Can you open what you have copied to your desktop?
If you can, just copy and paste into your account documents from the desktop.
"NM" wrote:
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> Before sending off a Vista Home Premium for warranty repair, I did a Vista
> backup of all the user files. I don't really remember the settings I uses,
> except that it included all the user data, photos, docs, etc. I think I
> excluded music files or the specific music directory. So I've got a 4GB
> backup set in a network folder.
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> Now its been factory reimaged and so doesn't have any data on it. I copied
> the backup folder to the desktop from the network location.
>
> Now I need to run the restore, but the restore wizard won't let me select
> the backup set. If I try to point it to the local desktop copy it won't let
> me select and continue the wizard. If I point it to the network location
> (an NTFS volume with Full Control granted to Everyone) it returns a
> permissions error.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Frankly I'm surprised that it is this difficult to restore...I've been
> hearing raves and reading Technet magazine articles about the improved
> backup and recovery of Vista...clearly I need to learn more so I hope
> someone can point me to an article or procedure. I've searched the groups
> and MS site but really all I have found is the basic steps...start the
> wizard...etc. I assume there's a command line so I'll explore that unless
> someone has a better idea...
>
> Could it be a permissions issue? The user name and hostname are probably
> different than before. Hell, I can't even really remember what they were
> before...do I need to take ownership under the current account name? yech.
>
> MW
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