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Question

Best Alternative Program to Windows' System Restore?

Jan 4, 2013 9:43PM PST

Does anyone know of a better system restore program other than Windows' version? I've heard of Rollback Rx and Comodo Time Machine but I've read too many questionable things and that's basically the only two I've found.

I'm not looking for a hard drive mirror/full backup program in case my computer crashes. I back up weekly but this is a major time consuming process that I will only do if nothing else can be done. I just want a program that has a system image and can go back to a few days, few weeks, or to whenever I made a system restore point before I installed one program that makes my system a little buggy.

If there is something capable of doing a quick system restore (~20 minutes) instead of a COMPLETE hard drive wipe and re-mounting 2 TBs of files then direct me to it please. If there is a hard drive mirror/backup program that can do this too then I'm open to suggestions for those too.

I'm open to both Freeware or Paid for programs.

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Re: System Restore
Jan 5, 2013 9:17PM PST

I don't think such a program exists.

The best alternative: make a 60 GB partition for your system and programs and a 1.94 GB partition for everything else. Making an image of that 60 GB partition as a file on that 1.94 GB partition (using Clonezilla, Acronis True Image or Easeus Todo Backup) takes 15 minutes or so.

Kees

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System restore
Jun 16, 2013 3:19AM PDT

Information provided by @Kees_B is very true. I used Acronis True Image and I went a step further and copied the image on a DVD. I keep that 60+GB HDD unplugged in a safe place. So far I have not needed it(fingers crossed). Not an answer just my 2 cents.