This means any data on your hard disk created or modified
since your last backup will be sucked into oblivion, so you??™ll
likely only want to use this feature if your hard disk crashes.
If you??™re restoring from within Windows, consider making
another, newer backup on different media before you restore
the older archive.
There are two ways to restore a backup made by the Complete PC Backup
tool. The first method, useful when you??™re rebuilding your PC with a new
hard disk or when Windows won??™t start, is outlined in ???Recover Your System
After a Crash,??? later in this chapter. The other method??”the one Vista
doesn??™t support out of the box??”is explained next.
Restore individual files from a Complete PC Backup
The most egregious limitation of the Complete PC Backup tool is that
Microsoft made no provision for restoring individual files from backup
archives. Their solution? Create a second backup with the lesser Back Up
Files wizard and use it to restore individual files. Never mind that your backups
will take twice as long to complete, consume much more disk space,
and provide individual file restoration only for personal documents. Why
Microsoft didn??™t simply provide the following tools is anybody??™s guess.
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Protect Your Data with RAID
RAID, or Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, is a collection of two or more
hard drives that your PC (and Windows) treats as a single volume. Save your
data once, and it??™s invisibly stored on two different physical disks simultaneously.
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