Back to Dick's Gadget Warehouse! Remember GoBack?

Back in the good old days of frequent PC computer crashes I relied heavily on GoBack. GoBack was designed by Wild File and was shown at COMDEX in November 1998. It was released in December 1998. It changed hands a lot over the year started life as WildFile GoBack, then became Adaptec GoBack, then Roxio GoBack and then Norton GoBack. GoBack was a Microsoft Windows based disk utility, that monitored and recorded (up to 8.3GB) of disk changes. When the disk activity is idle, it tags these as safe checkpoints. GoBack then allowed the hard drive to be restored to any of the checkpoints. It did this by effectively undoing all changes made to the disk since the checkpoint point was created. GoBack replaced the MBR (Master Boot Record), and also replaced the partition table with a single partition. Because of this change to the partition table, this can cause problems when dual booting other operating systems on the same hard disk. Also Microsoft started incorporating restore programs of its own in various editions of Windows, so GoBack is no more. Well, if you must have a copy, they’re available on EBay.

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