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Has anyone out there tried to do a complete backup using the Backup and
Restore Center in Vista Ultimate, and then replaced your hard drive and then
tried to do the "Complete PC Restore" from the Windows Vista DVD before the
PC boots up? When trying to do the complete PC restore, Vista Ultimate tells
me it can't restore my PC because "there are too few drives or the drive size
has changed". It won't attempt to restore my files because...I replaced my
hard drive with a larger drive? What's up with that? I didn't have a disk
crash, but I did change the number of drives. However, my "complete backup"
was taken from 1 physical disk drive with 2 partitions and stored to another
disk drive with 1 partition. Let's assume my C: drive failed and I had to go
to the store to buy a new one. Guess what...the size of my failed C: drive
is no longer sold as a new unit, but a larger one is. So I buy it and expect
to restore all my files from my last full backup. When I try, I get this
silly message telling me my hard drive size has changed and therefore, my
restore won't work. If this is really the way Microsoft designed this
backup/restore program, there's a serious flaw with someone's way of
thinking. I've been working on this problem with the Microsoft tech support
guys for a couple of days and we haven't made any progress so far. Maybe
tomorrow they'll figure something out to recover my data from my backup.
Restore Center in Vista Ultimate, and then replaced your hard drive and then
tried to do the "Complete PC Restore" from the Windows Vista DVD before the
PC boots up? When trying to do the complete PC restore, Vista Ultimate tells
me it can't restore my PC because "there are too few drives or the drive size
has changed". It won't attempt to restore my files because...I replaced my
hard drive with a larger drive? What's up with that? I didn't have a disk
crash, but I did change the number of drives. However, my "complete backup"
was taken from 1 physical disk drive with 2 partitions and stored to another
disk drive with 1 partition. Let's assume my C: drive failed and I had to go
to the store to buy a new one. Guess what...the size of my failed C: drive
is no longer sold as a new unit, but a larger one is. So I buy it and expect
to restore all my files from my last full backup. When I try, I get this
silly message telling me my hard drive size has changed and therefore, my
restore won't work. If this is really the way Microsoft designed this
backup/restore program, there's a serious flaw with someone's way of
thinking. I've been working on this problem with the Microsoft tech support
guys for a couple of days and we haven't made any progress so far. Maybe
tomorrow they'll figure something out to recover my data from my backup.