BleepingComputer.com: Windows Image Backup with Vista

Hey guys,

I was using Windows Vista for about a year and decided to delete the OS from my laptop and load XP back on... The removal went smooth mush to my surprise. Now that I have successfully loaded Windows XP onto the laptop I am trying to utilize the back up images I left from Vista on an external hard drive. I am unable to do so. Any help with this process would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


John

Well...you must use the same software to restore a backup...as was used to compile it.

I have my doubts about restoring any system backup to an external drive, but I've never tried it (because it did not make any sense to me and I have plenty of hard drives, no need for an external which is slower than a drive connected directly to the motherboard).

I've not ever used Vista (installed it briefly just to see if the disk worked).

Louis

Haha... so to summarize because I saved disk images in Vista I would need to download the Vista OS again? There is no way to open those disk images, saved when I had Vista, to XP???

Well...if you would only divulge...what program you used to backup in Vista...maybe someone could answer that.

This is the XP forum, maybe you could get an answer in the Vista forum.

I only know that files created by a given backup program...tend to only be capable of being opened by the same program or a compatible one, if such exists.

Louis