restoring from vista home

I recently upgraded from vistat home premium to vista ultimate. I did a
backup of my files and folders using the vista home backup and restore
utility. Once i had completed my upgrade I attempted to restore my files and
folders using the vista ultimate backup and restore. the backup was found
however, the location said the backup location is not available. i used an
external USB hard drive to store the backup on. It is not a flash drive is a
320GB external hard drive. Any help solving this problem will be
appreciated.

My system is a HP Pavilion DV9727 laptop with dual core AMD turion 64x2
processor, 3 GB ram and 250GB hard drive. The external drive is a Maxtor
OneTouch III USB Device [Hard drive] (320.07 GB).
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a bit confused

I would try changing the write caching temporarily. start/run, type:
devmgmt.msc
Doubleclick the removable disk drive device, and in that Properties look at
the "Policies" tab for enabling write caching (needs to use the "Safely
remove hardware" icon)

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Mark L. Ferguson

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"randyt" <> wrote in message
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>I recently upgraded from vistat home premium to vista ultimate. I did a
> backup of my files and folders using the vista home backup and restore
> utility. Once i had completed my upgrade I attempted to restore my files
> and
> folders using the vista ultimate backup and restore. the backup was
> found
> however, the location said the backup location is not available. i used
> an
> external USB hard drive to store the backup on. It is not a flash drive
> is a
> 320GB external hard drive. Any help solving this problem will be
> appreciated.
>
> My system is a HP Pavilion DV9727 laptop with dual core AMD turion 64x2
> processor, 3 GB ram and 250GB hard drive. The external drive is a Maxtor
> OneTouch III USB Device [Hard drive] (320.07 GB).
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> a bit confused

I did as you suggested. However, I still get the same message under the
locatiion column of the restore utility. It finds the backup set as before
and yet when I select the backup set and click next I get a message box with

"The disk containing the backup is not accessible. Please make sure it is
turned on and connected to the computer."

Which it is turned and connected. I can access it from windows explorer and
open other files stored on it but the backup and restore utility still is
unable to access the backup set.
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a bit confused


"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> I would try changing the write caching temporarily. start/run, type:
> devmgmt.msc
> Doubleclick the removable disk drive device, and in that Properties look at
> the "Policies" tab for enabling write caching (needs to use the "Safely
> remove hardware" icon)
>
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> Was this helpful? Then click the "Yes" Ratings button. Voting helps the web
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>
> Mark L. Ferguson
>
> .
> "randyt" <> wrote in message
> news:2F4E0A1D-7FB3-442D-B86A-...
> >I recently upgraded from vistat home premium to vista ultimate. I did a
> > backup of my files and folders using the vista home backup and restore
> > utility. Once i had completed my upgrade I attempted to restore my files
> > and
> > folders using the vista ultimate backup and restore. the backup was
> > found
> > however, the location said the backup location is not available. i used
> > an
> > external USB hard drive to store the backup on. It is not a flash drive
> > is a
> > 320GB external hard drive. Any help solving this problem will be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > My system is a HP Pavilion DV9727 laptop with dual core AMD turion 64x2
> > processor, 3 GB ram and 250GB hard drive. The external drive is a Maxtor
> > OneTouch III USB Device [Hard drive] (320.07 GB).
> > --
> > a bit confused
>