Vista: Windows Image Backup

[stuppy]

I got Vista Ultimate today to replace Home Premium.

I looked at the Back up thing in Control Panel. I did a complete system back up onto a partition on the hard drive.

Does that mean if when say wanna format - instead of installing Windows over again - i can just lay down the image it backed up with my clean install? I presume its a lot quicker then doing a full install again?

Could i dump the files and do it over the network - I have a gigabit network so it would be just as fast as reading from the hard drive in the computer.

TA

 

[the-void]

When you perform the restore, it will reformat the partition you are restoring it to.

It won't let you backup to network locations though, and I couldn't find the option when I did the restore.

 

[stuppy]

I don't need to restore TO the network -

I am on about whether or not I can restore FROM the network. Cause if I can I can keep the backup on a removable hard drive.

I guess I can always keep a copy on a partition in my computer and one on the removeable drive.

 

[the-void]

"and I couldn't find the option when I did the restore."