On XP Professional SP3, 32 bit, in April
used NTBACKUP to backup boot partition E:.
Two weeks ago I got a virus on E:,
installed XP Professional XP3 on partition
D:, with D: booted formatted partition E:
back to empty and for NTFS, and with D:
booted used NTBACKUP to restore the April
backup of E: to E:.
All files were restored but two.
Then E: would not boot but said that file
NTOSKRNL.EXE
was missing. From an old list of all the
files on E:, I found the size of
NTOSKRNL.EXE
that had been there and found such a file
on D: and copied it to its usual location
on E:.
Still E: would not boot.
How can I restore my April backup to E:
and have E: boot and run as it did in
April?
I spent three months, about 60 hours a
week, getting that installation on
partition E: working well. Now I have
spent two weeks trying to get it restored.
So, likely one-third of all my time this
year will have gone to wrestling fighting
viruses due to the poorly designed XP
security model and getting good XP
installations.
This struggle is stopping my ability to be
a good customer of Windows Server and SQL
Server Enterprise Edition.
More generally, it is very important for
me to be able to backup a boot partition
and be able to restore it later, on XP now
and Windows Server later.
Is the only way to restore a bootable
partition is to use the process involving
an ASR diskette?
If so, do I have to create a new ASR
diskette for each backup of a bootable
partition?
If XP has an update and a backup, will an
older ASR diskette still work?
Can on ASR diskette work for restoring to
either of D: or E:?
