vista file restore won't go in the right spot

ok i installed vista on the C drive , made a backup of the file , now i re-installed vista in dual boot, its on D drive , i want to restore all the file in the backup on top of the file where i installed vista on d to have a dual boot,

now my problem is: i select the backup then i select selective file backup, tell true image 10 to put it in the root of D and replace all the file, it goes on , then when i reboot i find all the files on d:\Drive(C)

how can i force true image 10 to put those file on top of the d:\ (root) and not inside the Drive(C) folder ?

 

You need to make image backups of a boot partition. You are making file/folder backups. Those will never be bootable.

If you are only trying to restore data files (in My Documents for example), restore them to the original locations.

 

hi,

i am trying to replace the folder \windows , \users\ and all other \* folder without replacing any file in the root directory in fact, becose i got a backup of windows vista with all the HP software "restore cd" i cannot hafve this restore cd in dual boot "when installed it kill every partition"

so i ad to install windows xp , i replaced all the files then with my xp backup this worked my software was still there as if i never formated and re-installed xp on c:

now i also installed vista in dual boot, and i want to replace the directory with the one in my backup, thats why i want to replace the file with a directory backup instead of a complete restore with the root file, so when i restore the backup and replace the windows file and keep the permission on them vista will have all the software i ad in the hp restore but now in dual boot with xp

but like i said when i do that it will make a directory called Drive(C) instead of replacing the directory \windows \user e.t.c

 

so in big you are telling me that a backup made on C: cannot be restored on D:\ ?

 

Hello sy5tem,

What you see is normal when restoring a Files and Folders image to a different location. It prevents inadvertenty overwriting existing files that may already be there.

Suggest you boot to the DOS Command prompt, navigate to the C:\Drive(C) directory (cd c:\drive(c)) and copy all files and folders in D:\Drive(C) to D:\ via the following command and switches

xcopy *.* d:\ /h /r /s (note the spaces between xcopy, *.*, d:\, /h, /r and /s)

If successful, and you are able to reboot into Windows Vista, delete the C:\Drive(C) folder.

Regards