Free backup4all Question (somewhat urgent)

My PC just died. Fortunately I backed up yesterday using backup 4 all.

However, I am getting a new PC with a different processor and different OS (going to 64 bit, going to Vista, last PC was 32 bit and XP home).

Should I be able to download the last freeware version of backup4all and restore documents I backed up on the old PC to the new PC? Mostly MS Word documents, some pictures, a MS Access database, etc.

What problems might I encounter?

 

That old program might not work on Vista. Maybe someone who uses Vista Can advise you.

 

Well, even if it won't work on vista. The cool part is that I have my data backed up. This program uses standard zip compression, so I should be able to extract the backups and put them on my new PC using the zip tool that comes with my PC (I hope).

 

Your Correct that sounds like it would work.

 

I have two partitions and if I ever buy a new computer :
1. I wouldn't backup my system partition. I would re-install my new computer from scratch. My new computer will most probably have another Operating System (winVISTA) and then I prefer to install my applications manually.

2. I would backup my data partition of course, but not with an image. I would copy/paste them from my data partition to my external harddisk.
My data partition contains nothing but folders and files and when I keep them as folders and files on my external harddisk, I can do whatever I want with them and avoid any possible problems with my actual image backup software.