This weekend I happend to be messing around with my Windows Vista Home Premium gaming PC and trashed it. I’m sick of Vista being so damn slow and eating up a gig of memory in the process of making my desktop look pretty, so I was going to either create an XP Pro/Vista dual boot or a straight up XP boot as my Vista PC has been backed up with my WHS. I’ve never tested a PC Recovery on this PC or any other PC since I bought my HP MediaSmart server a few months ago.
After awhile of stumbling around with formatting drives from Vista back to XP I just decided to restore my damn PC and leave Vista on there and move on to other projects I had for this weekend. So I booted up my PC with the WHS PC Recovery CD and it found my added gigabit network card and everything. I started up the recovery and left to watch some tv. This puppy took about 55 gigs of backup space for a single manual backup I did right after installing SP1 (I should have done it before, but everything worked out fine after SP1 so…). It was going to take about 2 hours or something to restore the entire PC with both partitions (one for the std HP recovery partition) so I decided to watch a movie and check on it later.
Once the restore was complete, I booted up the PC as usual and everything was back to normal. My damn backup is so large since I have Gears of War, ShadowRun, Halo 2, Doom 3 and a few other games installed on it that takes up most of the space. It was a painless experience and I’m glad I’ve done a full restore and know it works perfectly!
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