Thread: Image backup
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Old 07-03-2007   #3 (permalink)
JoRene


 
 

Re: Image backup

I didn't think Vista allowed backups to internal hard drives. The problem
you're having might be the reason why. Could you backup to an external hard
drive...or DVD drive? If you have a drive failure, it wouln't help to have
your backup on the drive.


"Creb" <Creb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:572C5675-4B6D-47AB-8EA1-017D0B501B1B@microsoft.com...
> Hi All.
>
> I hate it when I am stupid.... but I have this problem:
>
> I am trying to do a complete PC backup (image backup) with Vista. I have 3
> drives C, D, E (dvd) and F. I have done all my backups to drive F before,
> but
> now Vista wants to include drive F in the backup set, so I have to pick D
> as
> the destination.
>
> Thing is, I want to store the backup on F and somehow Vista thinks that
> there are system files on F that it needs to include in the backup. Is
> there
> any way I can find out which system files there could be on F? Just
> looking
> at the files on the drive and none of them looks like a system file and
> like
> I said, I have done backups to it just 2 months ago.
>
>
> Any help will be appreciated, thanks!
>
>
> Creb
>


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