Thank you, Mike. I am like most people who use Windows: I don't know all
the parlance. I always "thought" that a total backup was a total backup
(hence the name). I don't know that the term "image" appeared in RC1's
backup options.
It had an option for "total backup", which saves everything including
programs,
and file backup--which does not save programs. I did the latter first,
then tried to save file folders of photos immediately afterwards. The
machine acted like it was writing to disk, but in the latter operation,
nothing was burned. No separate files could be saved by 5/29. Not even
saved to memory cards. Yet the timeout had no transpired. I only got a
-good complete totalbackup- set of disks from the machine.

Anyway, thanks for your lesson.

"Mike Hall - MVP" wrote:
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> And next time you are asked to back up data, do that.. creating an image is
> not the same as backing up data..
>
>
> "Lowered Expectations" <LoweredExpectations@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> in message news:59BCFE3E-C432-4F66-B246-8A6106036FC0@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> >
> >
> > Kudos! Thank you, Robert, for such positive and creative thinking.
> > Because I am a dummy (this is the first time for me to hear about VM), and
> > because my track record with even simple installations is not too good, I
> > probably should just bite the weenie they want me to eat, and pay for the
> > upgrade. That will be a moral defeat, sure, but it is promised by
> > "Anytime
> > Upgrade" to be super EZ and safe.
> >
> > Really though, if I buy the upgrade key for $199 from Amazon, that's a
> > 100kb
> > download, and there, it's done. Microsoft makes no mention of any
> > possibility of loss of the license key or possibility of failure.
> > Microsoft
> > leads me to want to believe that they never gloss or oversimplify
> > prospects,
> > in order, I guess to brighten their primrose path. Maybe I should trust
> > them
> > again, inasmuch as their gun is at my head.
> >
> > To be very sure, however =I only need to know now=, that IF I upgrade this
> > present "clean install" of Basic, to Ultimate,
> >
> > then can I for sure for sure for sure! regain my former files, programs,
> > settings of the RC1 installation?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > ____________________
> > Robert, I am a poet-type of comic fool. In appreciation for your aid and
> > positive thinking... Virtual Machine? Hard to believe, but I never heard
> > of
> > "VM" stuff before now. You fire my imagination. You get for a gift, what
> > used to be called an "ode".
> > And although humorous, the appreciation extended to you is genuine:
> >
> >
> > =Ode to Robert Moir=
> >
> > I would lay a laurel
> > at your VM feet
> > if I had a laurel
> > and United Parcel's fleet...
> >
> > ...if I even knew
> > what a laurel was,
> > and if I had some VM hands
> > instead of my mental fuzz.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Robert Moir" wrote:
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> >>
> >> "Lowered Expectations" <LoweredExpectations@discussions.microsoft.com>
> >> wrote
> >> in message news:FC6AB26E-9DAB-4CB1-977C-019B4DDD22D6@microsoft.com...
> >>
> >> > So I'm screwed. I paid for Vista. I can't have my data back unless I
> >> > get
> >> > (am told elswhere here) Ultimate or something near that.
> >> >
> >> > Phooey. If anyone has a solution short of suicide of the user, please
> >> > tell.
> >> > WHAT were they thinking????
> >>
> >> Set up a Virtual Machine (VMware ought to work, not sure about Virtual PC
> >> 2007 and Vista basic).
> >>
> >> Install a _trial_ version of Vista Ultimate in the virtual machine.
> >> Restore backup in virtual machine
> >> Transfer data to the real machine from the virtual machine.
> >> Make sure you've got everything then delete \ uninstall the virtual
> >> machine.
> >> Pour yourself a drink of whatever your favourate beverage is for a
> >> victory
> >> sip. You've earned it.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Robert Moir
> >> [url]http://www.rhymeswithgeek.com[/url]
> >>
> >>
> >>[/color][/color]
>
> --
>
>
> Mike Hall
> MS MVP Windows Shell/User
> [url]http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/[/url]
>
>
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