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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

  
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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
