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All folders on C: backed up but unfortunately not in form of image
Two weeks before my old Vista ultimate went bust I had, for security’s sake,
copied all data on C: to an external HD – instead of saving them in the form of an image. This was rather stupid. For my newly installed Vista, How should I now make best use of the saved data? Try to copy at least some of the files individually ? Would you have any suggestion? Many thanks in advance Mollius |
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All folders on C: backed up but unfortunately not in form of image
Mollius wrote:
Two weeks before my old Vista ultimate went bust I had, for security’s sake, copied all data on C: to an external HD – instead of saving them in the form of an image. This was rather stupid. For my newly installed Vista, How should I now make best use of the saved data? Try to copy at least some of the files individually ? Would you have any suggestion? Many thanks in advance Mollius You're going to have to be more specific about the type of data. If it is merely contents of your Documents folder, and similar folders, copy them en masse to their destination folders and when you're sure you've accomplished what you wanted to do, it will be safe to dump the backups. |
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All folders on C: backed up but unfortunately not in form of image
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:55:01 -0700, Mollius
wrote: Two weeks before my old Vista ultimate went bust I had, for security’s sake, copied all data on C: to an external HD – instead of saving them in the form of an image. This was rather stupid. No, not stupid at all. What you did is fine. For my newly installed Vista, How should I now make best use of the saved data? Try to copy at least some of the files individually ? Simply connect the external drive and copy them to the internal drive. If it's data that was in the \Documents folder, copy it there. You don't have to do it individually, do them all at once. Use Ctrl-A to select all the files, then drag them to the internal \Documents folder. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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All folders on C: backed up but unfortunately not in form of i
Hallo,
many thanks. Unfortunately I did not express myself clearly enough. My "DOCUMENTS" have been on a separate partition. With "Data" I meant all the Windows Programm folders and settings, also additional programs on my old (and gone) C: partition. Had I saved them as an image, there would be no problem, but I had them secured by simply copying all of C: to an external drive. The question is in what way should I now make best use of the saved folders? Copy the folders as they are nto the new Vista installation will probably not work. Would you have the patience and look into again? Mollius "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:55:01 -0700, Mollius wrote: Two weeks before my old Vista ultimate went bust I had, for security’s sake, copied all data on C: to an external HD – instead of saving them in the form of an image. This was rather stupid. No, not stupid at all. What you did is fine. For my newly installed Vista, How should I now make best use of the saved data? Try to copy at least some of the files individually ? Simply connect the external drive and copy them to the internal drive. If it's data that was in the \Documents folder, copy it there. You don't have to do it individually, do them all at once. Use Ctrl-A to select all the files, then drag them to the internal \Documents folder. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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All folders on C: backed up but unfortunately not in form of i
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:57:01 -0700, Mollius
wrote: Hallo, many thanks. Unfortunately I did not express myself clearly enough. My "DOCUMENTS" have been on a separate partition. With "Data" I meant all the Windows Programm folders and settings, also additional programs on my old (and gone) C: partition. Had I saved them as an image, there would be no problem, but I had them secured by simply copying all of C: to an external drive. The question is in what way should I now make best use of the saved folders? Copy the folders as they are nto the new Vista installation will probably not work. Would you have the patience and look into again? You're welcome, but if that's what you meant by "data," you are using the word in a very atypical and personal manner. If you are doing a clean reinstallation of Windows, nothing you have backed up within \Windows will be of any use. The same is true of almost all the installed programs. Except for a rare, typically small, program, all programs have many entries within \windows, in the registry and elsewhere; if Windows is reinstalled, programs installed under it will not work. They will have to be reinstalled. "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:55:01 -0700, Mollius wrote: Two weeks before my old Vista ultimate went bust I had, for security’s sake, copied all data on C: to an external HD – instead of saving them in the form of an image. This was rather stupid. No, not stupid at all. What you did is fine. For my newly installed Vista, How should I now make best use of the saved data? Try to copy at least some of the files individually ? Simply connect the external drive and copy them to the internal drive. If it's data that was in the \Documents folder, copy it there. You don't have to do it individually, do them all at once. Use Ctrl-A to select all the files, then drag them to the internal \Documents folder. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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All folders on C: backed up but unfortunately not in form of i
For some of your installed applications, you may be able to recover data
from the \Users\username\AppData\location\appname folder relating to application-specific things like user options, but what is stored there and what would and would not work when copied back is different for each app. Since you are re-installing these apps anyway, there's probably no harm in attempting a restore of AppData (folder by folder). For things like favourites and email the items may be recoverable, but you will need to handle each application on its own - there's no general procedure that works across everything. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Mollius" wrote in message news Hallo, many thanks. Unfortunately I did not express myself clearly enough. My "DOCUMENTS" have been on a separate partition. With "Data" I meant all the Windows Programm folders and settings, also additional programs on my old (and gone) C: partition. Had I saved them as an image, there would be no problem, but I had them secured by simply copying all of C: to an external drive. The question is in what way should I now make best use of the saved folders? Copy the folders as they are nto the new Vista installation will probably not work. Would you have the patience and look into again? Mollius |
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