Hi DJ,

See if this can help you out........
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial145.html

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All the best,
SG

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"Daniel Jacobs" <DanielJacobs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EB64AE27-D49A-4B22-807E-CEB235442B90@microsoft.com...
>I have taken a backup image and am doing regular file backups. These are
> stored on an external hard disk. All I want is to find a reference that
> tells
> me the steps to follow after the loss of my internal hard drive? i.e. How
> do
> I tell vista to restore from the PC image? Do I then restore from the
> latest
> back file? Is this all I need to do? etc.
>
> I have searched windows help with no luck.