just a question about the acer backup

i have a acer aspire 5535-5452 that came with vista, but when i got it i put windows 7 on it, i wanted to test something so i was thinking about doing a factory reset, but i qould like to pout 7 back, so i did a "user backup" in the erecovery application, it backed up about 100 GB's that was was on my hard drive, so i was wondering, if i do a factory restore back to vista, after im done could i use my user backup to restore it to windows 7?


i will not attempt this until i get a reply saying i will be able to restore back to win 7

 

I'm not 100% sure about this but as far as I remember user backup does backup your personal folders- not the system.
Assuming you haven't deleted recovery partition you still have ability to revert to vista but bot Win 7.

 

Doesn't really answer your question but if restoring and making image backups is something you do often then I would recommend Acronis True Image as a program to install and use. You can also run it from the install CD with no operating system. Put the backups on an external drive or even on the D partition on the Acer and you can do whatever you wish and restore back in minutes

As to your question... tbh I don't really understand you.
If you put W7 on your laptop then that would not have erecovery since that is an Acer appliation bundled with the original OS install.

Do you mean you ran Erecovery from "outside windows" in the hope it would back up your new W7 install. I have no idea if that is possible or would work.

 

i upgraded from vista so i still have all the acer stuff including empowering technolgy with all the "E" programs

i use macrium reflect to make hard drive images, would that still work?

 

So you ran the W7 install as an upgrade... and that kept your existing programs including ERecovery.

I honestly don't know if Vistas version of ERecovery will work under W7 or not.
I would imagine Macrium would as its shown as Vista/W7 compatable.

As long as the hidden partition is OK you should always be able to go back to the factory Vista image.
You can "clean install" W7 from an upgrade disc by the way which in my experience is the way to go even if it means installing applications and progs.