Data Safe is not meant for restoring to a new empty hard drive. You have to install vista first from disk and then restore your files. See this-- www.dell.com/.../EN
Hi. My hdd crashed and I am trying to restore my system with the disks I created. This is a Inspiron 537 with Vista. The restore page I am on right now is DataSafe Local, which has two lines: Formatting your partition, and reinstalling your original content. It seems to be formatting my new harddisk (which is only 160GB). There is like a progress line underneath that is all green and a green circle to the left of formatting. It's been like this for some two hours. What is happening? Is it really doing its job? If it were transferring data from the DVD drive to the harddisk, you could hear the sound of the DVD drive as data is accessed. But no... What should I do? Reboot and retry? It shouldn't  take that long to format a drive. Thanks in advance for your help.
Restore takes a long time