Restoring From Backup Wizard

[Guest]

Help please!
I run XP Home with IE7. Have just restored XP including SP2 and IE7. I
have a backup of Desktop, Favorites, My Docs etc held on floppy discs and am
trying to restore settings back to the original locations - Desktop, IE home
page etc.

Problem is that despite using the advanced settings part of the wizard, I
can't get the files to their original locations. They transfer fine to the C
drive but only as far as Documents and Settings where they just sit in a
folder. Would be very grateful please for some specific instructions as to
how to restore them to the proper/original locations. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Hi Simon,

I can't solve your problem because I am experiencing a similar one.

My old but completely updated version of XP Home got very flaky with
numerous error messages and crashes. When I could no longer get my
anti-virus to work, I decided I had to start over.

Using the XP backup utility, I did a complete backup. I got the system back
up and running and then I tried to restore My Documents. The first time, the
restore just stopped. The second time it seemed to work with no error
messages but I cannot access my files. I get an error message saying the
folder is not accessible and access is denied. I suspect that the paths have
gotten screwed up.

I tried to do an incremental restore and got a huge list of skipped files.
I still can't access any of them.

I think the message here is - don't use the Microsoft backup utility. But
since I did I would appreciate some help. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Hi Don

I did manage to solve this manually in the end. I realised that when I had
re-installed XP I had given my PC a slightly different name than it had
before. Of course this stopped everything being reinstalled in its old
location because the path was no longer the same. I therefore dragged
everything over manually to the equivalent location in the new set-up and
managed to get most things back.

Good Luck.