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Thread ID: 111216 2010-07-18 12:23:00 Restore problems kfoffice (9242) Press F1
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1119909 2010-07-18 12:23:00 I have a an HP / Compaq presairo laptop I bought some two years ago . It came with Vista Home Premium, 2GB ram, and 1 . 86 duo processor and 120GB hard drive .

Using the Vista Backup /Restore I backed up all my important data & personal files into a WD external 1TB hard drive . I then reformatted the harddrive and reloaded all the programs .

Now everything went well until I came to restore everything back from my external drive into my newly loaded Vista laptop . The Vista Restore funtion in cotro panel could not restore any of the backups I backed up in my external WD external harddrive . I hope someone can help me restore all my documents, emails, etc .

When I click on "MY computer" I can see the external harddrive fine . I can even click on the backup folders and see all the data that I backed up . I'm a bit confused why Vista can't just restore all these backpup files .
kfoffice (9242)
1119910 2010-07-18 22:00:00 Try this from a command prompt:

wbadmin start recovery -version:03/05/2008-01:31 -itemtype:volume -items:c: -backuptargetBig Smile: -recoverytarget:c:



NOTE you need to pull the version from the command;



wbadmin get versions
pctek (84)
1119911 2010-07-19 00:23:00 So I type in the whole string above? kfoffice (9242)
1119912 2010-07-19 00:55:00 Sorry can you explain how do I type in the above instructions? Do I type everything exactly how you have it above as in "wbadmin start recovery -version:03/05/2008-01:31 -itemtype:volume -items:c: -backuptargetBig Smile: -recoverytarget:c:" ? kfoffice (9242)
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