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Reinstalling files after a clean reinstall of Win XP

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I used True Image Home 2009 to copy image of C drive of crashed system of WinXP onto an external drive and then did a scan and cleaning of the external drive. Now I want to reinstall the sectors/partitions, files and folders back onto the system after completing a reinstall of the WinXP OS. What is the best solution and will it restore the system back the way it was?

Bob

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Robert,

If you use your recovery CD, you should see an option to restore only specific files and folders. I am not sure the option is there for 2009, but you can try.

Alternatively, you can start your computer normally and then double click on your TIB files (provided ATI 2009 is installed) to access the files in the backup.
You can also mount the TIB as a new disk, and then copy the files you want back on your disk.

If you want to put the operating system back the way it was when you backed it up, then you need to restore the system partitions. Best way is to use the ATI bootCD and restore the partitions from the appropriate backup. having reinstalled windows first won't do anything for you unless you want to reinstall all your programs -- you don't need ATI for that nor will it be of any use fo that tiype of task.

You could, asPat suggests, copy data files (pics, docs, mp3s, etc.) out of the backup file, but this won't reinstall programs for you nor reconfigure windows to the way it was before.

Yes, to clarify what Scott said:

if you restore a disk or partition, you erase everything that is on the disk or partition you restore to and you put the data back from the backup. So you have reinstalled XP for nothing...