Only one full backup on Vista possible ?!?

I backed up (image based) my Vista PC onto a second disk (still 600GB free) which was fine .. now I tried to make another backup because I have to try some beta driver.

BUT : It does not allow me to choose that particular drive anymore but only lets me backing up to a DVD drive ..

Is tis "normal" ?

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tiersten

Yes. One complete PC backup per destination drive. You're expected to buy a proper backup solution if you want anything more complicated.

jibbajabba

tiersten wrote:

Yes. One complete PC backup per destination drive. You're expected to buy a proper backup solution if you want anything more complicated.

Is there a way to delete that backup ? I tried to just plain deleting the file but it remains "logged".

jibbajabba

Never mind, found it - Disk Cleanup ..

Edit: which didn't work

Edit2 : that didn't work either

C:\>wbadmin delete catalog
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.


Are you sure that you want to delete the catalog? If you delete the catalog,
you will need to create a new set of backups.
[Y] Yes [N] No y

The backup catalog has been successfully deleted.

Still there .. took over ownership of the folder and shift deleted it - according to Complete Backup its still there

Wish I'd used Acronis

Edit3 : Ok, had to go through the registry and needed to delete the keys manually .. so this is more user friendly how ? [/rant]

Edit4: I give up - it does say now "there are no backups" but when I create one it still refuses to re-use the data drive as destination .. this is stupid ...

kctxau

You might try going into disk management and changing the drive letter. If it works, you get another 20+ drives to use (depending on your current drive assignment).

Slowhand

That's definitely one thing I do not like about Vista, as much as I like other things about it: the lack of NT Backup. There are plenty of free tools out there, but it's still quite frustrating.