Sorry for your problems but one of the warnings (and it was posted
prominently on the Vista beta download pages) is that if you can't afford to
possibly lose everything, you should not experiment with beta's.

This has been common sense knowledge - and published knowledge - since
"forever".

You made the choice to experiment with Vista Ultimate beta. YOU are the one
who decided to take the chance. I did also, for about 2 years now. Because I
was prepared, I lost nothing. You just were not prepared to play around with
beta's. Lessen learned!

Again, sorry you were stung - but you were warned on the beta download
pages.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Lowered Expectations" <LoweredExpectations@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message news:D86F83A0-E318-4563-985A-EB571B6405EA@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>
> cross posting to a minimal extent, by incident and accident, sorry.
> Traveler, the word that Ultimate is required in order to make use of the
> RC
> totalbackup, came via Paul at the Installation panel. He told me to
> refer
> to line number two of the linked MS document. I did, and it clearly says
> that total backup is available (only?) in Ultimate.
>
> I did not ask for trialware Ultimate. That's what they sent us all.
> If force feeding is not evident here, then the point is lost.
> I only want my data back. If I have to pay now yet another premium price
> to
> "upgrade" to an OS version I don't want, just to retreive my data, well,
> then that's what I'll have to to do.
>
> By misinformation and confusion---which can hardly be any 'accident', MS
> is
> making money hand-over-my-ass. And everybody else's too! True?
>
>
>
> "The Traveler" wrote:
>[color=green]
>> On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 17:16:00 -0700, Lowered Expectations
>> <LoweredExpectations@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>> > "Anytime Upgrade" is what I'll eat if held hostage in this way.
>> >
>> >I do not think this is right at all in any form, by any stretch of any
>> >imagination.
>> >
>> >Thank you for responding here.[/color]
>>
>> You must be cross posting... in any event, I do NOT believe that you
>> need to buy Ultimate. All you need is either Premium, Business or
>> Ultimate. As you realized, it doesn't work in "basic".
>>
>> In any event, you were beta testing RC1 (Ultimate), so it does make
>> sense that the equivalent "gold" version is also Ultimate ;-)
>>
>> ______________________
>>
>> The Traveller
>> Oceanside, California
>>[/color][/color]