Complete PC Restore

[Guest]

Installed Vista Business..

Did a Complete PC Backup.. to my Data Drive..

Question: Should the system hard drive crash, and has to be replaced with a
new Hard Drive.... How do you Restore the Complete PC Backup to the new
system hard drive..

I cannot find any info on this.. any help out there?

 

[Robert Firth]

If the hard drive goes bad, you probably will not be able to get anything
off the drive. You should probably backup to dvd or the like.

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[Guest]

My backup is to a separate hard drive (Data drive).....

 

[Jimmy Brush]

Hello,

If you have a retail Windows DVD, you can boot from it and then select
repair your computer. Complete PC Restore will be one of your options.

If your computer came preinstalled with Vista, you should be able to press
F8 as your computer starts and choose Repair your Computer from the Advanced
Boot Options menu.

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[Guest]

I have tried that and the process tells me that there is no hard drive or the
hard drive is too small...... and the process fails..... I know 160 gig
drive is plenty....

I have submitted a support e-mail to Microsoft, so, short of any answers
here, hopefully they will provide the solution...... I have researched this
issue extensively, and have found no info to resolve this issue......

 

[Jill Zoeller [MSFT]]

Can you describe the problem you're having? Maybe support will get back to
you, but I can take a look at this as well.

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[Guest]

Thanks, I will try to explain it in detail:

After installing Vista Business on a Sata 160 gig (clean install), I did a
Complete PC Backup to a second hard drive (100 gig PATA drive). All went
great, and the backup saved to the second hard drive....

I then removed the Sata System Drive, and replaced it with another Sata 160
gig hard drive. I then booted from the Vista Business DVD and attempted to
use the Repair (restore Complete PC Backup) feature on the DVD...

The only hard drive that it recognized was the 100 gig PATA drive, and tells
me that the hard drive is not found or is too small and process fails....

I have done a little more searching and thinking about what has occured, and
I have an idea of what is happening... I will throw it at you for you
thoughts...

Let me regress a little..... when I first tried to install Vista, I had the
SATA 160 gig drive and the second hard drive (100 gig PATA) in my computer...
the install went fine, but when I removed the Vista DVD and rebooted the
system would not boot unless the Vista DVD was in the DVD drive.....

I then disconnected the second hard drive and reinstalled Vista Business
with only the SATA drive installed... (important to note that no SATA driver
was needed to install Vista, so the SATA drive was recognized by the
installation process). All worked great at this point, so I then
re-connected the second hard drive and it was recognized and all was well...
It then booted great, with not one issue.

With all that said, I suspect that when I try to restore the Complete PC
Backup, the Sata drive is not being recognized, maybe because the process may
not furnish the SATA driver as it does with a clean install???????

I have searched high an low for a Vista driver for my ASUS motherboard, and
have had no luck.....

I think the solution may be "loading a driver" during the repair process
(there is a point that this can be done), but minus a driver to use, I am at
a loss to try it...
Unless the driver that was furnished on the Vista Business DVD could be
copied to a CD ( I have no idea where it is located or the name of it on the
Vista DVD ).

With all that said I hope this is enought info to assist you in your
thoughts...

Thanks and I await your word of wisdom.....

 

[Guest]

UPDATE: Did a complete pc backup to an external PATA drive via USB, then
disconnected second internal drive (PATA), restored backup from external
drive without a hitch, no SATA drivers needed......

 

[Guest]

UPDATE: Did a complete pc backup to an external PATA drive via USB, then
disconnected second internal drive (PATA), restored backup from external
drive without a hitch, no SATA drivers needed......

 

[Rock]

Hey, new to this group. Just upgrade to a bigger drive. Have a Vista
backup on a USB drive.
Needing info on how to restore to the new drive...Originally bought my
laptop with XP,
upgraded to Vista. The only CD I have is the Vista Upgrade CD. Will it
give me the option to do a "restore"??

By Vista backup do you mean an image created by Complete PC Backup? If so
then yes, boot from the Vista DVD. Extracted in part from Vista's Help and
Support of restoring from an Image backup

Insert the installation disc, and then restart your computer

If your computer is not configured to start from a CD or DVD, see Start
Windows from a CD or DVD for instructions about how to do this.

Press any key when prompted to do so.

Choose your language settings, and then click Next.

Click Repair your computer.

Select the operating system you want to repair, and then click Next.

Note
If you are restoring a 64-bit system using a 32-bit Complete PC backup or a
32-bit system using a 64-bit Complete PC backup and have more than one
operating system installed, you should not select an operating system. If an
operating system is selected by default, clear the selection by clicking a
blank area of the window, and then click Next.

On the System Recovery Options menu, click Windows Complete PC Restore, and
then follow the instructions.

Note
Insert the last CD or DVD of the backup set when prompted to do so.

FYI, next time, don't post your new question as a reply to another thread.
Create a new thread with your issue.