restoring files from full Vista backup set

Before repartitioning my hard drive, I used Vista's Home Premium's
full PC backup option to save all my files to another drive. It
created a directory named after my machine, which contains a "Backup
Set (date)" directory that has a Catalogs and a Backup Files (date)
directory. The process completed just fine, so I went ahead with
repartitioning and reinstalled Vista.

Now, when I try to restore these files, Vista doesn't see them, and it
says I have no files to restore. I also tried sharing this folder so
that I could enter the path in the Network field, but that didn't work
either. I tried to manually copy the backed-up files, but it seems
that the backup application split up all files that were larger than a
certain size.

How can I restore these files? Thanks!

Have you tried the 'advanced restore' option in the Backup and Restore
Centre, possibly using the option of restoring a backup made on another
computer. By reinstalling Vista you have effectively created a new computer
with a new registry etc. it may work - best of luck. Better to have used a
volume imaging application such as Acronis true Image v10.

Rod Farmer


"John DeStefano" <john.destefano@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1174915734.355398.189180@b75g2000hsg.googlegr oups.com...
> Before repartitioning my hard drive, I used Vista's Home Premium's
> full PC backup option to save all my files to another drive. It
> created a directory named after my machine, which contains a "Backup
> Set (date)" directory that has a Catalogs and a Backup Files (date)
> directory. The process completed just fine, so I went ahead with
> repartitioning and reinstalled Vista.
>
> Now, when I try to restore these files, Vista doesn't see them, and it
> says I have no files to restore. I also tried sharing this folder so
> that I could enter the path in the Network field, but that didn't work
> either. I tried to manually copy the backed-up files, but it seems
> that the backup application split up all files that were larger than a
> certain size.
>
> How can I restore these files? Thanks!
>

Acronis 10 works great on my No. 2 computer i went back from Vista Ultimate
to XP within 10 minutes and no program


"Rodney Farmer" <rodney.farmer@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:8E5AD640-E5CB-4B9D-9E16-D1E4EAA96993@microsoft.com...
> Have you tried the 'advanced restore' option in the Backup and Restore
> Centre, possibly using the option of restoring a backup made on another
> computer. By reinstalling Vista you have effectively created a new
> computer with a new registry etc. it may work - best of luck. Better to
> have used a volume imaging application such as Acronis true Image v10.
>
> Rod Farmer
>
>
> "John DeStefano" <john.destefano@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1174915734.355398.189180@b75g2000hsg.googlegr oups.com...
>> Before repartitioning my hard drive, I used Vista's Home Premium's
>> full PC backup option to save all my files to another drive. It
>> created a directory named after my machine, which contains a "Backup
>> Set (date)" directory that has a Catalogs and a Backup Files (date)
>> directory. The process completed just fine, so I went ahead with
>> repartitioning and reinstalled Vista.
>>
>> Now, when I try to restore these files, Vista doesn't see them, and it
>> says I have no files to restore. I also tried sharing this folder so
>> that I could enter the path in the Network field, but that didn't work
>> either. I tried to manually copy the backed-up files, but it seems
>> that the backup application split up all files that were larger than a
>> certain size.
>>
>> How can I restore these files? Thanks!
>>
>