I'm trying to restore an old Gateway with Win XP with the Recover My Computer wizard in NSR 2.0. I've done this before, when I installed this C drive, and it definitely didn't take this long. I did restore from a different external hard drive but I'm sure that it was done when I woke up. Could the newer Seagate external drive be that much slower? The only thing that keeps me calm is that the progress bar has moved up to 17% after 48 hours. Both lights on the front of the box and the light on the external drive are steady, never any blinking when I look at them however. If I have to wait several days I can do that, but those lights and a couple of other things scare me so I'm looking for advice on any of the questions below.
(1) DISK NUMBER: In the list of recovery points, NSR names FILENAME as the recovery point on Drive L, DRIVE as C, and Target Drive as Disk 1. I think Drive C was Disk 0 as it often (always?) is. Should I worry about this? Is this like the drive letters sometimes being different in NSR vs Windows? Or is the number of the disk more important than the Drive letter? And under the progress bar it says Recover: [restore point file name from Drive L] and "Copying volume data over existing volume." My paranoia has got me wondering whether NSR is overwriting the source disk / external drive. I didn't think that was possible. Is it? In the DETAILS box, NSR is correctly displaying the restore point from Drive L, the computer name, and Drive: C and correctly identifying that as 233GB NTFS. Is NSR actually restoring my internal hard drive (C:\)?
(2) REVERSIBILITY: At first it didn't seem to be working at all. But when I went to cancel the operation, the message was that I would be leaving the drive unformatted. Is NSR incapable of reversing what it has done and putting me back where I began? (Windows was up and running [repairman's copy] and Gateway's drivers [original disks] were installed.) I have all the original OS and driver disks from Gateway but I've had a lot of adventures over the years and my memory is foggy. I don't remember formatting but maybe that was part of the process; but I think I was able to re-establish the factory condition once using their disks. This is worst-comes-to-worst of course because of all the updating of Win XP etc.
(3) ESTIMATING THE TIME REQUIRED: NSR has said 99 hours to go for two days even tho it *has* moved from 1 percent to 17 percent. Does the program not count/display above 99? If the rate of restoring is steady, I think the math says it will take a total of 12 days to restore this. Any opinions? If no lights ever seem to blink, is this actually doing anything?
And if it isn't, where did I go wrong? Norton did this for me once before.
I can't tell you how grateful I'll be for any info/advice.
Thanks,
Jeanne