Nortons goback

It's now uninstalled. Erik, I have a different but similar problem with GoBack 4. It is a stand alone boxed version. Problem: Something don't know what messed up my file allocation table - Go Back would offer me NO restore options.

And so we took out the old drive, and inserted and hooked up a clone of my entire hard drive, to replace the glitched hard drive. We have needed to insert the same type of clone at least 3 or 4 times in the past - e. Well, this time was different. When I booted up my computer after inserting the clone drive, I noticed that the GoBack "splash line" did not appear - i.

The message said "GoBack has been deactivated. Do you want to re-activate GoBack? Well, yes, definitely GoBack has saved me more times than I can count - I rely on it.

So I clicked YES. I have done a search of the entire hard drive and there is no. So I am thinking that it resides on the original 4. So why am I not just sticking it in to find it? Because I am in Dallas awaiting major spinal surgery in the next couple days, and the disk is at home in Arkansas where all of my software is. I can't return to Arkansas to retrieve it for at least 3 months, while I undergo this and one additional surgery and then go through rehab.

So what do I do now? Is there any way that I can uninstall it without the original disk, which I have no access to? I have read several blog entries that say that you can't uninstall GoBack even if you have the disk But I don't have it.

Is there somewhere that I can obtain this. Or another way that I can uninstall so that I can install the new version that I bought last night? The short answer is no to the MSI question. The MSI file is used to install and is on the installation media. What appears to have happened is one of a couple things:. That said, you'll need to manually uninstall GoBack at this point.

The closest instructions I have are in the following document:. Erik, thanks for the fast response. I followed the instructions on the URL page to the letter, but I still have the problem i. I was careful to substitute Symantec for Roxio when following the registry and Explorer procedures. N95, KN95, KF94 masks.

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It may also be necessary to disable GoBack prior to using certain low level disk utilities, such as formatting. These alternative solutions provide PC restoration in the industry. Administrators of public access computers would prefer Reboot Restore Rx Professional as it is designed specifically to automatically restore a PC after a certain event or period of time — ie. Restore on Reboot , Restore on Logoff, Restore after 20 minutes of being idle and much more. RollBack Rx is an instant PC time machine — and as the name implies it allows you to go back to any previous snapshot checkpoint within seconds.

It is also known as the Instant recovery software. GoBack has been sold and transferred frequently from company to company. Currently, Norton GoBack is the only competitive rollback solution close enough to be shown on the RollBack Rx radar screen. GoBack is a Dynamic Complete Solution. However limitations in the GoBack architecture has many limitations that prevent it from becoming a proven disaster recovery solution. Please read our PC maintenance evolution for more details on this topic.