I recently had to restore my computer from the image stored on my USB drive.
I ran the restore program from the bootable Vista Ultimate DVD, and it worked
quickly and perfectly.
"RichG" wrote:
> I am currently using an external 500Gb USB-connected disk to store Complete
> PC Backups (VHD files).
>
> I was just browsing the news group and saw the following posting...
>
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> Hi David,
>
> Vista won't recognize a USB drive until the OS is fully loaded, it has (to
> my knowledge) no provisions for loading from or to one during any point of
> setup other than grabbing a driver for a RAID configuration or SATA drive.
> Which, non coincidentally, may be the issue with the SATA drive. It may
> require a manufacturer's driver to access it fully.
>
> You mentioned you created these as network shares, were they attached
> locally and mounted as such? or were they attached elsewhere on the network
> and mapped?
>
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> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
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>
> Rick's reply seems to indicate that a complete PC restore is not possible
> from a USB-connected hard disk. If true, then my current backup strategy is
> essentially useless (from a complete PC restore standpoint).
>
> Can anyone confirm - is it true that a Complete PC Restore is not possible
> from a USB-connected external disk?
>
> --
> RichG