Why trust MicroSquish with your data? Especially using their backup
solutions. USB removable devices are so cheap, CDRW and DVDRW are extremly
cheap also. I develop software for a living and I copy my data to backup
devices. I user Nero to burn my data to DVD and don't rely on the OS.
Heck, even dragging a folder to a removable USB device is easy.

Suppose you didn't have problems with the OS but while working on your
computer, your hard drive just died. Shouldn't you have a backup of your
data? It's not IF your drive will die, it's WHEN.

I am suprised when people say that it's the OS's fault. IT isn't. If you
have documents, pictures, work, or whatever you want saved, make sure to
back it up. Then make sure you can restore it.

A lesson learned the hard way.


"Lowered Expectations" <LoweredExpectations@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message news:FC6AB26E-9DAB-4CB1-977C-019B4DDD22D6@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Pardon, please this rant. First: thanks to the gents here who have
> already
> answered my earlier questions.
>
> The results of the answers are not encouraging me to calm down.
> Oh well.
>
> --The Problem: I (and how many others?) was on the Vista beta and RC1/2
> program.
>
> Near the end of the trial period I looked into purchase options.
> Microsoft told me/us here:
> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/preview.mspx[/url]
> and elsewhere, that all that we need do was MAKE the backup while RC1 was
> still viable (I did that), and then buy and install one's own preferred
> Vista.
>
> ALL I was told to do was make a total back up, choose and buy a Vista
> version.
> I opted for Home Basic.
>
> I cannot put my old settings, files or folders into the new OS. Period.
>
> This is wrong of Microsoft. You have locked me out from my data.
> Microsoft told us to make backup before installing the clean, paid-for
> Vista.
> They NEVER told me that my backup would be completely useless.
> And furthermore, even though I'd now just like to get back to XP (which is
> not so evil as this Vista-Thing), I cannot put my RC1 backup of data into
> an
> XP install.
>
> 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????
>
> A user, typical, not savvy, reads and believes the public information of
> the
> link above.
> The link DOES not tell the user that they can't save their old data to the
> new OS via disk. It only speaks of "Easy Transfer" between two
> computers.
>
> I don't have two computers, anyway. I don't even have the one computer
> that I had before the RC1 timeout. I have nothing. I've lost all my
> data---until, it seems, I knuckle under and pay for Ultimate (or will Home
> Premium do the "trick").
>
> A rant ends. I'm spent. Please help me? There must be thousands of
> others
> like me today, tearing their hair in regret at ever, ever leaving XP.
>
> I have been a Windows user since 1995. You'd think I'd have learned
> something about it by now. Finally I have learned. Very sorry here.
>
>
>
> That's a boondoggle lie of gargantuan proportions.
> Microsoft has ruined me by locking me out of my own computer.
>
> This deserves a new thread. It is such an literally incredible bit of
> nonsense;
> ANYONE going from any of the trialware Vista to paid-version Vista would
> naturally expect to be able to move their data over to the new OS via
> disks.
>
> I can't believe this.
>
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