Recovery

[Johns]

Sometime ago I had laptop problem which the seller eventually resolved by
replacing the XP laptop with a new VISTA one.

Part of the deal was that they would extract my files from the old machine
and give them to be on a seperate external USB drive for transferance onto
the new machine. At long last the new drive, with the files has arrived,
however the files on the new drive are in a recovery partition.

If I try and run recover with the external disk will it try and reset the
machine to the old XP OP configuration and damage the VISTA installation and
lose current files ?

Is it possible to 'open' the recovery directory to extract the required
files ?

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Have you asked the reseller how to use the 'recovery' partition? They would
know best as they know how they created it..

Sometime ago I had laptop problem which the seller eventually resolved by
replacing the XP laptop with a new VISTA one.

Part of the deal was that they would extract my files from the old machine
and give them to be on a seperate external USB drive for transferance onto
the new machine. At long last the new drive, with the files has arrived,
however the files on the new drive are in a recovery partition.

If I try and run recover with the external disk will it try and reset the
machine to the old XP OP configuration and damage the VISTA installation
and lose current files ?

Is it possible to 'open' the recovery directory to extract the required
files ?

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

 

[John Eastwell]

Unfortunately if you knew the problem I had getting the drive from them you
wouldn't even consider asking them how it was done.

It looks as though the recovery was done by creating a restore point on the
old machine and sending the result to the USB disc.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

If they used an XP compatible backup utility, you will have to use the same
utility to recover your files and do it on an XP machine.. they have done
you no favor at all..

Good luck

Unfortunately if you knew the problem I had getting the drive from them
you wouldn't even consider asking them how it was done.

It looks as though the recovery was done by creating a restore point on
the old machine and sending the result to the USB disc.

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

 

[Johns]

The problems just cascade, because although the VISTA machine sees the drive
and the recovery file my XP doesn't recognize the USB disk because it is a
SATA drive, it just finds it and says no problem and it is OK but it
appears blank.