miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
IMO...those system restores are not as accurate (or safe) as one would expect.
UP to Win XP, you had more control over creating system snapshots, and then you could pick which to resort up to several going back in time.
With 7 and beyond...you are at the complete mercy of the system and what it wants to save or restore.
My preference is to create Ghost images a couple of times a year...and in-between, I keep a record of anything new I might install, which these days is only new plugins, and that's not all that many per year anymore, as I have more than I need already.
So if the system craps, I would use the last image, and then just manually reinstall the stuff I added after doing the image.
Back in the day, I would wipe the HDs and manually reinstall the OS and everything else, but that was a lot of work. With the Ghost images, I stopped doing that, though IMO, a true fresh installation of everything was the only way I knew everything was installed correctly.
System restore, the few times I've used it, always seemed to be "partial"...like some stuff would restore, some things would be missing or not be the correct version...etc...and doing it enough times, you end up with corrupt system that exhibits weird behavior.
Since you've gone this deep...maybe you might do a clean, fresh installation of everything.
Is this just your dedicated DAW computer...or like your "everything" computer?
UP to Win XP, you had more control over creating system snapshots, and then you could pick which to resort up to several going back in time.
With 7 and beyond...you are at the complete mercy of the system and what it wants to save or restore.
My preference is to create Ghost images a couple of times a year...and in-between, I keep a record of anything new I might install, which these days is only new plugins, and that's not all that many per year anymore, as I have more than I need already.
So if the system craps, I would use the last image, and then just manually reinstall the stuff I added after doing the image.
Back in the day, I would wipe the HDs and manually reinstall the OS and everything else, but that was a lot of work. With the Ghost images, I stopped doing that, though IMO, a true fresh installation of everything was the only way I knew everything was installed correctly.
System restore, the few times I've used it, always seemed to be "partial"...like some stuff would restore, some things would be missing or not be the correct version...etc...and doing it enough times, you end up with corrupt system that exhibits weird behavior.
Since you've gone this deep...maybe you might do a clean, fresh installation of everything.
Is this just your dedicated DAW computer...or like your "everything" computer?