DI 7.0 worked very slowly when I tried to point to the image file location, and afterwards. Rebooted, deleted the XP partition with system commander's partitioning program. This time DI 7.0 boot CD worked up to speed, found the image file easily, and restored normally, including all the check for file system errors and so forth. After activating Trend Micro again. Used the repair option from the Office CD. Let it do its thing. After reboot, restored the pst file successfully. All appears okay now. My questions are what was that Outlook security setting stuff for the application when trying to restore the pst file? What did chkdsk do to the filesystem and mbr to trash it? -- Jonny |
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