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I've got Vista Home Premium and I backed everything up to an external hard

drive. I'm going to be wiping the old hard drive and installing Vista on a

new computer. Can I use the Restore Feature to bring my files back, even

though it is a different computer?


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Hi, Newbie.



Backup/Restore often are matched pairs, or two parts of the same program.

Generally, so long as you are using both from the same set, you should be

able to restore from any media to any media. But you probably could not use

Vista's Restore for files backed up with Apple's Backup, for example.



Just be SURE that you can restore whatever you've backed up before you

delete the files. Backup without a compatible restore is really pretty

worthless, isn't it?



RC

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R. C. White, CPA

San Marcos, TX

rc@grandecom.net

Microsoft Windows MVP

(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)



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