How can I move files from backup to backup of Vista on a new external drive?

I use Vista and have a few backup files made by the Vista Backup utility that is currently stored in a USB 2.0 external drive.

I bought a bigger external drive and I want to transfer data from the old disk to the new external drive and I tried:

1. fixing of the external drive and select all (mediaid.bin incl.)-> copy / paste
2 copy data from the old disk on the desktop and then copy from the office to the new drive

Both disks are formatted as NTFS. It seems to transfer ok, but when I checked the data on the new external drive, it is much LESS than the data on the old disk (disk right click computer-> properties). I think that Vista is resistant to climb a backup of files. There was no error prompt.

Help, please. Why is this happening?

Hi MalG,

Here's a thread that explains the mobile discussions to another drive and offers some advice, you may want to consider:

http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en/WindowsBackup/thread/a9fbf2ee-ae4b-4c0a-8c91-593d4022c797

Let me know if that helps!

Cody C
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