I have just wasted 20 hours between 2 days trying to get my system restored.Once I had reinstalled vista and "ALL" of my programs and settings (4 hours total) and backed up to my external 120 GB USB Drive I then ran a test restore.Got the same error message,"No Backup image cannot be found,' even though I backed it up to the root of G: which is my external USB drive, and that is where I am pointing the restore from. Can anyone please help someone with a high level of frustration who does not want to deal with Microsoft directly?Thanks in Advance.Ray