Lang Murphy

You use the Vista install DVD to boot your laptop, then select
repair/restore. Do a search in Windows help on "complete pc backup" and take
a look at the entry "Back up your programs, system settings, and files"

You can back up to a separate partition. Don't know how that would play with
copying off to network and burning on another computer with DVD burner. I
have to assume that if the Complete PC Backup / Restore gets pointed at a
DVD writer as the location to create the backup and the backup is larger
than a single DVD, the backup program manages the process of splitting the
data onto multiple DVD's and restoring it at a later date. If your backup is
larger than a DVD and you back it up to your other partition, then I don't
know if you'll be able to copy it to multiple DVD's later. Does that make
sense?

Lang

"BobAnd" <boband134---AT---yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm unclear how this is supposed to work. Are you supposed to be able to
> boot to some type of DOS/Linux boot disk and restore the system? If so,
> where's the utility I need to place on my bootable CD to enable this
> process to work?
>
> Just in case I get a response that says to use the backup to DVD option,
> that is not an option for me because my Vista laptop is not equipped with
> a DVD burner. I must instead save the backup to a 2nd NTFS partition,
> copy it to the network and burn a DVD from another workstation.
>
> In this case, how can I effectively restore the system in the event that
> my laptop HDD crashes?
>
>