Recovering Files from Vista Backup

[wfarid]

I made a complete PC restore on my Raid 1 system in vista, and I should have been able to back up my computer, but I havent been.

Here's what happened: I was updating my bios and the defaults were set. When I restarted I forgot to turn on my onboard raid and it kicked my system out of its raid,and then I was unable to re-build the volume. I figured that deleting and then rebuilding my raid array and restoring everything from the backup would be an easy solution. However after rebuilding the array and re-installed vista, when I tried to restore the computer from the backup that I had made it told me that my drive was too small to restore to the image backup.

So now I am re-installing all the drivers and software that I had sort of backed up on my NAS, but I have a lot of unique files in that image backup, is there any way to pull them out?

[c627627]

You were using Vista's native drive image program?


*subscribed to this thread to see the answer to your question, if anyone knows.*

[wfarid]

yea i was using vista's native drive image program


http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk233/wfarid777/blurg.jpg

[wfarid]

Problem solved! Used WinImage to read the vista image file (.vhd) and I'm pulling off data as we speak.

[wfarid]

it uses a custom compression i think, so using winrar/zip wouldnt work. You can view/extract using windows virtual server (do a google on reading/extracting .vhd files) or just the proprietary software im using.

[c627627]

Maybe it was compressed, could you see if WinRAR or WinZip could open it so that just one file can be extracted?