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| | Re: Restoring backup from another computer At this point, it's anyones guess, since you omitted the details of how you backed up the old laptop. In any event, backup the new one before you attempt to recover files from the old laptops backup. And make sure that you have a bootable restore CD, to provide a recovery method if things go completely awry. I'd guess that you have some sort of drive image, and "restoring it" to a drive may wipe out whatever was previously on the drive. Many years ago, I worked with HP minicomputer based "technical systems". These systems used removable disk hard drives. We maintained three levels of backup. There was a remote possibility that a backup might be destroyed during a restore proceedure. Sure enough, I got a call one evening from the night shift. They had had a problem, tried the first level of backup, which failed. They then also consumed the second level of backup as well, and wanted to try the third level. My answer was unprintable. It was obvious that the cause of the problem had not been found, and the last level of backup should not be used until whatever was wrong corrected. We had diagnostics that were loaded from milar tape that were intended to be used in such a situation before the second backup level was used, and they had not been run. "mtjester" <mtjester@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:476DA958-721A-4090-AF53-1F4270068D6D@xxxxxx Quote: > I backed up my laptop (using Vista) but lost it. Now I have a new one. Quote: > can I restore those files to the new laptop? > -- > mtjester |
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