Complete PC Backup RestoreRestoring Your Complete PC Backup The Complete PC Backup Restore is more of a disaster recovery tool. With that in mind let's pretend that one day while working on your PC, it suddenly freezes and the image goes black. A few seconds later you see the "Blue Screen of Death" (actually the blue screen of diagnostics) appear. You restart your PC but no luck. The blue screen shows a brief message like INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. Most likely you've just experienced a hard drive crash. We're going to assume that the drive is no longer operational and needs to be replaced. Once the hard drive has been replaced with a new one we can begin the Complete PC Backup Restore. You are going to need your Vista CD or DVD so that you can boot from it. If you find that your computer is not set to boot from a CD or DVD, click the link to find out how to change the boot order. Once you have your boot order set to boot from disk, go ahead and place the Vista disk in your PC and restart the computer. You should see the message "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD.." as shown below. Press the "enter" key or the "space bar" to begin. This is a timed response so if you miss it just restart your PC and try again.
If you are prompted to choose a language, do so, and click the Next button. At the next window, shown below, click on "Repair your computer".
The System Recovery Options window will not show an operating system since we don't have one installed yet. Click Next to continue.
At the next window click on "Windows Complete PC Restore" from the menu of choices. The system will now search your computer for an external drive with a complete backup on it.
The backup will be displayed in the window shown below. Be sure to verify that it is the correct backup. If not, you can choose a different backup. Once you have the correct backup, click Next.
The next window will ask you to verify your choices. Click Finish.
The next window warns you that the Complete PC Backup Restore will format (erase) the destination drive. Make sure that you are restoring to the correct drive. Confirm that it is okay to format your disk by putting a check in the checkbox. Click OK.
The Complete PC Backup Restore begins...
The Windows Complete PC Backup is a great new tool. Please take advantage of it as soon as possible. You can now take a snapshot of your entire computer setup including personal settings and any applications that you have loaded. How great is that! Just remember that any changes you make to your computer after the Complete PC Backup will not be part of the image. For those everyday minor changes use the Automatic Backup procedure. Return From Complete PC Backup Restore to the SiteMap Return From Windows Complete PC Restore to the Home Page
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