I am a tech and need to have access to both XP and Vista. Quite often I need
to reload one of my PCs that were used as a test bed.

When I create Dual boot configurations using XP-PRO SP3 and VISTA ULTIMATE
SP1 everything works fine until I sometimes try to restore a Vista complete
PC backup from an external drive.

The backups are created using Vista Complete PC Backup from within Vista.

In the beginning the restore works fine but after half a dozen or so
restores, Vista can no longer locate a viable restore image on the drives.
It is as though the restore points are lost.

This happens on Dell and IBM systems and I am using various brand external
drives.

Can anyone collaborate or shed some insite as to why this may be occuring?

Thx

Ben