Hi Andy, it's better than system restore in every respect. Firstly, system restore only restores system, not programmes, as far as I'm aware, secondly, system restore is extremely vulnerable to nasties. Even if you manage amazingly to keep system restore free of nasties there's no guarantee that the restore data is in perfect condition, and thirdly, in the event of a disk failure system restore won't be much good to you. I've never had any time for it, I don't use it, in fact when I built my unattended I edited system restore out. With an image of your C drive you'll have a total backup that no virus or nasty can invade or corrupt, which, should anything go wrong you can boot with and have your pc back up and running again.
John.----- Original Message ----- From: "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 8:09 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Imageing, was uninstalling sapi5 voices
Hi John - Yep, I'll take a look. Just wondering what it's advantage is over say system restore?Andy----- Original Message ----- From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 6:40 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Imageing, was uninstalling sapi5 voicesHi Andy, yes, as long as the system was fine at the point you made the image. It's well worth you looking at. I'd be surprised if you didn't take to it. I think the trial's a month, and if you like it it's only around 40 quid to buy.John.----- Original Message ----- From: "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 5:12 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Imageing, was uninstalling sapi5 voicesHi John - So for example, at the moment, every time I boot up, I get an error message that a certain dll file couldn't be found/loaded. If I had an image of the drive where my OS system resides, from what you say I could just run the image dvd, and all would be restored? -Andy----- Original Message ----- From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 5:00 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Imageing, was uninstalling sapi5 voicesHi Andy, that's exactly what it is, a snapshot. When your system messes up just put in the DVD and half an hour later you're back to how you were. It's a wonderful bit of software. It's saved me literally days of reloading time.John.----- Original Message ----- From: "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 4:11 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Imageing, was uninstalling sapi5 voicesJohn - Thanks for this. Still a bit in the fog however! Under what kind of circumstances would one want to image? What does imaging do? I kind of imagine it takes a snap shot of say a selected drive, so a kind of back up system that presumably is faster and takes up less space than an actual back up. Am I on the right lines?Thanks - Andy----- Original Message ----- From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 11:29 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Imageing, was uninstalling sapi5 voicesHi Andy, I image with Image For Windows. It's made by Terabyte unlimited. It's fully jaws friendly, at least as far as making the image goes. As for restoring it's simple if the image has been burned to DVD, but if the imageis saved to another drive you'd need sighted assistance. There is, intheory, a way to get speech feedback when restoring from another drive, but it involves making an image for linux recovery CD, and requires an external speech synth, so it's not worth considering, unless you happen to have anexternal speech synth.If you've imaged onto DVD it's just a case of booting with the DVD, then waiting for about half a minute and pressing y, this being in answer to the question Do you want to continue? That's all there is to it. It restores the image and ejects the DVD, after which you press enter a couple of times and the pc reboots.The link to Image For Windows is http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/ifw_en_trial.exe John.----- Original Message ----- From: "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 10:36 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Imageing, was uninstalling sapi5 voicesHi John -I've never used imageing as a tool. sounds like it is some kind of back up to protect data ahead of making changes? Can you tell me where this tool resides, or perhaps it has to be acquired? and what it actually does?Maybe off list unless others are interested too. Andy----- Original Message ----- From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 10:42 PM Subject: [access-uk] uninstalling sapi5 voicesHi everybody, I've had the Daniel voice on my pc ever since buying it several years ago. Since then I've installed and subsequently uninstalledother sapi5 voices, and, with one exception they uninstalled fine.I decided to uninstall Daniel. Everything seemed to go fine, but I thenfound that SAPI5 didn't work, not even Microsoft Sam.I ran SFC, and when that didn't help I reinstalled SAPI5. Still no joy. I'd imaged before trying to uninstall, so I was able to get things back to how they had been, but I haven't got a clue how to get rid of Daniel. I need to uninstall before I install another one, as I want to keep my image down to a single DVD. If I install more voices without getting ridof Daniel first it goes over. I can only think that the uninstaller isn't up to the job, and is possibly taking files it shouldn't. Anybody got any ideas? 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