I have to agree with Paul.
I'm in the process right at this moment of the restore part from my
"Complete PC backup/restore". I have to admit that the whole process didn't
go near as easy as i was foolishly kidding myself it would be. I backed up my
image file onto a seperate harddrive since I had 518GB's of an Image file.

I almost screwed up a couple times. If using a Hard drive for the image
file, be careful that you have the drives you are restoring and the drive the
backupfile is on in correct order when you go into the restore process.
Booting your machine from the DVD will make your drives after C: out of order
because the DVD rom drive is put at the end of the drive list instead of
following right after your C: drive in the drive order. This makes your E:
turn into D: and your F: turn into E:. This almost fatally screwed me up
since it was my C drive and E that was backed up, and my backup file was on
F: well when I booted from DVD my F: was now E and that was one of the drives
to be restored. it would have been formated when i started.

Just a little warning, pay attenting to which drives are which when using
it. After i got all the wrinkles ironed out, it's going fine.

Scot


"Paul Smith" wrote:
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> "GRITSandSLUTS" <gritsandsluts@discussions.microsoft.com.> wrote in message
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> > But WHY should you HAVE to 'buy' additional programs because Microsoft
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> Personally I think for a complete image of a computer, using optical media
> is a big mistake - it simply isn't reliable enough, even if it is written
> perfect in the first place, which many discs and burners are unable to do at
> higher speeds, the chemicals in the discs can and do break down with time.
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> Use a separate hard disk, network share or Windows Home Server.
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> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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