System Crash - TGFB (can I start a new acronym?)

[Guest ~~Alan~~]

So I started to boot my system and it blue screened, accusing mrtrate.sys as

 

the (possible culprit). I really could not find much information about this

 

and I really did not have the time or the patience to research the crash.

 

It was 6 in the morning and I had to go to work.

 

 

 

But! TGFB (Thank Goodness for Backups). For the past 4 years or so, I've

 

been using Symantec Ghost (v10 with my XP system and v15 with my Win7

 

systems). Ghost starts off by creating a full system backup and then

 

differentials after that until the next cycle begins.

 

 

 

In my case, I booted from the Ghost CD and performed a full restore from the

 

last full and then the differentials stored on an external USB drive, and

 

2.5 hours later, my system is back. The bootable CD allowed me, with a

 

Command Line prompt, to copy any files created after my last backup, to a

 

USB drive before the restore.

 

 

 

My advise, if you have a backup solution, make sure you can restore from it

 

with as little intervention or pain as possible.

 

 

 

I am also a customer of Carbonite just in case my system and backup fail.

 

 

 

Any tails of trials and tribualtions pertaining to recovering a failed

 

system.?