-=PCTechTalk=- Re: System Recovery
- From: "recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx" <recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:20:44 -0400
I am not sure what you mean by "hard" recovery. Typically, when using a
system recovery disk or the system recovery partition on a hard drive to
recover your system the process totally re-writes the hard drive sector
by sector, byte by byte and recovers the hard drive to the state it was
in when it was first booted up out of the box.
This means that everything, literally, is overwritten or obliterated.
If using an OS installation disk to reinstall the OS, then sometimes,
IIRC, it is possible to install windows over itself without damaging
existing data files.
Also, do not confuse system recovery with system restore. Restoring to
an earlier restore point does not damage data files. At least some
settings may be changed, especially if they deal with the OS.
Without knowing more specifics about what you are doing I can not
provide a better answer.
Bob T wrote:
> If I do a system recovery and choose not to do a hard recovery I understand
> I will not loose "My Documents." What about programs I have downloaded and
> e-mail folders, will they be retained?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob T
>
>
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