Recovery/Backup/Restore issue

Hello,

I am new to this forum and hope you can help me please. I'll try to be
brief and to the point.

Just bought a new computer with Vista. It crashed yesterday and was advised
to "start from scratch" and use recovery tool. Just before doing this it
asked me if I wanted to backup my data. Of course I did on an external hard
drive. Today I have successfully windows and running and it's new again.
Now I'm ready to restore my back up files.

When I use the Vista back up file utility, it doesn't "see" the backup files
on my external hard drive. When I go into explorer I can see the backup
files on my external hard drive. When I click on the application file (it
says it is a "restorewiz application"), it throws me into recovery manager
and says, "the file restore wizard helps you restore files that you backed up
earlier". So far so good. Then it says "insert the last disk. Please
insert the latest disk and continue the restore wizard." There is no option
to tell it to look on my external hard drive.

What am I missing? All I want to do is to restore these files which I can
see on my external hard drive. They are in the folder "MINWINPC" with file
extensions of .fpw. Thanks for any help.

Bruce

This group has been designated Setup for months. Please use it that way.
The last three weeks itts gotten flooded with questions that have nothing to
do with setup issues. It makes it more difficult to help on setup issues
wading through all the messages that are important to you but don't have a
damn thing to do with setup. If you can buy Vista, I assume you can read at
some level. Put your general questions on the general group and leave this
one for the setup issues.

If it's Adobe--it don't go here.
If it's driver--it don't go here.
If it's Winmail--it don't go here.
If it's Office related--it sure as hell don't go here and I've answered a
ton of Office questions/Outlook questions and BCM questions on the general
group even though they have their own groups and all their helpers have used
and most have Beta tested Vista for over a year.

CH

"Bruce" wrote in message

> Hello,
>
> I am new to this forum and hope you can help me please. I'll try to be
> brief and to the point.
>
> Just bought a new computer with Vista. It crashed yesterday and was
> advised
> to "start from scratch" and use recovery tool. Just before doing this it
> asked me if I wanted to backup my data. Of course I did on an external
> hard
> drive. Today I have successfully windows and running and it's new again.
> Now I'm ready to restore my back up files.
>
> When I use the Vista back up file utility, it doesn't "see" the backup
> files
> on my external hard drive. When I go into explorer I can see the backup
> files on my external hard drive. When I click on the application file (it
> says it is a "restorewiz application"), it throws me into recovery manager
> and says, "the file restore wizard helps you restore files that you backed
> up
> earlier". So far so good. Then it says "insert the last disk. Please
> insert the latest disk and continue the restore wizard." There is no
> option
> to tell it to look on my external hard drive.
>
> What am I missing? All I want to do is to restore these files which I can
> see on my external hard drive. They are in the folder "MINWINPC" with
> file
> extensions of .fpw. Thanks for any help.
>
> Bruce