Channel 9 Forums - Tech Off - Restoring XP to Vista upgrade http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Tech Off - Restoring XP to Vista upgrade http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Sun, 19 May 2013 04:07:25 GMT Sun, 19 May 2013 04:07:25 GMT Rev9 2 -2 -1 Tech Off - Restoring XP to Vista upgrade I recently upgraded an XP SP2 system with the Vista RTM. For a variety of reasons, it is necessary for me to restore my latest XP backup.

Thanks to others on the forum, I downloaded the NT backup utility for Vista and am about ready to do the restore.

Question:

1. Will simply doing a brute-force restore get rid of everything relating to Vista?

2. Do I have to tangle with Vista boot managers, etc.?

3. Do I need to do a format, and if how, how to do it?  It doesn't look like the NT backup utility for Vista has a format before restore feature.

Thanks!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/252007-Restoring-XP-to-Vista-upgrade/252007#252007 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:08:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/252007-Restoring-XP-to-Vista-upgrade/252007#252007 nicholasbedworth 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/nicholasbedworth/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Restoring XP to Vista upgrade Well the NT backup utility isn't the best tool for this kind of job. Making a backup with disk imaging software like Norton Ghost would have been wiser.

Considering the trouble you are facing, I would simply boot up the Windows XP setup and choose to reformat the entire drive.

Just make a backup of all your important data like documents and source code.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/252007-Restoring-XP-to-Vista-upgrade/94137f7456ab422c82e29dea0151c66c#94137f7456ab422c82e29dea0151c66c Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:10:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/252007-Restoring-XP-to-Vista-upgrade/94137f7456ab422c82e29dea0151c66c#94137f7456ab422c82e29dea0151c66c Laurens Ruijtenberg 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Laurens/Discussions/RSS