Un-Install / which snapshot is left

Has anyone completely un-installed FD-ISR? Ifso, which system snapshot were you left with?

I'm in the process of completely un-installing FD-ISR but it looks like it'll be a while for this process to complete. Perhaps 3 hrs or so.

I'm having major system problems and may have to re-install win XP. When I re-boot only certain apps / processes start. Some Icons do not appear in systry, but are listed in tskmngr as running e.g. outpost.exe. End Process does not work, neither does |Start| |Turn off Computer| I need to do a power off re-boot. When I click an icon only the first process completes. |Start| |Control Panel| it opens |Add Remove Programs| here it will hang. This is just an example, it happens w/ every instance. I did an XP repair re-install last night and my primary snapshot started doing this same stuff. I re-booted into secondary snapshot and things seemed OK. I tried to copy/update primary from secondary and it took 3+hrs and ran w/ 36errors. Wound up deleteing primary snapshot. In secondary snapshot (now active) Genie Back Up crys "System Volume Information missing" and won't do a sched. back up.

I inadvertantly ran a de-frag on my external USB and I -think I corrupted all my archived snapshots and system images. (not sure about ATI system images)

I plan on a clean re-install of FD-ISR, but I'm wonderingwhat I'll be left to work with? If my explanation appears convoluted, it's because I've been up all night screwing around with this.

BTW: after the XP repair re-install I saved a system restore point. Would it pay to sys restore and then re-install FD-ISR?

...screamer

 

Whatever Snapshot that you are in when you unistall, that now becomes your c:drive.

Don't know about your System Restore question; I have it turned off because with FirstDefense, I have never needed it.

Acadia

 

Ron, Genie has an online back up service, but I back up to an external HDD.
I found some info online about resurecting the Sys Volume Info, I'll try that and see how Genie reacts

Pete, It's been running since 7Am, it's now 9:45 and it's only up to C:\$ISR\2 of 4 I guess when the un-install is complete, I'll try the Sys Vol stuff and then try a sys restore and if all goes well, I'll re-install FD-ISR. If not, it may be time for a complete Win XP re-install

thanks guys

 

Un-Install finished. System was doing same stuff: icons not responding, incomplete instances... Turns out Sys.config was corrupt. Repair re-install won't work so I'm stuck doing a complete re-install of XP. I wouldn't mind it so much if this was a once in 6month deal, but I did a complete re-install on 062806.

I have an image that ATI made early this morning. Can I just copy files from there after install is complete or would I be better off starting everything from scratch?

 

Thanks Pete, I think I may have a hardware issue. My machine lists my external HDD in device mngr. but not in Control Panel. Also, system won't shut dow w/o Power Off. Grrr... this is getting frustrating.

 

Win XP install went very smooth (fingers crossed) Pete, I did as you suggested and only copied data from ATI.
It's amazing how much junk one accumulates. By manually adding apps I decreased the HDD size from 18GB to 8GB.
Now all I have to do is figure out which program keeps corrupting the sys config file. Naturally I hope it's one I neglected to add