Double-click "Computer" on the desktop, and then double-click the letter assigned to your external storage device to open the location where the backups are saved. If the backups are on the computer's internal hard disk, navigate to the location or folder you saved them in when you initially created them.
Right-click the backup folder you want to delete from the location you saved it in, then click the "Delete" button to remove it.
Once deleted, the old backup is removed completely. Also backed up using the Vista Backup utility and can see the file on the USB drive but not within the restore tool and cannot reload the files from that.
I have the same problem. I made a backup with Vista Ulitmate. Rebulit my machine installed Vista again same version. Its only shows the files under advanced and i can search for and find my files. It even shows my backups. Each entry shows the backup time and date. But under backup location it says Backup location not available. I can see all the files inside of the backup but i get this error no matter what option I choose. The restore did not complete sucessfully. Restore did not finish sucessfully.
Error code: lists nothing its just blank. The backup file could not be found. Check your hardware configuration or restore from a diffrent backup. The only way i have been able to restore anything is to use Vista's search option. It sees the files i want inside of my backup cause its just a zip file then restores it. Why wont Vista's restore utility work on its own backups? Mabye because it was on a USB drive? I re-imaged my Vista Business system because of problems, and could not get Restore to read or even recognise my old backups daily file backups on USB.
Luckily I had also taken a simple filesystem copy of everything I thought was important, and also luckily I had a big enough USB drive to hold the multiple copies windows backup and filesystem copy ; and I also had made a DVD with "transfer files and settings" which I subsequently used.
I'm still running Windows daily file backups, but not sure why?? Shadow backups seem to take care of instant, simple file recovery needs. Would be interested to know when we get information on how to make full use of these backups we're encouraged to make.
And, would appreciate being able to recover files out of a full DVD system backup, too. More than a year later, i also had to try the restore function when my old computer died. Amazingly, MS folks don't even provide the courtesy of a response!!!
Although all backup files are visible on the external drive, restore reports that "Backup location is not available". A mac is looking better every day. Does the restore function work for anyone? I have the same problem i. I am amazed that no Microsoft techi has bothered to respond to this thread, and that no solution is listed on the Vista knowledge base. In addition, you can also refer the link mentioned below.
Which gives you more information on back and restore? I hope this information helps. Please get back to us if you have any more questions about this issue. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help.
Thanks for your feedback. Dave Youkers. I have regularly schedule a file backup each week to an external hard drive. In Vista, after a while that hard drive gets filled up with old backups, will that still be the case with Win 7?
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