I am currently using an external 500Gb USB-connected disk to store Complete
PC Backups (VHD files).
I was just browsing the news group and saw the following posting...
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Hi David,
Vista won't recognize a USB drive until the OS is fully loaded, it has (to
my knowledge) no provisions for loading from or to one during any point of
setup other than grabbing a driver for a RAID configuration or SATA drive.
Which, non coincidentally, may be the issue with the SATA drive. It may
require a manufacturer's driver to access it fully.
You mentioned you created these as network shares, were they attached
locally and mounted as such? or were they attached elsewhere on the network
and mapped?
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts
http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
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Rick's reply seems to indicate that a complete PC restore is not possible
from a USB-connected hard disk. If true, then my current backup strategy is
essentially useless (from a complete PC restore standpoint).
Can anyone confirm - is it true that a Complete PC Restore is not possible
from a USB-connected external disk?
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RichG
Microsoft Windows Vista