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Old 10-09-2007   #2 (permalink)
Richard Urban


 
 

Re: Restoring a backup from a external drive

Are you trying to use a screen saver supplied by the operating system or
some other?

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Richard Urban
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"GlenH" <GlenH@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

>I need help. When I bought my computer, it had XP loaded since vista had
>not
> been released. While using XP, my screen saver would not work. When i
> received my free copy of vista, i upgraded over XP instead of a clean
> install. Still, my screen saver did not work. Tech support suggested I do
> a
> clean install, so I backed up everything to a external drive. Now, after
> reloading Vista, I can no longer access the backup files. the restore
> program
> sees the external drive, but not the files. Oh, and by the way, my screen
> saver still won't work!
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> Glen
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