Hi Mike,

To be honest this is one I’ve never tried. It appears like it may be just a little like the “GoBack” program which Norton bought. GoBack is a very good program, and better than System restore. Here’s a link to Fred Langa’s comments on some of these things http://langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-12-03.htm#1

On backups http://www.langa.com/backups/backups.htm

I think Fred discovered the BootIt and Image for Windows last year and was excited to find it. I think some of the tech’s at Microsoft use and recomend the Terabyte products as well.

I’ll give you an example of how I use IFW & IFD: (I also have BootIt)

I bought a new laptop, defraged it first, then burned an image on to a DVD using IFD.
Uninstalled Norton AV and some other programs that came with the PC that I didn’t want, defraqed and made and image. Installed all MS critical updates, defraged and made an image. Installed a few programs I use, defraged and made an image. Installed some more programs, defraged and made an image. I just continue to keep my PC cleaned, defraged, and backed up at all times. It may sound like a lot of time and work to do this but it’s not time consuming at all. Last time test I did was 1 minute 33 seconds to run Disk Cleanup and Defrag, 10 min 36 sec to make an image with validation…when it’s doing the backup I take my shower. So the results are I can restore my PC actually to any point. I did however in the beginning make some partitions on the 80 gig HD that came with the PC. One 8 gig partition for XP, one 8 gig partition to install the larger programs I have, plus for the temporary internet and mail files, paging file, and downloads. The last partition it for backups. There’s other things I do but this is just a little of it. The PC’s I have run like a dream and if there’s is the smallest problem that comes up I restore it to any point I need. The restore takes under 5 minutes, on my laptop

Any backup is better than none at all, and there are many good programs that will do it for you, I know there some here that use Ghost, and it’s a good product, so is Drive Image, and True Image. I bought and used them all, I just prefer the one I use for different reasons I discovered using the others.

J