"BackupMan" <BackupMan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:22E0652F-F90B-418D-87C3-EAB578343448@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Try to make a long story short. 6 year old laptop running XP SP2 finally
> bit
> the dust. Have laptop backup on network drive (1 large .qic file) using
> "Backup my PC" version 5. Need new laptop. All come with Vista. "Backup my
> PC" doesn't have Vista version yet. Is there anything out there that will
> take the qic file from my network drive and restore to a new Vista laptop?[/color]


If you cannot install the software you have on your Vista machine...
aska friend of yours who still uses XP if you can temporarily install it on
their machine...
restore the backup to a folder...then burn to DVD etc