How do you restore a Vista Business backup on a Vista Home PC

[Russ]

I had a "work" laptop running Vista Business, from an upgrade disc, as XP had
originally been installed. In line with good practice, I ran regular backups
onto an external drive, from the MS software facility provided.
So, following a recent crash, I bought a new laptop, and accepted it with
Vista Home Premium. I tried to restore the back-up and even using the
advanced restore, it could not see the backup.
Having look on the Microsoft site, its nots very clear, but the help
suggests that Vista Business runs a backup "image" thats not compatible with
Vista Home.
IS THAT FOR REAL ??
Does anyone know a way around this without lining Microsofts pockets with a
upgrade to Business that I dont want ?
Rgds Russ.

 

[Mick Murphy]

The backup image that you did has all the drivers for the hardware and info
about a DIFFERENT computer to what you now have!
Have a long, hard think about that!

 

[AJR]

In addition to Mick' reply - Vista Home does not include the Cpmplete PC
Backup utility.

 

[Russ]

I can see Mick's point, but if the image saved is only any good on the
original PC, what if the HDD crashes, and say for instance, you replace with
a bigger HDD (then the computer has changed).
In fairness, I thought I was backing up all the data files (as MS backup
always used to do), and not a complete image, but evidently not.
The bottom line is that is there any way I can retrieve data files from this
backup, (onto another PC) without waiting for the faulty PC to be repaired.
Rgds Russ.

 

[AJR]

Consider one of the "free" recovery disks - which 99% are Linux
distributions. Google "knoppix" for a bootable CD which runs Linux and does
not require installation on the HD.
Recover is brought about since Linux will access FAT and NTFS files.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I had a "work" laptop running Vista Business, from an upgrade disc, as XP had
originally been installed. In line with good practice, I ran regular backups
onto an external drive, from the MS software facility provided.
So, following a recent crash, I bought a new laptop, and accepted it with
Vista Home Premium. I tried to restore the back-up and even using the
advanced restore, it could not see the backup.

Correct. It's a different OS. Why would you have expected it to
behave like something it wasn't?

Having look on the Microsoft site, its nots very clear, but the help
suggests that Vista Business runs a backup "image" thats not compatible with
Vista Home.
IS THAT FOR REAL ??

Yes, certainly.

Does anyone know a way around this without lining Microsofts pockets with a
upgrade to Business that I dont want ?

Simply don't try restoring a business OS to a Home computer. Doh.



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