Dell Back-up and recovery questions???

[WeldPhaser]

Hey people,

I just want to thank everyone who has helped me thus far in my very uphill battle w/ Win8. Anyway I'm now back to a fresh start. Now, before I go much further I would like to take blu advice and make a back up.

Can I do this with dell back up and recovery under the rescue disk section? How does it work when I need to use it? Under drive content in the program there are three boxes to check:

1.Recover Media (is already pre-checked)

2. Applications, Drivers, Utilities(Already pre-checked)

3.System Back up (this one is un-checked now, but I'm guessing I want to check this box too right?

Will I be able to access this rescue disk in the advanced start up mode where it says something like recover from cd or external drive?

[bludgard]

Grab a USB flash drive or dard drive and forget the DVDs. Much quicker and more reliable. If DVDs are the only thing handy, by all means put them to use. Check all boxes for initial back-up.

One will have an option to browse for connected devices when in recovery console.

Good job getting the machine back. When installing programs and software, please read options offered and uncheck/opt-out of anything that is not part of the software. One can (often) use a file extractor like 7z to extract programs from installers containing garbage.

Also remove any preinstalled antivirus/malware programs and run the native Windows Defender. Not a bad program IMO.

[WeldPhaser]

Grab a USB flash drive or dard drive and forget the DVDs. Much quicker and more reliable. If DVDs are the only thing handy, by all means put them to use. Check all boxes for initial back-up.

One will have an option to browse for connected devices when in recovery console.

Good job getting the machine back. When installing programs and software, please read options offered and uncheck/opt-out of anything that is not part of the software. One can (often) use a file extractor like 7z to extract programs from installers containing garbage.

Also remove any preinstalled antivirus/malware programs and run the native Windows Defender. Not a bad program IMO.

Thanks blu, and it def was not easy. I am currently running good in Win8, and I will def do the back-up. I had to rescue the machine twice. Once completely back to default, and the second time I was able to load it off the image I saved. Sooo Thank you..

I have done exactly this in removing mcafee, and letting windows defender be the bouncer.. I'm also running super anti-spyware w/ it.

Now, is anyone here familar w/ PostgresQL? Well, I'm going to start a thread about it, and the problems I'm having wth it..