Windows Image Backup - renamed folder now restore cannot find any backups

Posted by Schneider on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Schneider
Published on 2011-02-04T05:10:45Z Indexed on 2011/02/04 7:27 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 491

Filed under:
|

A while back I decide to create a couple of Windows Image Backups of my workstation at various points during installation from clean.

While doing this I decided to rename the folders containing the VHDs from 'Backup <Date>' to something else of my choosing.

I didn't bother testing at the time that the restore still worked.

Now I come to use these backups for doing a bare metal restore to a different computer.

The problem is restore cannot 'see' any of the backups.

So I have deduced that maybe I need to rename them back to the 'Backup <Date>' pattern unfortunately I cannot determine the exact values that would have originally been used here. I have tried by best guest but the images still cannot be found. I have tried doing both a network and a usb hdd restore. No luck on either.

P.S. I know I can retrieve files from within the VHDs, the problem is I am trying to save myself time of reinstalling lots of big applications... not trying to recover data.

© Super User or respective owner

Related posts about windows-7

Related posts about backup