Guest Simon Posted July 7, 2007 Posted July 7, 2007 Help please! I run XP Home with IE7. Have just restored XP including SP2 and IE7. I have a backup of Desktop, Favorites, My Docs etc held on floppy discs and am trying to restore settings back to the original locations - Desktop, IE home page etc. Problem is that despite using the advanced settings part of the wizard, I can't get the files to their original locations. They transfer fine to the C drive but only as far as Documents and Settings where they just sit in a folder. Would be very grateful please for some specific instructions as to how to restore them to the proper/original locations. Thanks.
Guest Don McIntosh Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 RE: Restoring From Backup Wizard Hi Simon, I can't solve your problem because I am experiencing a similar one. My old but completely updated version of XP Home got very flaky with numerous error messages and crashes. When I could no longer get my anti-virus to work, I decided I had to start over. Using the XP backup utility, I did a complete backup. I got the system back up and running and then I tried to restore My Documents. The first time, the restore just stopped. The second time it seemed to work with no error messages but I cannot access my files. I get an error message saying the folder is not accessible and access is denied. I suspect that the paths have gotten screwed up. I tried to do an incremental restore and got a huge list of skipped files. I still can't access any of them. I think the message here is - don't use the Microsoft backup utility. But since I did I would appreciate some help. Thanks. "Simon" wrote: > Help please! > I run XP Home with IE7. Have just restored XP including SP2 and IE7. I > have a backup of Desktop, Favorites, My Docs etc held on floppy discs and am > trying to restore settings back to the original locations - Desktop, IE home > page etc. > > Problem is that despite using the advanced settings part of the wizard, I > can't get the files to their original locations. They transfer fine to the C > drive but only as far as Documents and Settings where they just sit in a > folder. Would be very grateful please for some specific instructions as to > how to restore them to the proper/original locations. Thanks.
Guest Simon Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 RE: Restoring From Backup Wizard Hi Don I did manage to solve this manually in the end. I realised that when I had re-installed XP I had given my PC a slightly different name than it had before. Of course this stopped everything being reinstalled in its old location because the path was no longer the same. I therefore dragged everything over manually to the equivalent location in the new set-up and managed to get most things back. Good Luck. "Don McIntosh" wrote: > Hi Simon, > > I can't solve your problem because I am experiencing a similar one. > > My old but completely updated version of XP Home got very flaky with > numerous error messages and crashes. When I could no longer get my > anti-virus to work, I decided I had to start over. > > Using the XP backup utility, I did a complete backup. I got the system back > up and running and then I tried to restore My Documents. The first time, the > restore just stopped. The second time it seemed to work with no error > messages but I cannot access my files. I get an error message saying the > folder is not accessible and access is denied. I suspect that the paths have > gotten screwed up. > > I tried to do an incremental restore and got a huge list of skipped files. > I still can't access any of them. > > I think the message here is - don't use the Microsoft backup utility. But > since I did I would appreciate some help. Thanks. > > "Simon" wrote: > > > Help please! > > I run XP Home with IE7. Have just restored XP including SP2 and IE7. I > > have a backup of Desktop, Favorites, My Docs etc held on floppy discs and am > > trying to restore settings back to the original locations - Desktop, IE home > > page etc. > > > > Problem is that despite using the advanced settings part of the wizard, I > > can't get the files to their original locations. They transfer fine to the C > > drive but only as far as Documents and Settings where they just sit in a > > folder. Would be very grateful please for some specific instructions as to > > how to restore them to the proper/original locations. Thanks.
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