Foghorn
New Member
This might be covered somewhere. I looked, but honestly, I'm not sure what the search term would be.
I've got a Vista laptop that was backed up with an on-line service (Carbonite). The hard drive failed and has been replaced. I did a restoration to factory settings and installed Microsoft Office, Mozilla, and Thunderbird the primary apps on the laptop.
Then I started a full restore. Primarily, the backup data includes everything in the c:\Users folders. It doesn't do Program Files unless you specify it. In this case, the backup is all the user files.
So, when I did the rebuild, I created a generic admin account. When I restored files, it restored the user files from the backup. So the drive looked like this:
C:\Users\Original UserName
C:\Users\GenericUserName
Then, I created a new admin account with the original user name and logged onto that account.
As you might guess, Vista created a NEW user folder C:\Users\Original UserName.PCName (just like a domain, local user account)
So, how am I supposed to logon to the original UserName account? How do I assign all the files under C:\Users\Original UserName to the user with the same name?
Once done, can I delete the other accounts and user folders?
While it's nice to get the data back, one of the major reasons for the backup is to recover all of the program settings/data like e-mail configs and such.
I've learned that logic has nothing to do with Vista, but my logic would say, finish restoring all the files and then somehow assign the restored User files to the Original UserName account and end up back where we were before the crash.
Am I asking too much from a backup?
Thanks,
Fog
I've got a Vista laptop that was backed up with an on-line service (Carbonite). The hard drive failed and has been replaced. I did a restoration to factory settings and installed Microsoft Office, Mozilla, and Thunderbird the primary apps on the laptop.
Then I started a full restore. Primarily, the backup data includes everything in the c:\Users folders. It doesn't do Program Files unless you specify it. In this case, the backup is all the user files.
So, when I did the rebuild, I created a generic admin account. When I restored files, it restored the user files from the backup. So the drive looked like this:
C:\Users\Original UserName
C:\Users\GenericUserName
Then, I created a new admin account with the original user name and logged onto that account.
As you might guess, Vista created a NEW user folder C:\Users\Original UserName.PCName (just like a domain, local user account)
So, how am I supposed to logon to the original UserName account? How do I assign all the files under C:\Users\Original UserName to the user with the same name?
Once done, can I delete the other accounts and user folders?
While it's nice to get the data back, one of the major reasons for the backup is to recover all of the program settings/data like e-mail configs and such.
I've learned that logic has nothing to do with Vista, but my logic would say, finish restoring all the files and then somehow assign the restored User files to the Original UserName account and end up back where we were before the crash.
Am I asking too much from a backup?
Thanks,
Fog