@nis4
Yes my husband changes his system by shutdown, changing the hdd, and starting again. He runs a computer company ;-) All his business data is located on a server, on the business-HDD are only the OS and programms. On the Game-HDD the OS and Games. In this case he always has a running system if he 'destroys' one system. He uses True Images for daily backups.
@carfal
I do not know the software you mentioned.
The potential of nis4's way of using Rollback is interesting, but actually a little bit complicated. It's kind of difficult to keep in mind which snapshot is for which purpose.
BUT it could be great if Horizon could implement a feature to use different trees/strings (hope you understand what a mean, English is not my mother tongue), means a business tree, a gaming tree. Would be interesting as well when different members of a family use the same computer. When starting, you just choose which tree you want and Rollback then adds snapshots on this specific tree only.
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I've currently installed Comodo Time Machine on my new netbook and it's working good. It is very similar to Rollback. Big advantage: It's free and is able to update within the program without uninstallation. So you won't loose any snapshots.
BUT I've tried it on my computer as well (after uninstalling Rollback) and got a BSOD which destroyed my system completely. Of course I had taken and image before installing Comodo ;-)
In my opinion, best way to use Rollback is to use two different drives, one for the system with Rollback and a second with the data. In this way, you always can go back while the data are unchanged and still up-to-date.
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