Quote: Originally Posted by
John32118 
well, system restore works from safe mode. I also found that several services for backup/system restore were turned off.
If you are running Vista 32 bit prior to SP1 I found I had to do a lot of services tweaking to avoid it hogging the hd. Stuff like shadow copy service though, you should at least have on Manual so that backup and imaging programs can start the service. Also a neat thing on Home Premium is you can use Shadow Copy Explorer(it's in the list of Vista freeware) to get shadow copies of files from the system restore set. It works almost like an undelete program. A cool thing to have if you accidentally delete a file or want to get back an old version.