restoring from full PC backup set

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John DeStefano

Before repartitioning my hard drive, I used Vista's Home Premium's
full PC backup option to save all my files to another drive. It
created a directory named after my machine, which contains a "Backup
Set (date)" directory that has a Catalogs and a Backup Files (date)
directory. The process completed just fine, so I went ahead with
repartitioning and reinstalled Vista.

Now, when I try to restore these files, Vista doesn't see them, and it
says I have no files to restore. I also tried sharing this folder so
that I could enter the path in the Network field, but that didn't work
either. I tried to manually copy the backed-up files, but it seems
that the backup application split up all files that were larger than a
certain size, and I can't manually put them back together.

How can I restore these files?
 
Did you move the backup files to a different location by chance? Or did you
just make the backup, save it on your other drive, and then you are now
attempting to restore?
 
Did you move the backup files to a different location by chance? Or did you
just make the backup, save it on your other drive, and then you are now
attempting to restore?
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I created the backup directly on another drive (USB external), and I
haven't moved them. I'm trying to restore them from that location.
 
John, can you generate an output file and email it to me? I need you to run
the following command from an elevated command prompt, replacing x: with the
volume that contains the backup.

dir /b /s /a x:\ > c:\output.txt


To email this to me, remove "online" from my address.

(To start an elevated command prompt, type "command prompt" in the Start
Search area on the Start menu. Right-click the Command Prompt icon that
appears and then click Run As Administrator.)

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