I'm trying to restore my operating system from a separate partition on my Lenovo ThinkPad R61i. I try to install the last backup I made from the Rescue and Recovery partition, but Windows XP Professional won't load. When I look at Rescue and Recovery's error log, I see Carbonite errors galore. I'd like to delete the Carbonite program but I don't think there's any straightforward way to delete files from Rescue and Recovery. Help. Lura
Operating system unable to load due to Carbonite (I think)
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Hi. I'm way past the Carbonite and operating system thing now. My computer is working. I'm not even sure if Carbonite was the real problem, but information on their website leads me to believe that when preforming a system backup, the program should be disabled so it does not interfere in any way with the restore of that particular backup. However, no technician I talked to at Carbonite was helpful with regard to this problem. Lura
old_school
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Im sorr maybe I been sleeping the last ten years I been repairing computers but what is "Carbonite". I've herd some strange refferences but where did this come from?
pane-free
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From what I gather, Carbonite is one of the first purveyors of Infrastructure As A Service on the Cloud -- online backup, if you will. Paul Harvey (or his successor) made it known via radio. Don't know its mechanics, but it sounds as if it takes over the registry in Windows as far as system backup goes. A person can read more about it here.
Hi. Thanks for the responses. Yes, Carbonite is an online backup system and it works well, but it is always operating in the background and I still don't know how that affects system backups and restores so I've decided not to use it right now. It only backs up your data, so if you get into real trouble, you need a backup that contains all the system files.
But Carbonite has lots of advantages: it's convenient for people on the run because you can download your individual files from their site to another computer if you need them, so in a sense I guess it could be looked at as a user file storage in the cloud. The other good thing about it is that it is "up to the minute" so your files really are current.
All the best, Lura
But Carbonite has lots of advantages: it's convenient for people on the run because you can download your individual files from their site to another computer if you need them, so in a sense I guess it could be looked at as a user file storage in the cloud. The other good thing about it is that it is "up to the minute" so your files really are current.
All the best, Lura