Have you tried the 'advanced restore' option in the Backup and Restore
Centre, possibly using the option of restoring a backup made on another
computer. By reinstalling Vista you have effectively created a new computer
with a new registry etc. it may work - best of luck. Better to have used a
volume imaging application such as Acronis true Image v10.

Rod Farmer


"John DeStefano" <john.destefano******.com> wrote in message
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> Before repartitioning my hard drive, I used Vista's Home Premium's
> full PC backup option to save all my files to another drive. It
> created a directory named after my machine, which contains a "Backup
> Set (date)" directory that has a Catalogs and a Backup Files (date)
> directory. The process completed just fine, so I went ahead with
> repartitioning and reinstalled Vista.
>
> Now, when I try to restore these files, Vista doesn't see them, and it
> says I have no files to restore. I also tried sharing this folder so
> that I could enter the path in the Network field, but that didn't work
> either. I tried to manually copy the backed-up files, but it seems
> that the backup application split up all files that were larger than a
> certain size.
>
> How can I restore these files? Thanks!
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