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I'm trying to extract files from a backup made in XP.

I am using the 'advanced' restore feature, and I can select from two
options:
* hard disk, CD, or DVD (insert... etc...)
* shared folder on network

selecting the first radio button, I can *ONLY* select removable devices
in the list (THERE'S NO HARD DRIVES AVAILABLE TO SELECT FROM!!! - even
though the wording implies otherwise (quote: "hard disk")).

So I decide to bullchit the system a bit and cheat - I share the folder
the backup is in - and try option b. It find NO BACKUP SETS in there
(well it's bloody there, I can assure you).

What is the point of this new fangled backup system if it doesn't read
just one earlier backup set (Windows XP) ???

--
Duncan

"Dave Doe" <> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to extract files from a backup made in XP.
>
> I am using the 'advanced' restore feature, and I can select from two
> options:
> * hard disk, CD, or DVD (insert... etc...)
> * shared folder on network
>
> selecting the first radio button, I can *ONLY* select removable
> devices
> in the list (THERE'S NO HARD DRIVES AVAILABLE TO SELECT FROM!!! -
> even
> though the wording implies otherwise (quote: "hard disk")).
>
> So I decide to bullchit the system a bit and cheat - I share the
> folder
> the backup is in - and try option b. It find NO BACKUP SETS in
> there
> (well it's bloody there, I can assure you).
>
> What is the point of this new fangled backup system if it doesn't
> read
> just one earlier backup set (Windows XP) ???
>

http://help.lockergnome.com/vista/in...pict18975.html

Dave Doe <> wrote:
[snip]
> What is the point of this new fangled backup system if it doesn't read
> just one earlier backup set (Windows XP) ???

I say leave all these teething troubles for others. Why be an early
adopter when XP works well enough? Well, so long as you've a good
security ethic, Anti-virus, anti-spyware, hardware firewall configured
properly, etc, etc... hmmm - ok, maybe I CAN see why people are eager to
try Vista. But has anything REALLY changed? You STILL need all that for
Vista, don't you?

It's just not worth the trouble.

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:11:41 +1300, Dave Doe wrote:

> What is the point of this new fangled backup system if it doesn't read
> just one earlier backup set (Windows XP) ???

The purpose of all that M$ does is... to make more money for M$.

There is no other purpose. It is a commercial product - and that is why
it's such a pathetically poor product - because most people are too
inanely stupid to realise that there are better desktops than M$ Windows.


Aquilegia Alyssum

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"Aquilegia Alyssum" <> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:11:41 +1300, Dave Doe wrote:
>
>> What is the point of this new fangled backup system if it doesn't read
>> just one earlier backup set (Windows XP) ???
>
> The purpose of all that M$ does is... to make more money for M$.
>
> There is no other purpose. It is a commercial product - and that is why
> it's such a pathetically poor product - because most people are too
> inanely stupid to realise that there are better desktops than M$ Windows.
>
>
> Aquilegia Alyssum

What a bunch of crap.
People don't have to follow your ****ed up views and religeons at all, same
goes for your computer setup.

Who the Hell do you think really cares if you're using an Apple, HP, Dell,
PC compatible, or a microwave oven?
Same goes for the OS that you use just like the transport you choose to use.

It's pretty obvious you're anti computers since you hate people who use the
many computer products that you choose not to.

You're one of the most pathetic creatures to have ever walked the planet
with your very narrow minded attitudes, and obviously need full time medical
care.

E. Scrooge

In article <1hppi3x.1pyspdeifnsqkN% >,
says...
> Dave Doe <> wrote:
> [snip]
> > What is the point of this new fangled backup system if it doesn't read
> > just one earlier backup set (Windows XP) ???
>
> I say leave all these teething troubles for others. Why be an early
> adopter when XP works well enough? Well, so long as you've a good
> security ethic, Anti-virus, anti-spyware, hardware firewall configured
> properly, etc, etc... hmmm - ok, maybe I CAN see why people are eager to
> try Vista. But has anything REALLY changed? You STILL need all that for
> Vista, don't you?
>
> It's just not worth the trouble.

I think you need to try out Vista before making such comments - I think
you'd change your mind.

It's vastly improved - the GUI is the best I've ever used or seen, and
it has a heap of improved and new features.

The only thing I've had (or felt I needed) to add was antivirus (the OS
points out no anti.v. a bit like XP does) - and the OS is improved to
help there too (although I did not use any of the suggested products per
se, I dl'd AVG free and put that on).

--
Duncan

E. Scrooge <scrooge@*shot.co.nz(*sling)> wrote:
[snip]
> Who the Hell do you think really cares if you're using an Apple, HP, Dell,
> PC compatible, or a microwave oven?

Hey, I'm having trouble installing Vista on my Sanyo Microwave Oven. Can
you help me?

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Aquilegia Alyssum wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:11:41 +1300, Dave Doe wrote:
>
>> What is the point of this new fangled backup system if it doesn't read
>> just one earlier backup set (Windows XP) ???
>
> The purpose of all that M$ does is... to make more money for M$.

Umm, isn't that the purpose of most companies? If I thought our company
wasn't going to make money, I'd liquidate and sell out in ten seconds. I
bet if you ask Red Hat and Suse what their purpose is, making money out
of it will be pretty high on the list.

Sure, building great products, meeting the market, making a contribution
to the society in which we function, being a warm friendly company where
your sacking notice is a really cute and reassuring shade of pink, will
all be in the mission statement.

But for all the years I've worked in different places and industries,
making enough dosh to be here next month and keep on doing it has been
pretty much Thing One.


> There is no other purpose. It is a commercial product - and that is why
> it's such a pathetically poor product - because most people are too
> inanely stupid to realise that there are better desktops than M$ Windows.

Non-sequitur.

You assert that MS Vista is a "pathetically poor product". That's not
what reviews from respected commentators like Juha Saarinen are telling me.

Then you tell us that in your opinion it's so poor "because most people
are too inanely stupid..."

Wow, thanks for you opinion, mate. You are obviously one of the
Enlightened Ones, and the rest of us are but the dregs of the digerati,
ignorant of all that happens in front of us, unworthy even to lick the
dust mites from between the keys of your holy keyboard.

Then you assert that there are "better desktops than MS Windows (tho you
use the pathetic sideswipe at the company to write M$, which makes me
wonder if you also write $u$e,. )

"Better" is subjective: 'better' in the sense that Toyota styling is
'better' than Honda, that Mercedes fuel injection is 'better' than BMW.
It's an opinion, nothing more.

I dislike the intrusive remains of Palladium in MS Vista, I don't admire
their patenting practices and IP FUD and I actively dislike tne reported
behavior of Steve Ballmer, and I disgree with Bill Gates' long-running
campiagn to suggest the open source and free software are some kind of
"ommunist" conspiracy. That's all bullshit.

But it doesn't mean their product is lousy, or that people are stupid to
use it. I dislike Microsoft's behavior enough that I'm migrating all but
one of our machines here to Ubuntu. The need to keep one machine running
XP is a recognition of a weakness in our chosen Linux distro - some
things don't work, either well or at all.

But so long as you persist with rubbish like "M$" and "most peope are
too inanely stupid", you're nothing more than a fanboy.

Philip

Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:

> E. Scrooge <scrooge@*shot.co.nz(*sling)> wrote:
> [snip]
>> Who the Hell do you think really cares if you're using an Apple, HP,
>> Dell, PC compatible, or a microwave oven?
>
> Hey, I'm having trouble installing Vista on my Sanyo Microwave Oven. Can
> you help me?
>
> Regards,
> Jamie Kahn Genet


Why certainly,
step 1) Download NetBSD (hey it works on toasters)


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Hello Duncan...

> I think you need to try out Vista before making such comments - I think
> you'd change your mind.

I'm not that up to date with MS. Your comment suggests a "try before
you buy" with Vista. Is this right and if so how do I do it.

I still have a 10GB XP partition that I need to boot to now and then,
so would be interested in a trial version of Vista, just in case I ever
need to use it.

> The only thing I've had (or felt I needed) to add was antivirus

The number one reason I left XP was the lack of security. Is Vista
already compromised?

And, just out of interest, when was the Vista launch date? I'm not that
news savvy but I thought I would have noticed that.

> Duncan

Regards
Miguel