Windows BackUp Cannot Restore

[Armin Heinlein]

I have a back up of my system and after an upgrade I wanted to restore one
particular drive. When I try to restore with the Windows Restore I receive a
message that no BackUp images were found. I have a directory on my USB drive
called WindowsImageBackUp and I can see the drive in one of the
subdirectories.

Any input is appreciated.

TIA, Armin

 

[Guest]

Hi Armin,

The backup and recovery functionality in Vista is at best poor. Unlike the
old system, if you do a complete PC backup you cannot restore individual
files.... whats more , if you do a file backup, (where you can restore
individual files) it will not backup program files and other key data. I have
fallen victim to this earlier this year. I do have a suggestion though, which
helped me out of my problem. Download "winimage"
http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm which will alow you to mount the vmdk
file that Vista backup created, you can then restore files from this image.
The download is a free 30 day trial. After that i would suggest a 3rd part
backup program. I have tried a few, nova backup seems quite good, although it
doesn't support other backup formats. Hope this is useful.

All the best.

 

[Armin Heinlein]

Hi Ben,

Thank you for this great tip. Your suggestion was a great help. It worked
and I reinstalled my dedicated data drive with WinImage. I normally use
TrueImage, but that back up was one month old, from now on I will use
TrueImage exclusively.

Thank you, Armin