Restore problem

[rj]

Hope I'm in the right ng and someone can help! I did a backup using the
Backup and Restore wizard in Vista Home Premium. I backed up the C drive to
a logical drive on the same hard drive. But I can't restore it. It doesn't
list my backup folders even though I can see the zipped folders on the K
drive when I try to add the folder. It says
"backup set___ is not in the backup....". There were no error messages
during the backup...it said the backup was successful and indicates the
drive where the backup is (the K drive). So I'm puzzled as to why it does
not list the backup folder when I go to Restore it. It won't even let me
"add" the folder.

 

[John Hanley]

Hope I'm in the right ng and someone can help! I did a backup using the
Backup and Restore wizard in Vista Home Premium. I backed up the C drive
to
a logical drive on the same hard drive. But I can't restore it. It doesn't
list my backup folders even though I can see the zipped folders on the K
drive when I try to add the folder. It says
"backup set___ is not in the backup....". There were no error messages
during the backup...it said the backup was successful and indicates the
drive where the backup is (the K drive). So I'm puzzled as to why it does
not list the backup folder when I go to Restore it. It won't even let me
"add" the folder.

I don't think Vista will let you make a backup to the same physical drive as
your regular hard drive. This is to ensure you put the backup on separate,
independent media. I use an external USB hard drive.

 

[rj]

It did...as I said there was no problem with the backup. It's the restore
that I'm having a problem with.

 

[AJR]

As John stated - A Complete PCBackup must be made to an external, removeable
or separate internal drive - also Complete PC Backup does not make an image
of the disk/media to which it is being copied.

 

[rj]

It's good to get some confirmation. I looked at the help file, it says you
can't back up to the same disk and it gives an example like you cannot
backup drive D to the same disk. So the definition of disk isn't clear - is
it the physical disk or the logical drive that is being referenced? Also,
the help file says a "complete PC backup" is not available in Home Premium.
I must have done a "full" backup. Regardless, when I backed up, I already
chose drive K as the destination and on the next screen it lists all the
logical drives (C, D, F, G, H, I, J) that I can backup but it didn't include
drive K because that's where I'm backing up to. It also said I have more
than one "disk" and from that I infer that "disk" in this context refers to
logical drive and not physical drive, as all of the "disks" I have are
logical. I don't have a 2nd hard drive on my laptop. The help files and
screens are not clear on this issue. So further confirmation (and
clarification) would be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[RJ]

Well, I'll assume the MVP's and other "experts" don't have a solution. I'll
keep searching. Meanwhile I shall disagree with John and AJR because Vista
lets me backup the contents of drive C to another drive on the same physical
disk, I'm just not able to restore it. I do the same thing on my XP computer
which has only one physical disk and I don't have a problem restoring. So it
must be something with the configuration. I may reformat as a last resort.