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My main machine is playing up, I have ordered a new one but want to extract
as much old data from the old one as I can. Its a PC running Vista I have a full back up on an external hard drive. I do not have Vista on disk its in a partition on the hard drive. I also have a year old mirror copy of my hard drive but that also is a USB type connection I am doing this on the machine as it appears in some respects to be working normally, but if I connect anything with memory to any of the USB or card slots it fails to find it and if I open "Computer" and click on any of the external slots it shuts down and reboots so I cant do any further back ups. I had thought that as the hard drive was still working I could just drop it into the new machine but I am now suspecting its the Windows coding that is corrupted and I cant restore my back up because it wont read the USB slots and "System Restore" doesn't work. If I didn't want to save the data I could do a destructive restore to the original but I have never had to restore from a back up and I am not 100% sure that having done that , that A; it would cure the problem B; that the restore would result in me seeing exactly what I currently have in front of me. Any help would be gratefully received -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
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