SecondChance(TM) by PowerQuest(R) Version 2.01 Copyright (c) 1996-1999 PowerQuest Corporation. All Rights Reserved. PowerQuest is a registered trademark and SecondChance is a trademark of PowerQuest Corporation in the United States and elsewhere. SecondChance runs on Windows 95 and Windows 98 systems with at least 20 MB free disk space and 16 MB of RAM. After installation is complete, start SecondChance and open the Help file. Please take a few minutes to read through the Help file to familiarize yourself with the operation and feature set of SecondChance. TABLE OF CONTENTS ----------------- 1. Manual Checkpoint Restoration 2. DOS Mode 3. Windows System Folder 4. Drive Limits and Checkpoint Maintenance 5. Removable Media/Floating Drive Letters 6. Excluding Directories 7. Miscellaneous 8. Partition Magician Newsletter 1. Manual Checkpoint Restoration --------------------------------- If you lose your SecondChance emergency boot disk and you need to restore your computer to an earlier Checkpoint, do the following: Boot the computer with your Windows startup diskette. At the C: prompt, change to the C:\PQSC\PROGRAM directory, type CRESTORE, and press <Enter>. The SecondChance DOS restore dialog will appear on your screen and you can select a Checkpoint to restore. If you experience a power outage or some other system failure that interrupts the Checkpoint restoration, SecondChance will attempt to continue with the restore when you reboot your system. If you cannot restore your system and SecondChance keeps starting when you boot your system, boot your system to 'Safe mode command prompt only' (see the section entitled, "Bypassing your startup files" in the Windows 95 manual, or "Using a startup disk" in the Windows 98 manual). At the C: prompt, change to the C:\PQSC\PROGRAM directory and delete the CRESTORE.CMD file and reboot your system. 2. DOS Mode ------------ SecondChance will not detect changes made while in DOS mode, such as deleting or modifying a file. Because of this, changes made in DOS mode cannot be restored. If SecondChance has been loaded, it will detect and restore files/folders that have been modified or deleted while Windows is running. Changes made in a Windows DOS box will be detected and recorded by SecondChance. 3. Windows System Folder ------------------------- To restore files back to the Windows folder, restore to a previous Checkpoint. Many files in the Windows folder are open; the Viewer is unable to restore opened files. 4. Drive Limits and Checkpoint Maintenance ------------------------------------------- If SecondChance reaches the drive limit that has been set, it will prompt you to delete old Checkpoints (see "Enable Checkpoint discard notification" under the "Manage Checkpoints" topic in the help file). You can disable this function and SecondChance will automatically discard the Checkpoints when the drive limit has been reached. It is highly recommended that you manually maintain your Checkpoint list to avoid drive space issues. If more then one drive is being monitored and one of the drives reaches its drive limit, Checkpoints are deleted only from the drive that has reached its limit. This could cause some Checkpoints to become out of sync if there is data dependent on multiple drives. In the Options tab, under the Limits feature, the 'Checkpoint Space Limit Exception for All Drives' option allows you to override the 'Space Limit for Checkpoints' option (see "Change space limits for drives" under the "Manage Checkpoints" topic in the help file). Make sure you have enough room for your Checkpoints and your Windows swap file. You should maintain at least 95-100 MB of free space for the Windows swap file. For more information on setting your free space limit, see "Change space limits for drives" under the Manage Checkpoints topic in the SecondChance help file. 5. Removable Media/Floating Drive Letters ------------------------------------------ Do not monitor removable drives which have been set as fixed disks. If you have a removable drive in your machine, we recommend changing the drive letter to something further down the drive letter chain, for example, from E: to M:. SecondChance will boot to a "DOS boot mode" when it is restoring a Checkpoint. Your drive letters may change when the removable drive is disconnected. Windows can change the drive letters of your monitored drives when you add or remove drives from your system. SecondChance detects this situation at system startup by checking the monitored drives to see if any have moved. If SecondChance detects this situation, it will attempt to see what drive has moved and where it went, then attempt to roll the drive back. The logic SecondChance uses may select the wrong drive if a new drive or an unmonitored drive is a copy of the drive or partition SecondChance is looking for. 6. Excluding Directories ------------------------- Once a directory has been added to the Excluded Directory list, no changes in that directory will be tracked or restored from that point forward. The exception to this rule is a file that is moved into the Excluded Directory from a directory that is not excluded. This file will continue to be tracked in case the user wants to restore the system back to a Checkpoint created prior to the directory being excluded, and the user wants the file to go back to its original location. If the user restores to a Checkpoint that was created before the folder was excluded, any files that were modified or deleted after that Checkpoint was created but before the folder was excluded will be restored. 7. Miscellaneous ----------------- 7.1 If you are using the Recycle Bin, SecondChance will show deleted files as 'Moved' in the Viewer until you empty the Recycle Bin. Once the Recycle Bin has been emptied, the files will appear as deleted in the Viewer. If the Recycle Bin is off, SecondChance will keep a copy of the file in the Checkpoint folder when it is deleted. 7.2 SecondChance will not undo partition changes. 7.3 If you are using any kind of imaging software and you want to restore a drive's image using something like Drive Image(R), stop monitoring the affected drive before you restore the image. After the image has been successfully restored, add the drive back to the Add/Remove drives list in SecondChance (see "Add drives to Checkpoint monitoring" in the Manage Checkpoints topic in the SecondChance help file). 7.4 On multiple boot systems, SecondChance only works when you boot to your Windows 95/98 operating system that contains the SecondChance software. If you boot to Windows NT, DOS, Unix, OS/2, Linux, BeOS, or any other operating system, SecondChance cannot monitor the changes that occur. 7.5 Nuts and Bolts Trashguard must be disabled when running SecondChance. 7.6 Do not move the SecondChance directory or program files with any kind of application moving utility. 8. Partition Magician Newsletter --------------------------------- PowerQuest has a monthly electronic newsletter that is dedicated to official announcements regarding PowerQuest products. It also contains tips and techniques for getting the most out of your PowerQuest products. To view the current issue online, go to the following URL: www.powerquest.com/newsletter/index.html ======================================================================= PowerQuest always likes hearing from our customers. If you have any suggestions for improving SecondChance, please feel free to contact us at: email: help@powerquest.com Internet: www.powerquest.com US mail: PowerQuest Corporation P.O. Box 1911 Orem, UT 84059-1911
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