Vista - Backup Complete Computer

You're welcome Angelo. It really depends on much is being backed up, but it takes my 18 GB about 15 minutes to be abcked up on another partition on the same drive. Hope this gives you enough information to make a rough estimate with.

Shawn

hi shawn, i have 2 pc's- mine with vista ultimate, and my sons with vista basic, im assuming that u cant back up computer in basic??
smokin thumz

Hi Smokin Thumz,

The Vista Home Basic edition can only do manual Back up Files type instead of a Complete PC Backup.

Backup Files


You would need to use a 3rd party program to be able to do a complete backup in Vista Home Basic. A good program to use is Acronis True Image. You can try a 15 day trial version from here to see of you like it.

Complete hard disk recovery solution, backup, drive copy, clone and image computer software

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Sorry for bringis this up again, I find various responses to this questions a bit everywhere over the internet. Gt a bit cofused,I guess. I had my external harddisk compromised by a virus and decided to format it. Now I like to start all over again with complete PC backups and file backups. Do I need to reset the last backup location and date in Vista (x86) Ultimate? Is there a way to do this without doing direct registry editing? Would prefer not to do this at at time I have no backup.

Hello Submarine, and welcome to Vista Forums.

There is no need for you to do this. When you create the next Complete PC Backup it will automatically reset the last backup listing.

You would only reset the last backup listing if you had deleted the backup and was not going to do a backup again for a while and just did not want to see the backup listing. It's mostly for appearance sakes to keep things tidy, but it would not hurt anything by just leaving it there either.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks, makes things much easier.

You're welcome Submarine.

Shawn

I tried Full system Backup to a USB HDD but after in the restore it said no copies of backups found on this disk/computer.So wtf is going on.I eventually gave up and paid for Acronis True Image.Worked first time.

Win Vista x64 Ultimate
AMD Phenom x64 9850 Black Edition X4 (Quad Core)
AMD/ATI Sapphire HD 4850 1Gb ddr3 Graphics (oc'd to just over 1022Mhz)
4 Gb Corsair 1066 Mhz Mem,4 Gb Corsair USB Flash Drive for Readyboost
Anyway it seems strange to me if vistas own system backup can't do it but a third party program can ?????.Any ideas?

Hi Mika,

That is strange. Did the USB HDD have a WindowsImageBackup folder on it after you did the Complete PC Backup?

Did you enable the Legacy USB option in the BIOS so that the USB HDD could be recognized at boot to select it while testing the restore Complete PC backup option?

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Is it necessary/wise to scan for adware ,virus etc first ?