Thanks for the feedback. I'm replying back in case anyone else encounters
the same problem.

I checked with the manufacturer of my external HD (Seagate) and turns out
that they don't provide an driver for that use. So, I've had to go to plan
B, which is to copy the image over to an internal drive (my image is 170GB;
so they can be rather large).

Guess the "Lessons Learned" here is NOT to backup an image to an external
drive, particularily if there's not a driver available that can be loaded by
the Vista DVD repair process. Hindsight's a wonderful thing, isn't it?

Thanks again.

"Jerry Grabill" wrote:
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> When you reboot your system, you have an opportunity to install drivers
> and other things. watch the screen immediately on rebooting. This may help
> you
> --
> "Paputxi" <Paputxi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B5586D10-8F37-4141-9FD6-2FCC2C4328F4@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> >I created a backup image to an external HD using Vista's backup program.
> >My
> > system crashed so I am trying to restore my system to a new HD. However,
> > when I select to do a complete PC restore after booting from my Vista DVD,
> > Vista does not find my image. It is unclear if it doesn't see my external
> > drive or if it just can't search the external drive for the image, which
> > is
> > in a folder that I named. Any suggestions on how I can get my Vista DVD
> > to
> > allow me to select where the image is? Or, how can I determine that it
> > does
> > indeed see the external HD, which other applications like Acronis and Copy
> > Commander do see it when I boot from their CDs?[/color]
>
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