Hi,

Didn't see your question before. The backup utility will only show drives
that have sufficient space available. From what I understand of TrueCrypt,
which is limited in scope, it expands dynamically as needed and does not
report free space. This would disqualify it by the Vista backup utility as a
valid destination.

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Hi,

The drive types allowed are a hardcoded part of the program, not a setting
in the registry you can tweak. I would suggest you look at an alternative
backup solution that is capable of doing what you want. Personally I've
never found any of the supplied backup utilities in Windows to be
satisfactory as they are fairly limited in scope and configurability, and
each successive version is never compatible with previous ones so you need
to maintain an installation of the original OS in order to recover data
saved by it. Thanks but no thanks, I'll pass on that.

Oh, and I did look at the image, not sure why you thought I didn't, but it
doesn't really add anything to your description.

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> first of all, tinypic is pretty well known, and i attached the same file
> if you don't trust tiny pic.
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> secondly, it is vista home premium.
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> finally, my truecrypt volume is 25GB large and completely empty, and
> like you said it can become larger dynamically...but there is already
> 25GB allocated...so i don't believe space is the issue here.
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> It is my understanding that there is an underlying principal as to how
> windows backup detects viable drives, since it explictly states that it
> will not use USB drives. I would like to circumvent this.
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> It is my understanding that there is an underlying principal as to how
> windows backup detects viable drives, since it explictly states that it
> will not use USB drives. I would like to circumvent this.
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> Thanks
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Wow, I learned something here. I've been using a USB external drive for
backups for 6 months. Where does it say I can't do that?

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You can put put normal backups on USB/Firewire connected external drives. I
have never been able to image the system to drives connected by such means. Gene K

Gene K wrote:
> You can put put normal backups on USB/Firewire connected external
> drives. I have never been able to image the system to drives connected
> by such means. Gene K
Hi Gene,
I'm not clear on this. Is this a Vista thing? On my prior machine (XP
Home) I used ghost 9 to image my drive to an external USB HD. In fact,
the same one I still use on my current Vista machine, although I am now
using MS Backup, so I don't currently image. I know that it functioned
properly, because I had to clone my machine once.

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