corrupt system restore points

Hi

While system restore if it works properly is a good backup option it does not really take over from a good backup solution and one thats good is Imaging (ghosting) your whole HDD, this has the benefit of backing up everything so that in the event of a bad issue you can recover the whole PC to the date of the last backup.

Acronis True Image is my prefered solution but I did try out this free one called Macrium Reflect a while back and its just like Acronis


To purge system restore you need to turn it off and on again and then create a manual new restore point, but system restore is not foolpoof and malware can corrupt it.

 

In addition to making images, as halo pointed out, I also back up all my drivers on every computer and burn them to a CD.
If I'm forced to do a clean reinstall, a last resort for me, at least I know I don't have to comb the internet and hope I get the correct drivers for everything.

Since windows 2000 doesn't have a system restore feature, I run ERUNT.
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
This program makes a copy of the registry the first time I do a cold boot and stores copies of the latest 30 registries in C:.