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| From | Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: What is the point of the restore partition? |
| Date | Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:01:41 -0600 |
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Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> writes: > In article <ydnhartv330.fsf@shell.xmission.com>, > Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> wrote: > >> If you've found a virus or root kit on your computer, the restore >> partition shouldn't be trusted either. If the hard disk failed, the >> restore partition is probably gone too. When else would you use one? > > There are other ways your boot partition can get fried. When that > happens, the restore partition can be useful. That did happen to me once, on a computer at work: I ran an install program one of our vendors had emailed to me, and it fried the system so badly that the easiest thing was to reformat and reinstall everything. But that was running Windows 95. -- Jim Janney
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What is the point of the restore partition? Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-08-23 13:08 -0600
Re: What is the point of the restore partition? Salvatore <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid> - 2012-08-23 19:15 +0000
Re: What is the point of the restore partition? "Wayne C. Morris" <wayne.morris@this.is.invalid> - 2012-08-23 15:14 -0500
Re: What is the point of the restore partition? Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2012-08-23 14:31 -0600
Re: What is the point of the restore partition? Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-08-23 16:01 -0600
Re: What is the point of the restore partition? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-23 22:09 +0000
Re: What is the point of the restore partition? Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-08-23 18:28 -0600
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