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- SecondChance(TM) by PowerQuest(R)
- Version 2.01
-
- Copyright (c) 1996-1999 PowerQuest Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
- PowerQuest is a registered trademark and SecondChance is a trademark of
- PowerQuest Corporation in the United States and elsewhere.
-
- SecondChance runs on Windows 95 and Windows 98 systems with at least
- 20 MB free disk space and 16 MB of RAM. After installation
- is complete, start SecondChance and open the Help file. Please take
- a few minutes to read through the Help file to familiarize yourself
- with the operation and feature set of SecondChance.
-
-
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- -----------------
- 1. Manual Checkpoint Restoration
- 2. DOS Mode
- 3. Windows System Folder
- 4. Drive Limits and Checkpoint Maintenance
- 5. Removable Media/Floating Drive Letters
- 6. Excluding Directories
- 7. Miscellaneous
- 8. Partition Magician Newsletter
-
-
- 1. Manual Checkpoint Restoration
- ---------------------------------
- If you lose your SecondChance emergency boot disk and you need to restore
- your computer to an earlier Checkpoint, do the following:
- Boot the computer with your Windows startup diskette. At the C:
- prompt, change to the C:\PQSC\PROGRAM directory, type CRESTORE, and
- press <Enter>. The SecondChance DOS restore dialog will appear on your
- screen and you can select a Checkpoint to restore.
-
- If you experience a power outage or some other system failure that
- interrupts the Checkpoint restoration, SecondChance will attempt to
- continue with the restore when you reboot your system. If you cannot
- restore your system and SecondChance keeps starting when you boot your
- system, boot your system to 'Safe mode command prompt only' (see the
- section entitled, "Bypassing your startup files" in the Windows 95
- manual, or "Using a startup disk" in the Windows 98 manual). At the
- C: prompt, change to the C:\PQSC\PROGRAM directory and delete the
- CRESTORE.CMD file and reboot your system.
-
-
- 2. DOS Mode
- ------------
- SecondChance will not detect changes made while in DOS mode, such
- as deleting or modifying a file. Because of this, changes made in
- DOS mode cannot be restored.
-
- If SecondChance has been loaded, it will detect and restore files/folders
- that have been modified or deleted while Windows is running. Changes
- made in a Windows DOS box will be detected and recorded by SecondChance.
-
-
- 3. Windows System Folder
- -------------------------
- To restore files back to the Windows folder, restore to a previous
- Checkpoint. Many files in the Windows folder are open; the Viewer
- is unable to restore opened files.
-
-
- 4. Drive Limits and Checkpoint Maintenance
- -------------------------------------------
- If SecondChance reaches the drive limit that has been set, it will prompt
- you to delete old Checkpoints (see "Enable Checkpoint discard
- notification" under the "Manage Checkpoints" topic in the help file).
- You can disable this function and SecondChance will automatically discard
- the Checkpoints when the drive limit has been reached. It is highly
- recommended that you manually maintain your Checkpoint list to avoid
- drive space issues. If more then one drive is being monitored and one
- of the drives reaches its drive limit, Checkpoints are deleted only
- from the drive that has reached its limit. This could cause some
- Checkpoints to become out of sync if there is data dependent on multiple
- drives.
-
- In the Options tab, under the Limits feature, the 'Checkpoint Space
- Limit Exception for All Drives' option allows you to override the
- 'Space Limit for Checkpoints' option (see "Change space limits for drives"
- under the "Manage Checkpoints" topic in the help file).
-
- Make sure you have enough room for your Checkpoints and your Windows
- swap file. You should maintain at least 95-100 MB of free space for
- the Windows swap file. For more information on setting your free space
- limit, see "Change space limits for drives" under the Manage
- Checkpoints topic in the SecondChance help file.
-
-
- 5. Removable Media/Floating Drive Letters
- ------------------------------------------
- Do not monitor removable drives which have been set as fixed disks.
- If you have a removable drive in your machine, we recommend changing
- the drive letter to something further down the drive letter chain,
- for example, from E: to M:. SecondChance will boot to a "DOS boot mode"
- when it is restoring a Checkpoint. Your drive letters may change
- when the removable drive is disconnected. Windows can change the
- drive letters of your monitored drives when you add or remove drives
- from your system. SecondChance detects this situation at system startup
- by checking the monitored drives to see if any have moved. If
- SecondChance detects this situation, it will attempt to see what drive
- has moved and where it went, then attempt to roll the drive back.
- The logic SecondChance uses may select the wrong drive if a new drive or
- an unmonitored drive is a copy of the drive or partition SecondChance is
- looking for.
-
-
- 6. Excluding Directories
- -------------------------
- Once a directory has been added to the Excluded Directory list, no changes
- in that directory will be tracked or restored from that point forward.
- The exception to this rule is a file that is moved into the Excluded
- Directory from a directory that is not excluded. This file will continue
- to be tracked in case the user wants to restore the system back to a
- Checkpoint created prior to the directory being excluded, and the user
- wants the file to go back to its original location.
-
- If the user restores to a Checkpoint that was created before the folder
- was excluded, any files that were modified or deleted after that
- Checkpoint was created but before the folder was excluded will be
- restored.
-
-
- 7. Miscellaneous
- -----------------
- 7.1 If you are using the Recycle Bin, SecondChance will show deleted
- files as 'Moved' in the Viewer until you empty the Recycle Bin.
- Once the Recycle Bin has been emptied, the files will appear as
- deleted in the Viewer. If the Recycle Bin is off, SecondChance
- will keep a copy of the file in the Checkpoint folder when it is
- deleted.
-
- 7.2 SecondChance will not undo partition changes.
-
- 7.3 If you are using any kind of imaging software and you want to
- restore a drive's image using something like Drive Image(R), stop
- monitoring the affected drive before you restore the image.
- After the image has been successfully restored, add the drive
- back to the Add/Remove drives list in SecondChance
- (see "Add drives to Checkpoint monitoring" in the Manage
- Checkpoints topic in the SecondChance help file).
-
- 7.4 On multiple boot systems, SecondChance only works when you boot to
- your Windows 95/98 operating system that contains the SecondChance
- software. If you boot to Windows NT, DOS, Unix, OS/2, Linux,
- BeOS, or any other operating system, SecondChance cannot monitor the
- changes that occur.
-
- 7.5 Nuts and Bolts Trashguard must be disabled when running SecondChance.
-
- 7.6 Do not move the SecondChance directory or program files with any
- kind of application moving utility.
-
-
- 8. Partition Magician Newsletter
- ---------------------------------
- PowerQuest has a monthly electronic newsletter that is dedicated to
- official announcements regarding PowerQuest products. It also contains
- tips and techniques for getting the most out of your PowerQuest
- products. To view the current issue online, go to the following URL:
- www.powerquest.com/newsletter/index.html
-
-
- =======================================================================
- PowerQuest always likes hearing from our customers. If you have any
- suggestions for improving SecondChance, please feel free to contact us at:
-
- email: help@powerquest.com
- Internet: www.powerquest.com
- US mail: PowerQuest Corporation
- P.O. Box 1911
- Orem, UT 84059-1911
-