Vista requires that you upgrade to Ultimate Edition to restore the backups

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Home edition will keep backups for you, but if your computer fails, you have to upgrade to Ultimate ($400 price tag) to restore from them.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/want-those-backed-up-files-youve-gotta-upgrade-vista-251509.php

If you're running Vista Basic or Vista Home Premium and you want to restore your files to one of the backups your shiny new OS has been making, do you know what you need to do? Upgrade. Yes, the cheapo versions of Microsoft's new OS make backups of your files using the Previous Versions feature, but you aren't able to access them without upgrading to Vista Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate.

The wussier versions of the OS do back up system files for the system restore feature, but the previous versions feature that creates backups of your other files is crippled. That means if you accidentally save over the novel you've been working on for the last couple of years, in order to restore to last week's version you'll need to first upgrade to the $400 Vista Ultimate. How nice. –Adam Frucci
 
uscitizen said:
Why I just backup to DVD's every month. And do not use Vista.
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Oh well you're just so cool and trendy aren't you? Will you get a PC with Windows 7 and overwrite it with Vista too? I remember this exact same talk whenever XP came out. Now XP is Christ. There has been a religion formed around it. If you are going to bash Microsoft, at least do it appropriately: use Linux.


And Microsoft is greedy as hell like this. They like to arbitrarily disable features that are necessary to the operating system in order to force people to pay more. It's gouging.
 
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