Vista Ultimate System Restore, anyone tried it?

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I did an image of my 'C' drive after watching a Technet web cast on this, the backup took about 5 mins if that to make an image of 23gig and drop it on a separate I have installed..

All seems great but has anyone actually booted from the Vista DVD and run the repair program to put the image back?

And if so, did it work correctly?

Had a search round but couldn't find if this had happened?

Thanks :)
 
I was thinking exactly the same thing yesterday.

I used the Vista Back Up to create an image of my laptop install in case I have to send it back for a replacement. When the new laptop arrives I'm hoping just to boot from the Vista DVD and restore the image.

Don't know if it'll actually work though.:o
 
I backed up when I instsalled vista but never had a problem..............

(Documents etc backed up daily elsewhere, I like a bare recovery).
 
GuruJockStrap said:
I was thinking exactly the same thing yesterday.

I used the Vista Back Up to create an image of my laptop install in case I have to send it back for a replacement. When the new laptop arrives I'm hoping just to boot from the Vista DVD and restore the image.

Don't know if it'll actually work though.:o
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I think I saw someone mention that it only likes to be re-imaged onto a drive the is exactly the same size as the drive the image was made up on?

I have a Seagate 250gb drive out on RMA, I may pop it in when I get it back and have a go at a restore? I won't activate Vista again after I won't even put it on the net I'll just test to see if it actually does what it says on the tin :)

I would have thought someone here would have had cause to use it though? :confused:
 
I used it when I deleted 2 partitions on the HDD to form 1 it didn’t like it because the drive size doubled it moaned about not being the correct drive :( so yes you need to install the image on the same drive with no changes it seems.
 
i backed up my vista boot hd after activating back in january (complete HD image) and have used it about five times since then (dodgy drivers) and have not had a single problem cant say for the file backup as have not used it but the complete pc backup hasnt caused me any trouble at all.
 
Tried it and failed miserably with restore or backup but i think it might be because of dual booting but 3 times my vista has borked and each time i tried to restore it back it said either no system restore found or image not valid :( vista buisness 32bit :o so for now as vista is hardly used much except to play bioshock atm ive turned restore and backup off..........
 
Ha?

Everyone who says they have had issues with it have also stated why they think that could be, or actually stated the reason for it not working?

Baked said he has used it many times without issues, and yes drive size may may be a problem for some (not all)

But chocolate tea pot, it is not?

I'm purely talking about Complete PC backup here, not restore to ealier point, or file backup :)
 
I've used it several times already - people who had it fail must be doing something wrong I mean seriously - I have used SR since WinXP was released and none of the pcs I've used it on has had it not work correctly. the last restore I did on my Vista32 Ultimate gaming machine was a life saver because a bluetooth driver caused a BSOD on Windows load which only a system restore from safe mode resolved.


System Restore is an amazing feature.
 
Sorry gents I headed this wrongly to start with :(

I'm talking about the complete pc backup and restore function .i.e. take an image of my C drive (in my case this was a 23gig file. Put it on my D drive and it my C drive corrupts I throw the Vista DVD in and hit repair and it places the image back! :D
 
i think most probles arise when the hd or partition size has changed since the backup i ran it on 1hd, three partitions vista, backup1 (basically a clean format) and backup2 (a more recent roll back). for me it has been great as i like to re-install every month or so
 
if you set the backup after you have activated you dont need to do it again. for me it takes about 15-20 mins top (it will depend on the size of the file being imaged), i spend more time checking vista for any files i want to keep before doing the re-image. for all the new things in vista this is one of my faves as i always had problems with the system restore function in xp
 
Sounds good to me :D

I may do a test image onto a spare 250gb I have this week then, just to prove a point and give me the confidence that all works well..

Thanks for you comments Baker ;)
 
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