completepc backup works great

Wanted to try backing up my Vista Beta 2 partition using the included CompletePC Backup option. It creates an image backup of the full partition (similar to Ghost). Started it up in Vista and did the image backup to an external USB hard drive. Took about 8-10 minutes to backup up the partition which is currently using about 15GB.
Pulled the 40GB hard drive which I initially installed on in my Vista Beta 2 test system. Put it a new unformatted Seagate 160GB SATA2 3GBs NCQ hard drive. Booted from the Vista Beta 2 DVD, went into the recovery options and did a CompletePC restore to the new drive.
Worked great. Vista Beta 2 is smoother than ever on the new, faster hard drive. Although I did have to go through Windows activation again after Vista started on the new drive.
It's too bad this feature is not going to be available in Home Premium which is what I was targeting as the version I would purchase.

In article , wgd@somewhere.com says...

Wanted to try backing up my Vista Beta 2 partition using the included CompletePC Backup option. It creates an image backup of the full partition (similar to Ghost). Started it up in Vista and did the image backup to an external USB hard drive. Took about 8-10 minutes to backup up the partition which is currently using about 15GB.
Pulled the 40GB hard drive which I initially installed on in my Vista Beta 2 test system. Put it a new unformatted Seagate 160GB SATA2 3GBs NCQ hard drive. Booted from the Vista Beta 2 DVD, went into the recovery options and did a CompletePC restore to the new drive.
Worked great. Vista Beta 2 is smoother than ever on the new, faster hard drive. Although I did have to go through Windows activation again after Vista started on the new drive.
I think I spoke too soon on this. After restoring from this backup I

started to encounter some strange problems. Performed another restore from a Ghost partition image backup and everything started working fine again.
Partition image backups taken from within Vista while it is active may not be such a good idea. Ghost image backups of the partition are taken once Vista has completely shutdown.

I have been successful with restoring an installation of Vista from a CompletePC Backup, but have not tried "ghosting" a new drive this way. Were you successful after taking the image when Vista was not running and applying the image to a new drive?
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In article , wgd@somewhere.com says... Wanted to try backing up my Vista Beta 2 partition using the included CompletePC Backup option. It creates an image backup of the full partition (similar to Ghost). Started it up in Vista and did the image backup to an external USB hard drive. Took about 8-10 minutes to backup up the partition which is currently using about 15GB.
Pulled the 40GB hard drive which I initially installed on in my Vista Beta 2 test system. Put it a new unformatted Seagate 160GB SATA2 3GBs NCQ hard drive. Booted from the Vista Beta 2 DVD, went into the recovery options and did a CompletePC restore to the new drive.
Worked great. Vista Beta 2 is smoother than ever on the new, faster hard drive. Although I did have to go through Windows activation again after Vista started on the new drive.
I think I spoke too soon on this. After restoring from this backup I started to encounter some strange problems. Performed another restore from a Ghost partition image backup and everything started working fine again.
Partition image backups taken from within Vista while it is active may not be such a good idea. Ghost image backups of the partition are taken once Vista has completely shutdown.

In article , mvan103REMOVE@hotmail.com says...

I have been successful with restoring an installation of Vista from a CompletePC Backup, but have not tried "ghosting" a new drive this way. Were you successful after taking the image when Vista was not running and applying the image to a new drive?
Yes, when I restored the Ghost image file (Symantec Ghost 2003) of the

Vista Beta 2 partition to new drive everything worked fine.

Good to know! Thanks.
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In article , mvan103REMOVE@hotmail.com says... I have been successful with restoring an installation of Vista from a CompletePC Backup, but have not tried "ghosting" a new drive this way. Were you successful after taking the image when Vista was not running and applying the image to a new drive?
Yes, when I restored the Ghost image file (Symantec Ghost 2003) of the Vista Beta 2 partition to new drive everything worked fine.