| Quote: | kuhne |  | |
| You are completly right in telling me I should use a better back up program, the truth is, I rarely use back up programs, I dislike them. I rather not compress anything and manualy store everything in external drives. Because when restores go bad you are basicaly screwed, of course this is bad as well cos I dont get incremental back ups.
I use Nero's back it up for a while and it is very good, also used Norton's for a while but since I was using onecare at the time I figured I was going to use onecare's backup solution, as simple as it was, because I basicaly wanted a one click solution thing. defrag, virus scan, updates scan and incremental updates all in one click, and onecare seemed to be my favorite antivirus, specialy because of the hate of other antivirus like Norton.
I used the back up mainly for music videos and pictures.
as for the backup and restore in windows vista, i tried that and it doesnt even let me click restore because it doesnt find any back ups ever made by this machine. If I go advanced and click on "Back up made on another machine" it doesnt find anything in the external drive I used to back up with onecare | |
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Ok, sorry about the backup restore recommendation. While I have Live OneCare myself, I don't let it do any of my backups.
Maybe, you could install the 90 day trial and recover your data that way. You may have to trick your OS into thinking it never had Live OneCare in the first place. Try uninstalling Live OneCare, delete its directories, and if you feel safe doing so, remove any references to it in your registry (be careful here). Then download and install it again, hopefully it will activate for the 90 day trial and you can retrieve your data.
For future backups without paying extra for anything, I'd use the backup and restore center by itself. Backups have proven to be invaluable to me, and I highly recommend them to others.
I hope this helps. Let us know how you progress.