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Originally posted by jlmalone
Could someone please explain the BEST way to do a Backup, Hard Reset to get the Axim back to a state when you first purchased it?
Also, then could you also explain how to just install back certain programs that you want reinstalled.
Any and all help would be appreciated!
Thanks-
James
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There is no "best" way, it all depends on the circumstances. For the data that is synced (contacts, calendar, tasks, email, etc), you don't need a backup. For things like music files, data files, word/excel/etc files, you can just copy them using activesync to put them on the PC and then copy them back after the reset. The things that need backing up are the installed programs and the registry.
From your second question it would appear that what you want to do is to get back to factory default, then install just what you want and not restore everything. If you have the programs to install, and if those programs either don't create data files on the Axim, or if you know where those files are and can copy them to the PC, then the easiest way to get to what you want is to copy the data files to the PC, do the hard reset, then reinstall the programs you want and copy back the data files from the PC.
If the programs you want to keep do create data files and you don't know which ones or where they are, then you have a choice--re-enter the data after the hard reset/reinstall or delete the programs you don't want, do the backup, hard reset, restore from the backup. Won't be much different than you are now, but it may help by resetting the ax to factory standard.
If these don't do what you want to do, what is it you are trying to accomplish? THere may be other ways to get there.