Restoring Vista backups onto XP

>I am going away on holiday and am taking my Vista backup disc with me. The
> problem is that the machine I have use of is an XP machine. I suspect it
> wont
> allow me to restore to it. What can be done to get around this potential
> problem ?

> Vista file backups are .zip files, so theoretically you could just extract
> the files you want from each zip, though in some cases files are split
> across the zips and you'd need to recombine them. The other idea I had was
> to take a Complete PC Backup and store that on DVD. From XP, you can install
> the Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta and use the vhdmount utility to mount
> the backup vhd file. The result is that your backup is mounted like a
> volume, and you can pick whichever files you want to copy to your XP
> machine.
>
> Here are a couple pointers for mounting .vhd files:
> http://community.bartdesmet.net/blog...9/02/4385.aspx
> http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy...01/734435.aspx
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> >I am going away on holiday and am taking my Vista backup disc with me. The
> > problem is that the machine I have use of is an XP machine. I suspect it
> > wont
> > allow me to restore to it. What can be done to get around this potential
> > problem ?

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