Just when I was about to give up and thinking I had lost all my files I thought about Googleing for a solution.

Must have writeen the right keywords because it brought me here and asn I write this the Recovery Manager has started to restore my files into my HD.

MUCHAS MUCHAS GRACIAS...!!

A very grateful user from Colombia, South America...!!

TROY@ YOU DA MAN
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I am having this same problem.
When i go through my computer i have no problem getting to my j drive and openning the back up folder which is .fbw files. The first one is an app but after 10-15 min of hanging there, the only option that it gives me is to restore from a cd/dvd.

I also tried going throush start>accessories> backup status and configuration. But when i follow the instructions, the restore program says "windows was not able to find any backup sets on J:\" even though i can find .fbw files in 'my computer.'
Why would it back up in a way that it can't restore.

Anyway please help i have a little over 7 months of stuff on this computer that i can't loose.

I just posted the message above this. I gues i didn't really listen to Tom's solution at first when i should have. I feel stupid but i did what he said to a T even though it went until 87 but its working right now.

Thank you Tom you really stepped up to the plate on this.

And I am definately with tidoo2001 lets get that class action. This is gotta be the sixth or seventh problem I've had with vista. Why would they release something like this without testing it and gettin gout the kinks. I mean, you can't even buy a new computer without it and it is just one headache after another



Anyway,

THANKS AGAIN TOM

I have appreciated greatly what others have shared and I long to get to the point of recovering my data. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but having gone through the process, when I click on the backup1.exe file, it asks me if I trust the file (really!) and when I click on it I get nothing. The program won't start. It's like the exe file doesn't do anything. Am I missing something?

Thanks for the help.

Drew

After having the same problem, I just can't believe that putting an extra zero in front of the 10's column could have solved this restore problem, but there you go, it was as simple as that.

I am extremely grateful to the user that that posted this solution.

Thanks again

Dave

I have successfully restored Vista backups after much frustration - similar problems to those discussed here.
My solution was to be patient when the restore process starts. You will see a window which shows a progress meter - It stays at 0% for a long time. In my case I gave up too soon. Then I transferred the exe and fbw files to another computer and tried again. This time I decided to wait forever if necessary to see what would happen. It took about an hour before the recovery actually started. I think the reason is that the recovery file is so large.
If I had been more patient the first time on the original computer I'm sure it would have worked.

There was a problem trying to do the restore a second time from the same computer after closing the recovery process the first time. That was why I had to try it on a second computer.