I put in the recovery disk, went into DOS, found the backup zip files and
copied them to my USB drive.

"Gordon" wrote:

> "Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:117CC243-1DA3-449D-A35D-F71B97B191E6@microsoft.com...
> > It's a 15 gig partition. However, once I reinstalled Vista it completely
> > reformatted the harddrive, partition and all. When I reinstalled Vista it
> > automatically created another 15 gig partition where my new backups are
> > being
> > placed.
> >
>
> So how did you manage to extract the backed-up files "using DOS"?
>
>