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I have Vista Home Premium Edition installed in my system. Recently, due
to a problem with corrupted protected system files, I was forced to
conduct a clean re-install of the operating system.Before re-installing
Vista, I backed up my all data including softwares into an external hard
drive. After reinstallation I have attempted to restore the backup
files, unfortunately Vista does not recognize the backup source. When
turning on the external drive my system recognizes it, however when
navigating to Control Panel/Backup and Restore Center/Restore files from
backup/and then to Restore Files I receive a yellow yield icon with an
exclamation indicating that "There are no backups available on this
computer". Very odd. I cannot seem to restore my files from the
previous installation? I checked the external HDD to insure that the
files are stored, and they are there. Can anyone help me with this
problem please? Thank you in advance!
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omamoh
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:29:35 +0000, omamoh
<omamoh.3kp9k2[ at ]no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote:
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> I have Vista Home Premium Edition installed in my system. Recently, due
> to a problem with corrupted protected system files, I was forced to
"Forced"? Maybe, but it's hardly ever necessary, and is usually the
worst course of action.
> conduct a clean re-install of the operating system.Before re-installing
> Vista, I backed up my all data including softwares into an external hard
> drive. After reinstallation I have attempted to restore the backup
> files, unfortunately Vista does not recognize the backup source. When
> turning on the external drive my system recognizes it, however when
> navigating to Control Panel/Backup and Restore Center/Restore files from
> backup/and then to Restore Files I receive a yellow yield icon with an
> exclamation indicating that "There are no backups available on this
> computer". Very odd. I cannot seem to restore my files from the
> previous installation? I checked the external HDD to insure that the
> files are stored, and they are there. Can anyone help me with this
> problem please? Thank you in advance!
Two points:
1. How did you do the backup? Was the backup made with the built-in
Vista backup program? How did you "check the external HDD to insure
that the files are stored"?
2. Note that backup of your software is useless. Except for a very
occasional very small program, all programs have entries and
references within the registry and elsewhere in \windows.
They can't be run under Windows unless they were *installed* in that
copy of Windows. Except for backups which are images or clones of the
entire drive, only backups of data files are usable.
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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Ken Blake, MVP;1110838 Wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:29:35 +0000, omamoh
> <omamoh.3kp9k2[ at ]no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have Vista Home Premium Edition installed in my system. Recently,
> due
> > to a problem with corrupted protected system files, I was forced to
>
>
> "Forced"? Maybe, but it's hardly ever necessary, and is usually the
> worst course of action.
>
>
>
> > conduct a clean re-install of the operating system.Before
> re-installing
> > Vista, I backed up my all data including softwares into an external
> hard
> > drive. After reinstallation I have attempted to restore the backup
> > files, unfortunately Vista does not recognize the backup source. When
> > turning on the external drive my system recognizes it, however when
> > navigating to Control Panel/Backup and Restore Center/Restore files
> from
> > backup/and then to Restore Files I receive a yellow yield icon with
> an
> > exclamation indicating that "There are no backups available on this
> > computer". Very odd. I cannot seem to restore my files from the
> > previous installation? I checked the external HDD to insure that the
> > files are stored, and they are there. Can anyone help me with this
> > problem please? Thank you in advance!
>
>
> Two points:
>
> 1. How did you do the backup? Was the backup made with the built-in
> Vista backup program? How did you "check the external HDD to insure
> that the files are stored"?
>
> 2. Note that backup of your software is useless. Except for a very
> occasional very small program, all programs have entries and
> references within the registry and elsewhere in \windows.
> They can't be run under Windows unless they were *installed* in that
> copy of Windows. Except for backups which are images or clones of the
> entire drive, only backups of data files are usable.
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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::I made the backup with the built-in Vista backup program and I have
checked the external HDD and it shows two GB with lots of folders and
files. I don’t worry about programs but I need to restore some important
files. Is there any possible way I can retrieve those files. I look
forward your help. Thanks::
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omamoh
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