I am experiencing difficulties restoring an image file.
The drive concerned is C drive. I am using Windows VISTA I have run "Recover my Drive" within VISTA the new drive always shows as RAW usually as Drive H. The target drive is formatted NTFS with drive letler H.
I have also tried the recovery environment - same result RAW.
I am recovering the image from an internal hard disk:
verifying before restore - no problems being reported here
I am experiencing difficulties restoring an image file.
The drive concerned is C drive. I am using Windows VISTA I have run "Recover my Drive" within VISTA the new drive always shows as RAW usually as Drive H. The target drive is formatted NTFS with drive letler H.
I have also tried the recovery environment - same result RAW.
I am recovering the image from an internal hard disk:
verifying before restore - no problems being reported here
Many thanks Allen, I will try again this evening and see how it goes.
Nampara
Hi Nampara,
You are welcome and I will look forward to further results. FYI: I will be gone during the day tomorrow (at work) and back online in the evening, but I will also check the forum before I leave for work in the morning.
The disk is now formatted as NTFS but does not appear with a drive letter, when I try to boot with the disk as the first boot device I get an error messgae for winload.exe inviting me to boot from the VISTA dvd --which I have not done as yet.
If I slave the drive and allocate a drive leter I can see all the files that were on my old c drive. Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry about the delay, just woke up. You performed all this from the recovery environment and not from within Windows, correct? Did you select all the options as mentioned above? And you deleted the partition on the new HD first, and did it then show as unallocated space from the recovery environment?
Yes I did use the recovery environment with all the seetings as suggested. I will not be able to attempt another restore until tomorrow (Friday).
Regards
Nampara
Hi Nampara,
Yes I would try it one more time. The only time I have seen this kind of thing happen is when someone attempts to do a restore from within Windows or does a disk Clone from within Windows and something similar to this occurs because Windows itself gives it a disk ID which prevents successful boot. As before when you try this again, I would delete the partition on the new drive to make it appear as 'unallocated space' to the recovery environment.
Just to make sure, did you remove the original C drive from the system? If not, give this a try before trying to boot from the new C dirve. Once you have the new drive booting correctly, you should be able to add the original drive back and then be able to format it or whatever you want to do to reuse it for something else. What type of drives do you have? SATA, IDE, etc. You used the word slave before which makes it sounds like IDE but just want to confirm.
If this still does not work and after trying the restore once more, then yes running a repiar from the Vista DVD should take care of it.
I am using SATA drives I just used the word slave because initaiily i still had other drives connected and the target drive was not the Boot Drive on Disk 0. I carried out the lateset attempt with no other drives connected other than the target - unallocated and the drive containing the original Norton Ghost file - actually connected by Firewire - I do also have a copy of the Ghost File on a SATA disk, do you think that would make any difference?
I am using SATA drives I just used the word slave because initaiily i still had other drives connected and the target drive was not the Boot Drive on Disk 0. I carried out the lateset attempt with no other drives connected other than the target - unallocated and the drive containing the original Norton Ghost file - actually connected by Firewire - I do also have a copy of the Ghost File on a SATA disk, do you think that would make any difference?
Regards,
Nampara
Hi Nampara,
No, what type of drive the backup image is contained on does not make a difference. When I talked about whether the original C drive was present I was talking about when you tried to boot up on the new C drive. If you have not already, please try to boot with only the new C drive present.
Please make sure that your NEW C drive is connected to the FIRST SATA port, it could be called SATA0 or SATA1 depending on the MB manufacturer and model. But it MUST be on the first port.
Do you have any IDE drives of any kind in the system, including CDROM, etc? Check your BIOS settings and make sure that it attempts to boot from the first SATA port as the first choice. Was your OLD C drive also SATA?
Also, I apologize for revisiting this but just want to make sure. In the following options during restore, were all of the following options present, not grayed out and selected?
Verify recovery point before restore Check for file system errors after recovery Resize restored drive - use this option if your new OS partition will be of a different size than the original. Partition type - primary. Set drive active for booting Restore original disk signature Restore MBR
I have now tried the restore about 4 times including using diffent disks and each time the disk is unbootable even after a Vista DVD Repair. The error seems to relate to winload.exe and however many times I try the repair it does not work so I guess there must have been a problem on the original drive for sometime. So much for valifated backups!