Ghost 15: Recovered image of C drive will not boot

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I recently had some issues with my computer after a lovely partition edit fail.  Windows is completely inaccessable.  I am able to boot to the Norton Ghost system recovery disc and recover my C drive.  When I recover my C: drive using the ghost image I made, It will start the Windows 7 loading animation and then give the message

 

Autocheck not found - bypassing autochk.exe

 

Followed by a bsod about session manager initialization failing and the system process terminating with code 0xc00003a

 

Do I need to do a clean install or is there a possible fix to this?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

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I attempted to use the windows install disc recovery option.  It fixed something with the bootup process but that did not change anything. 

 

I did not restore the system reserved paritition....or make an image of it....I only did the C drive.  Is that my problem? 

 

Also, in order to use my computer for now, I put a new install of Windows 7 on a different partition than the recovered image.  Figured I would give that info in case it mattered

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steviep wrote:

after a lovely partition edit fail.     

Can you let us know the details?

 

Which version of Win7?

 

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I recently had some issues with my computer after a lovely partition edit fail.  Windows is completely inaccessable.  I am able to boot to the Norton Ghost system recovery disc and recover my C drive.  When I recover my C: drive using the ghost image I made, It will start the Windows 7 loading animation and then give the message

 

Autocheck not found - bypassing autochk.exe

 

Followed by a bsod about session manager initialization failing and the system process terminating with code 0xc00003a

 

Do I need to do a clean install or is there a possible fix to this?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

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I deleted a dell recovery partition (it would recover me to vista) then extended my windows partition over it.  While extending the windows partition someone decided they wanted to use the computer and cancelled it.  Thats where the problem came up.  I had created an image the night before.

 

Its Windows 7 Home premium 64-bit.

 

 

 

 

 

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Which partitioning app were you using?

 

You should be able to recover. What partitions are on the HD now?

Do you want to get rid of the SRP? I  would .It's of little use to you as your Win7 doesn't support BitLocker.

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I dont care much about the SRP right now.  I just want to get my Windows backup up and running.  Then I might attempt to remove that.

 

I was using a GParted Llive CD to edit partitions.

 

Right now there is a 200 GB partition where I attempted to restore my image backup of windows and a 85 GB partition where I installed a clean copy of Windows 7 since I can not boot to the backup.

 

I wanted it to just be a 285 GB partition where I would load the backup but that didnt work as it gave me the BSoD I described above.

 

I have attempted to repair windows through the install disc but that will not work.  I am beginning to wonder if this has anything to do with deleting the Dell Restore Partition since that is the only thing that would have been changed.  Or maybe ghost failed at making the image.

 

 Thanks

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OK. The partition was damaged. When you restored Win7 into the damaged partition it remained damaged. You need to delete the partition and restore Win7 into unallocated space.

 

What I'd do is use the Ghost CD to backup your new Win7 OS. Then with your GParted CD, delete all partitions on the HD. Boot from the Ghost CD and restore your original Win7 image. When you try to boot the restored Win7 you will get a message about BootMgr is missing. Use this to fix it. Just as far as the end of the "Solution" section.

 

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=411

 

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I will try that and get back to you when I finish.

 

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Well after deleting all of my partitions and then restoring my backup image I still have the same problem.

 

Any other possible ideas of what to do?

 

edit: I also figured I would post this too. When booting after a BSoD it gives the option to launch startup repair.  It then gives a status of 0xc0000225 and says the boot selection failed because required device is inaccessible.

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Since you didn't backup the SRP, you are missing an important part. I wonder what would happen if you started from scratch with a Windows 7 install then restore your image to the Windows 7 partition (leaving the SRP alone). You may still have to run the startup repair, but I think it is worth a try.

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Also the stuff from the startup repair attempt.  It  could not repair the computer automatically

 

Problem Signature:

Event Name: StartupRepairOffline

Signature 1: 6.1.7600.16385

Signature 2: 6.1.7600.16385

Signature 3: unknown

Signature 4: 21201074

Signature 5: ExternalMedia

Signature 6: 7

Signature 7:NoRootCause

 

OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1

Locale ID: 1033

 

 

Also at   redk9258

I have tried that and it did not work.

 

Thanks

 

 

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Are you sure the restored partition is set active?

If you used the default settings it wouldn't be because it wasn't before when the image was made.

 

 

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The drive is set as bootable in GParted.  Also the windows 7 loading animation does show.   It just then goes to a black screen saying Autochk not found - bypassing autocheck

Then flashes to a BSoD that says

 

"stop:c000021a {fatal system error}
the session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc00003a {0x00000000,0x00000000}
The system is shut down"

 

Then restarts and loops that

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when you say the drive was made bootable in gparted,

Does that mean that you did not delete all partitions and restore the image into unallocated space?

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I did delete all partitions in GParted and tried to restore the image and none of the previous errors I have posted have changed.

 

Would going with a fresh install of windows and then recovering folder by folder with ghost work for recovering all of my programs,drivers, etc?

 

Figured it would be worth a shot to ask that since I can boot into a clean copy of Windows 7

 

 

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OK, good.

Thanks for answering that, I think it was an important step to rebuild the partition table.

 

Let me try playing around here until Brain gets back.

I could have sworn the win 7 repair could rebuild the missing boot folder and replace bootmgr.

I'm almost positive I have done that before.

 

 

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steviep,

 

That's no good!

 

On first boot after the restore, did you see a BootMgr is Missing error?

 

Did the image Verify OK?

 

When you restored did you choose something like this?

 

Verify recovery point before restore
Resize drive after recover (unallocated space only)
Partition type : Primary
Check for file system errors after recovery
Set drive active (for booting OS)

 

Did you resize the partition to fill the unallocated space or not? Just interested.

 

Can you try this..

 

Download BootIt NG. There is a one month trial usage. Unzip the file and make a boot CD.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm

 
 double click makedisk.exe, next
 dot in I accept the agreement, next
 dot in Mouse Support Enabled, next
 dot in VESA Video, next
 dot in Partition Work (Don't put a dot in Normal), next
 don't choose any Default Device Options, next
 leave Registration strings blank, next
 select your CD burner drive letter (you can use a CD-RW or a CD-R disc)
 Finish


Boot from the CD....

 
 the BootIt NG CD boots to the Work with Partitions window
 Using the radio buttons on the left side of the Work with Partitions window, select your HD
 Do you see * Errors Exist * at the top of the window and an E next your partition?

 

Select your OS partition and click Properties. What is in the File System field?

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Odd how you get the windows animation, I'm unable to get that until the system is fully repaired.

 

I had a version of  Windows 7 Starter edition installed in virtual PC and it had the SRP partition.

I booted to a PE disk and deleted the SRP and expanded the Windows partition into that free space.

I used this free program called Easeus partition manager because it was installed on my all freeware PE disk I made.

It took a long time to move everything, for some reason it dodn't want to just expand the partition. (it's a piece of junk).

 

It also wouldn't let me make the partition active, so I booted into partition wizzard iso and made it active

(should have used that in the first place).

 

So when I tried to boot I got the expected "BootMgr is missing" message.

 

Rather than tring the repair at that point I tried to see if I could get to the windows animation.

I booted to the PE disk and added bootmgr, then when I tried to boot windows I got this:

 

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8093/nobootfolder.jpg

 

Since I didn't backup the actual "Boot" folder, I added an incorrect one from another installation.

Trying to boot windows gave me the same error as above.

 

Then I booted back to my PE disk and deleted the boot folder and bootmgr and then booted to my windows 7 disk and did a repair (booting twice to the repair option).

The repair did indeed add the missing folder and bootmgr and the system then booted fine all the way to windows.

 

Dave

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I found something interesting but not very helpful.

 

I realized I didn't know where the animated logo was in windows 7.  With XP it is in the file ntoskrnl.exe and thats loaded very early in the boot.

 

Vista it's inside winload.exe.mui, but in windows 7 it's hidden inside a disguised .wim file inside the system32\bootres.dll file.  Very odd bitmap file that has hundreds of images in slightly different stages in a long strip, just like looking at a strip of movie film with a whole bunch of frames each changed slightly from the previous one.

 

Like I said, not very helpful but somehow your boot is getting along far enough to load files from the system folder.

Or, maybe another system folder.

 

Dave