[triadtechtalk] Re: PartitionMagic 4.0
- From: "cabehogan" <cabehogan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 21:45:50 -0500
> In a message dated 7/27/2001 7:48:28 PM Central
Daylight Time,
> cabehogan@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> > please explain on the 3.1 meg update sum mo!
> for the update go to WWW.POWERQUEST.COM... and when
it opens go to the
> donwload section patches... will list all their
programs and updates... has
> the listing for 4.0 updates it to 4.1 which is for
98.. make sure is one for
> 98 as there are updates for dos and nt.. so careful
there.... and its a free
> download.. so no problems there....
> usually if you move your drive contens like this
you will need to
> reinstall them on another partition as all the
settings etc are for the old
> windoiws system settings so generally wont work
unless they are seperate
> prgrams not installed in the program files
directory...those can generally be
> copied over to new partiton and will work ok usually
unless they are
> corrupetd but would find out soon enough there...
others that write to
> windows system files wont work and require new
install,but then you can check
> against the directory of each program and find your
old settings and possibly
> copy them over .. or read them and reset your new
installed programs to old
> settings.... as I say tedious work but can work to
bring a system back to A1
> ... not many tech types will take the time to do this
nor would most folks
> want to see the bill for the time spent doing
so.......pulled these sort of
> tricks a few times and it has worked.. but sure aint
the recommended way,but
> I had negelected to make a backup of a system and
found myself in an
> irevocable and unrecoverable mess a few times trying
to hurry up a new
> system... so had to resort to this sort of trickery
to get my settings..
> especailly links and favorites and a whole bunch of
doc files... and it
> worked.. but once again... when its all working make
sure you do a backup of
> all of it.. sure saves headaches later down the
road.... learned that the
> hard way......
> hope this can do the trick for you
Clarence.... Chuck.. in Ok
Thanks Chuck and this is what I wanted to know and will
save it till the
proper time and by the way, I have run all day long
with no defaults and
all of a sudden I have had over half a dozen in both IE
and OE! Isn't that
weird?
.......clarence in TN.......
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