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| | | | I had a "work" laptop running Vista Business, from an upgrade disc, as XP had
originally been installed. In line with good practice, I ran regular backups
onto an external drive, from the MS software facility provided.
So, following a recent crash, I bought a new laptop, and accepted it with
Vista Home Premium. I tried to restore the back-up and even using the
advanced restore, it could not see the backup.
Having look on the Microsoft site, its nots very clear, but the help
suggests that Vista Business runs a backup "image" thats not compatible with
Vista Home.
IS THAT FOR REAL ??
Does anyone know a way around this without lining Microsofts pockets with a
upgrade to Business that I dont want ?
Rgds Russ.
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| | | | | Post in reply to: Russ
The backup image that you did has all the drivers for the hardware and info
about a DIFFERENT computer to what you now have!
Have a long, hard think about that!
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Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia
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| | | | | Post in reply to: Mick Murphy
In addition to Mick' reply - Vista Home does not include the Cpmplete PC
Backup utility.
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| | | | | Post in reply to: AJR
I can see Mick's point, but if the image saved is only any good on the
original PC, what if the HDD crashes, and say for instance, you replace with
a bigger HDD (then the computer has changed).
In fairness, I thought I was backing up all the data files (as MS backup
always used to do), and not a complete image, but evidently not.
The bottom line is that is there any way I can retrieve data files from this
backup, (onto another PC) without waiting for the faulty PC to be repaired.
Rgds Russ.
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