Vista Ultimate Complete Backup & Restore: Need Help!!!

Performed complete backup of C:/ drive to external HD. Vista message,
"Backup successful." Shut down computer. Restarted, booting from
installation DVD. Computer boots up. I select repair computer, then complete
PC backup. I expected Vista to recognize and find the external HD which
contains backup file. I get message Vista can not find any backup files. I
have tried reformatting the drive and backup again. Each time Vista says
backup successful. However same message.

Does anyone know how to work around this?

It should be noted that I have successfully done this before, using the same
drive and procedures. Now for some reason Vista does not see external HD.
BIOS sees the drive when booting. I'm using eSATA connection.

Buz Fuller;406078 Wrote:
> Performed complete backup of C:/ drive to external HD. Vista message
> "Backup successful." Shut down computer. Restarted, booting fro
> installation DVD. Computer boots up. I select repair computer, the
> complet
> PC backup. I expected Vista to recognize and find the external HD whic
> contains backup file. I get message Vista can not find any backu
> files.
> have tried reformatting the drive and backup again. Each time Vist
> say
> backup successful. However same message
>
> Does anyone know how to work around this
>
> It should be noted that I have successfully done this before, using th
> sam
> drive and procedures. Now for some reason Vista does not see externa
> HD
> BIOS sees the drive when booting. I'm using eSATA connection

Just going through a similar problem. I can't seem to find any respons
to the above post. Can someone show me how to get the wizard t
recognise the complete PC backup on my external HDD

Best regards

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KNtow

"KNtow" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Buz Fuller;406078 Wrote:
>> Performed complete backup of C:/ drive to external HD. Vista message,
>> "Backup successful." Shut down computer. Restarted, booting from
>> installation DVD. Computer boots up. I select repair computer, then
>> complete
>> PC backup. I expected Vista to recognize and find the external HD which
>> contains backup file. I get message Vista can not find any backup
>> files. I
>> have tried reformatting the drive and backup again. Each time Vista
>> says
>> backup successful. However same message.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to work around this?
>>
>> It should be noted that I have successfully done this before, using the
>> same
>> drive and procedures. Now for some reason Vista does not see external
>> HD.
>> BIOS sees the drive when booting. I'm using eSATA connection.
>
> Just going through a similar problem. I can't seem to find any response
> to the above post. Can someone show me how to get the wizard to
> recognise the complete PC backup on my external HDD?
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> --
> KNtow


This will tell you how to restore a complete Vista backup..

http://biztechmagazine.com/article.asp?item_id=237


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Mike Hall - MVP

Mike's Window - My Blog..
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx

Thanks, Mike, for the excellent article. The challenge remains, though
I still get the message that "no valid backup locations were found
after each search by the complete PC backup recovery tool. Yet I ca
access the backup on the external HDD in Windows Explorer (and also th
copy I made to the internal HDD as well). Need help on this one. Bes
regards

--
KNtow

I can't ever get this Complete PC Backup to Recover my installation.
gave up

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chuckba

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KNtow wrote:
> Thanks, Mike, for the excellent article. The challenge remains, though.
> I still get the message that "no valid backup locations were found"
> after each search by the complete PC backup recovery tool. Yet I can
> access the backup on the external HDD in Windows Explorer (and also the
> copy I made to the internal HDD as well). Need help on this one. Best
> regards.
>
>

Did you make the boot medium to restore? I don't have the Vista
Ultimate, but Windows 7 restored itself fine. Stuck in the boot media
and allow it to restore. It does restore the same size partitions, so
if you have changed hard drive size, you might look into that.

Clark

Clark;985708 Wrote:
> KNtow wrote:> > >
> > > Thanks, Mike, for the excellent article. The challenge remains
> > though
> > > I still get the message that "no valid backup locations were found
> > > after each search by the complete PC backup recovery tool. Yet I ca
> > > access the backup on the external HDD in Windows Explorer (and als
> > th
> > > copy I made to the internal HDD as well). Need help on this one. Bes
> > > regards
> >
> > > > >
>
> Did you make the boot medium to restore? I don't have the Vist
> Ultimate, but Windows 7 restored itself fine. Stuck in the boot medi
> and allow it to restore. It does restore the same size partitions, s
> if you have changed hard drive size, you might look into that
>
> Clar

*I will not use the MS Complete PC Backup again.*

A few days ago, I decided to change my RAID 0 Strip from 64KB to 128KB
I made 5 back-ups on 3 different drives. All failed after I reset m
RAID. I received several different error messages. I worked on trying t
restore for over 12 hours. While reading all I could and trying som
tricks with Diskpart

The time before I attempted to use it, it also failed. I believe tha
was due to having my Pagefile on a different partition

Just search the net, many people have problems with this program. So
would not be to concerned about it is not backing-up. But, will the da
thing restore

It should not be that complicated. If it can't due something or can'
find something, it has the Setup CD, it should pass that up and move on
or revert to default

If your 80GB HD is to small and you buy a 1TB, it should work. At leas
when given the option to partition the disk as it wishes, to atleat
restore the original

I never loose data. I back that up separate on a regular basis. I wil
be looking for a more fail-safe back-up program. This one I don't trust
*The only Ultimate feature I ever used. I should have stayed with Hom
Premium.

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chuckba

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chuckbam <> wrote:


>*I will not use the MS Complete PC Backup again.*

Keep that thought.

I was going to get a new tower just so I can try ultimate for just th
reason to back up ( clone ) now I'll wait for windows

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pacinitaly

pacinitaly;986441 Wrote:
> I was going to get a new tower just so I can try ultimate for just th
> reason to back up ( clone ) now I'll wait for windows

I am looking at MaxBlast 5. It is a free program from Seagate that
think works if you have at least one Seagate or Maxtor drive

I need to read the full PDF. It is very large

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chuckba

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