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LoEx,

Here is a cut & paste of a newer thread than this one. Someone else
having a problem with the backup utility....

I don't know if it will help, but here's another shot at just recovering
your data.

Regards,

DanS

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"Armin Heinlein" wrote:
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> I have a back up of my system and after an upgrade I wanted to restore[/color]
one[color=blue]
> particular drive. When I try to restore with the Windows Restore I[/color]
receive a[color=blue]
> message that no BackUp images were found. I have a directory on my USB[/color]
drive[color=blue]
> called WindowsImageBackUp and I can see the drive in one of the
> subdirectories.
>
> Any input is appreciated.
>
> TIA, Armin
>[/color]

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Hi Armin,

The backup and recovery functionality in Vista is at best poor. Unlike
the
old system, if you do a complete PC backup you cannot restore individual
files.... whats more , if you do a file backup, (where you can restore
individual files) it will not backup program files and other key data. I
have
fallen victim to this earlier this year. I do have a suggestion though,
which
helped me out of my problem. Download "winimage"
[url]http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm[/url] which will alow you to mount the
vmdk
file that Vista backup created, you can then restore files from this
image.
The download is a free 30 day trial. After that i would suggest a 3rd
part
backup program. I have tried a few, nova backup seems quite good,
although it
doesn't support other backup formats. Hope this is useful.

All the best.