When the daily Vista backup failed, I expected it was time to throw out some of the older backups and make sure there was room on the backup drive for more—after all it’s only 750GB. Well about this time my system failed to boot. No amount of cajoling or trickery could get it to boot. Safe mode? Nope—blue screen that flashed by so fast I couldn’t read it. So I tried to use the backups that did exist on the drive to restore the system. The Vista Setup disk could not see them. I tore the system down (about midnight) and pulled the drive, tested it (it was fine) mounted it in a USB carrier and told Vista to look for it. No joy. I attached the drive and shared it to the network and told Vista to attach to the network (which it did) and look for the files. Not found.
As a result, I had to totally reinstall the OS. What a PITA. I’ll spend every non-working hour for weeks trying to get this (my primary dev system) back to 100%. Hell, the Windows updates alone take 36 hours to install…
I’m installing Acronis Workstation now and backing up the system so I can REALLY restore it when stuff happens—as it always does.
I just hope V7 works better than this…
ttyl
