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- GoBack 3.1
- README.TXT
- September 2001
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- I M P O R T A N T U P D A T E S A N D N O T I C E S
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- All users of GoBack should read the following before installation.
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- Before installation and during the course of using the
- computer on which GoBack is installed, it may be necessary
- to understand and apply information from this document.
-
- GoBack adds an underlying safety net to the use of your
- computer. However, it is not a replacement for backups.
- In many situations, GoBack will be able to restore your
- entire computer or a specific file that would otherwise be
- lost. However, this ability should not be assumed. GoBack's
- restorative ability is a function of, among other things, the
- intensity of disk usage and the amount of disk space allocated
- for tracking.
-
- A tutorial about the unique features and abilities of GoBack
- can be launched from the GoBack Main Menu.
-
- The GoBack movie is only available in the English language.
- It is located on the product CD in USA\GoBack Preview.exe or
- the Roxio web site (www.roxio.com).
-
- GoBack can only be correctly uninstalled using Add/Remove Programs.
- To do so, click Start, Settings, then Control Panel. Do NOT allow
- any third party utilities to monitor the uninstall process or it
- will not complete successfully.
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- The following are important issues relating to the use
- of GoBack.
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- - Before installation
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- Before installing any major application, including GoBack,
- you should backup your entire system.
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- - Drive support / device drivers
-
- GoBack can protect all drives that are recognized by the
- BIOS. If your drive is not recognized during the
- initial BIOS hardware identification phase of the boot or
- requires special device drivers, you will not be able to use
- GoBack with that drive. GoBack does not protect removable
- media, like floppy, Zip, etc.
-
- Dynamic Disk Overlays (DDOs) are supported for most major
- brands under Windows 95/98/Me. They are not supported nor
- recommended for GoBack installations under Windows NT/2000/XP.
- Examples include Ontrack's Disk Manager and StorageSoft's
- EZ-Drive.
-
-
- - Operating system compatibility and upgrading
-
- GoBack is compatible with all versions of Microsoft
- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me (Millennium
- Edition), Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
- GoBack is not compatible with other operating systems.
-
- GoBack is not compatible with some advanced features
- of Windows NT/2000/XP usually associated with servers.
- Examples include multiple processors, volume sets, dynamic
- disks, and striping.
-
- When upgrading or changing operating systems, GoBack
- should first be uninstalled using the Add/Remove Programs
- option in the Windows Control Panel. Then the new operating
- system should be installed/upgraded. A version of GoBack
- that supports the new operating system should then be
- obtained and installed.
-
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- - Dual booting
-
- Dual booting is only supported for the following configuration:
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- - Only two operating systems are being installed and one
- is Windows 9x/Me and the other is Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP.
- - The Microsoft supplied boot manager is the only
- boot manager.
- - GoBack must be installed once for each operating system,
- disabling (not uninstalling) GoBack between installs.
-
- For the GoBack Electronic Software Download (ESD) you will
- need to download the ESD product from within each operating
- system for the installation to complete successfully.
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- For complete information on installing GoBack on a dual-boot
- system, please visit our knowledgebase at www.goback.com.
-
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- - Windows System Restore in Windows Me and Windows XP
-
- GoBack is compatible with the Windows System Restore
- feature in Windows Me and Windows XP. On a Windows Me
- system when GoBack is installed a GoBack message will be
- displayed informing you that it will disable System
- Restore and make itself the default restore program.
- You can re-enable System Restore if you wish. On a Windows
- XP system when GoBack is installed, System Restore will NOT
- be disabled.
-
-
- - Using disk compression utilities
-
- Disk-level compressed drives are not supported by GoBack.
- (such as DriveSpace, DoubleSpace, etc.). However, GoBack is
- fully compatible with file-level compression, such as that
- provided by PKZIP, WINZIP, and ARJ. GoBack is also compatible
- with the compression built into Window NT/2000/XP.
-
-
- - Obtaining optimal technical support
-
- In some situations, to aid technical support, they
- may ask you to boot from a floppy diskette.
- It is suggested that you create a bootable
- floppy disk and copy the file gb_prog.exe to it. If there
- is not enough available space on your boot floppy,
- the gb_prog.exe file can be copied onto a separate
- floppy disk. This file is located by default in
- c:\program files\roxio\goback.
-
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- Other recommended reading is found by selecting Help from
- within any of the GoBack applications or in the User's Guide.
- There are many useful articles in our support knowledgebase
- online at http://www.goback.com.
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