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10-09-2007
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| | Restoring a backup from a external drive 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! -- Glen |
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10-09-2007
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| | Re: Restoring a backup from a external drive Are you trying to use a screen saver supplied by the operating system or some other? -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address) "GlenH" <GlenH@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:09FBBBB1-1DFD-46E6-B434-B2220DEDCD3D@xxxxxx 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! > -- > Glen |
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10-10-2007
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| | Re: Restoring a backup from a external drive No, I'm just trying to get the supplied screen savers to work -- Glen "Richard Urban" wrote: Quote: > Are you trying to use a screen saver supplied by the operating system or > some other? > > -- > > Regards, > > Richard Urban > Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User > (For email, remove the obvious from my address) > > > > "GlenH" <GlenH@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:09FBBBB1-1DFD-46E6-B434-B2220DEDCD3D@xxxxxx 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! > > -- > > Glen > |
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