Robert MacLean
9 January 2008
Vista has a great feature called complete backup with makes a VHD of your hard drive (more details see channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=229767), or so I'm told. Yesterday was the first chance I got to sit down and use it, and I'm not over the moon by it. I used an external SATA drive (connects via USB) to store the backup and that was fine. It didn't run the first time cause the laptop was on battery mode (probably a good thing that it warned me).
The VHD was created in an acceptable time and I moved to the new machine and popped the Vista disk in and started the restore. That was quick. However when I tried to boot it blue screened. So I popped the Vista disk back in and tried to use the startup repair tool, it said ti found a problem but couldn't repair it
. So in the end I installed Vista over the restored version, which has it's plus in that it meant any files out side of the My documents of the user also got copied across but meant cleanup of the Windows.Old folder.
Looking around this morning it seems there are some issues in it
The VHD was created in an acceptable time and I moved to the new machine and popped the Vista disk in and started the restore. That was quick. However when I tried to boot it blue screened. So I popped the Vista disk back in and tried to use the startup repair tool, it said ti found a problem but couldn't repair it
. So in the end I installed Vista over the restored version, which has it's plus in that it meant any files out side of the My documents of the user also got copied across but meant cleanup of the Windows.Old folder. Looking around this morning it seems there are some issues in it
- http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-10877-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=210131&messageID=2163410 (some minor things to be aware of)
- http://professionalinsight.net/VistaBackup.aspx (didn't have this issue and the drives were very different)