system back-up...easy to restore?

f_vo · Jan 23, 2008

Hi,

i had to reinstall Vista and to avoid this in the future i am considering an extern harddrive via the USB port to make a full back-up of everything on the computer.

How to restore it if Vista is no longer available? When you are no longer in control of the system...

Does one alter the bios so the USB port will be looked at first?
And if so can one restore every byte from the extern hard drive to the original drives.

Furthermore Windows claims that the restore can be put on other computers. I find this hard to believe when the other computer has not the same hardware setup....

Anyone who already did the restore to its original position?

Thanks

François

Brink · Jan 23, 2008

Hi François,

If you have the Vista Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise versions, you can use the Vista installation DVD and the Complete Computer Backup/Restore feature in Vista to do this. You just need to make sure that the USB drive is plugged in when you boot from the Vista DVD. This will show you how.

RESTORE:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/99718-restore-complete-computer.html

BACKUP:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/99709-backup-complete-computer.html

Shawn

f_vo · Jan 23, 2008

thanks alot Shawn, yes Ultimate.

as usual one can count on you.

François

Brink · Jan 23, 2008

Your welcome François.

f_vo · Jan 28, 2008

hi Shawn,

well the backup went smooth and fast. Unfortunately one can only backup-restore OR the full pc OR the OS and eventually some other drives or partitions. But the OS always gets restored.

I prefer to backup the OS once a week, but the data every night. In order to avoid backing up things i do not need backing up every day i am looking for an alternative.

Is there in some way a possibility to backup only data as is possible in Windows 2000 Pro.

Thanks

François

Brink · Jan 28, 2008

François,

You can backup file types in Vista with an optional automatic backup for when you set it to.

Backup:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/100133-backup-files.html

Restore:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/100253-restore-backup-files.html

The only way to backup individual files and folders is to manually copy them to the backup location, or use a 3rd party backup program.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

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