I just recently formatted my laptop (actually just a day ago) and restoring all applications and setup turned out to be easy (probably easier than XP). Restoring Vista was easy but installing several applications once again takes a long time and probably painful if you don’t have a lot of patience when it comes to these kind of stuff. I managed after all and was able to even create a second partition and place an image of my fresh install there so I don’t have to go over the trouble of repeating the process of formatting, etc.
Now here’s the worst part as I have discovered just recently when trying to connect my web application to my local database. The error returned as something like, “remote connection to the server is disabled….” After several days of figuring out on my own, and finally searching online, I discovered that my SQL server installation didn’t have configuration manager. So I did re-installed it and check every possible feature that I can to hopefully install the configuration manager that it needed. I’m not sure what happened to my previous install of SQL server but it definitely left out the required manager to connect databases. Now it’s working fine now. Hopefully this will be a reminder for myself not to uncheck any valid options available if there are any. Now back to the actual development process…
