Invalid .v2i files SSR 2013

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I have decided to post this thread on this forum because after all it is a version of Ghost and I am NOT keen on the SSR forum.

I think this problem will be better exposed here because of the dedicated friends I know who operate on this forum will be interested in this problem.

 

I have posted a pic showing the invalid files and this seems to happen only when I am in trouble and need to re-image.

Once again SSR has let me down and it is a good job that I have Ghost 12 to recover with, unfortunately G12 doesn't support Win8.

 

This issue happens on my multi boot machine containing 6 O/Ss on one single drive (256GB SSD)

The drive is partitioned into 6 with XP, Vista, Win7 (1), Win7 (2), Win8 (1) and Win8 (2)

I have backed up this system from 08/05/13, 4 times, the first one backing up XP, Vista, Win7 1&2 with Ghost 12 and three times after installing Win8 on the remaining partitions with SSR 2013.

 

I had checked the file systems a few times and all was well, then, when I messed around with Partition Magic on XP, like I do sometimes, Vista and Win8 failed to boot and Vista resulted in a blue screen.

 

When I decided to re-image with the latest backup (23/05/13) it failed due to the invalid files both being on the Win8 partitions.

In the past when I got the invalid files the drive wasn't connected but this time the drive is connected, to elaborate on that will only complicate matters.

 

The remedy was to create all unallocated space again on the SSD and  "Clone" it using the Ghost 12 backup (08/05/13) with the 4 O/Ss and then add the two Win8 installations afterwards.

 

It is a great pity that when new software is developed that existing software is not carried forward into the new design because if it weren't for Ghost 12 I would have been in big trouble. My friends here are well aware of my support for the very reliable and easy to use Ghost 12.

 

I don't know what causes these .v2i  files to become invalid, I hope the team read this and investigate it further, it may be down to multi booting I don't know but it sure wants sorting out.

 

Sorry I can't expand the image to show all 6 O/Ss it is not possible at this point in time.

 

Deric

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Brian_K wrote:

Deric,

 

Can you post an image of your Disk Management or a link to one you have posted in the past? I mainly want to see the Disk showing the 6 OS.

 

Which partition contains SSR?

 

Is it only the Win8 partitions that show Invalid Target drive?

 

From Windows, can you Verify TURNBERRY_C_Drive.v2i and TURNBERRY_E_Drive.v2i?

 

SSR is saying Invalid Target drive. Not Invalid files.

Brian,

I have posted two pics, one of disk management and one showing my latest backup now that all 6 O/Ss are on the SSD again.

Disk 0 shows the SSD.

Yes only the Win8 partitions.

I can't be positive but in the past all the files were varified but I couldn't use the two Win8 partitions to transfer or re-image.

I need to shut down now to enable my docking station to slip the backup drive in to check them all out and varify them.

back in a bit.

 

Deric

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Brian,

 

Both C: and E: verify ok and are valid files, I checked them from the recovery points on 23/05/13.

 

I also run backups on my GoFlex 1TB drive (USB) and I still got invalid files os target drives but I cleared them off last month.

The ones I have available to check out now are via the docking station (eSata connection) dated as follows 09/05/13, 11/05/13 and 23/05/13.

All three recovery points show the Invalid files or Invalid target drives, I don't think for one minute that the problem is with the external drives because as you will be able to see when the pics are approved my latest backup is ok all valid.

It's late for me now, I will follow it up tomorrow.

 

Deric

 

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Deric,

 

That's good. Your .v2i recovery points are OK.

 

Can you boot into both Win8? Even though SSR is reporting Invalid drive?

 

Can you post a partinfo?

 

How did you create the partitions for your various OS? Partition Magic? Disk Management? Install disk? etc?

 

Again, this has nothing to do with your recovery points.

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DStain wrote:
unfortunately G12 doesn't support Win8.

Not quite true. You can use a Ghost 12 recovery CD to restore a SSR 2013 image of Win8 64-bit. I just did it.

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I have decided to post this thread on this forum because after all it is a version of Ghost and I am NOT keen on the SSR forum.

I think this problem will be better exposed here because of the dedicated friends I know who operate on this forum will be interested in this problem.

 

I have posted a pic showing the invalid files and this seems to happen only when I am in trouble and need to re-image.

Once again SSR has let me down and it is a good job that I have Ghost 12 to recover with, unfortunately G12 doesn't support Win8.

 

This issue happens on my multi boot machine containing 6 O/Ss on one single drive (256GB SSD)

The drive is partitioned into 6 with XP, Vista, Win7 (1), Win7 (2), Win8 (1) and Win8 (2)

I have backed up this system from 08/05/13, 4 times, the first one backing up XP, Vista, Win7 1&2 with Ghost 12 and three times after installing Win8 on the remaining partitions with SSR 2013.

 

I had checked the file systems a few times and all was well, then, when I messed around with Partition Magic on XP, like I do sometimes, Vista and Win8 failed to boot and Vista resulted in a blue screen.

 

When I decided to re-image with the latest backup (23/05/13) it failed due to the invalid files both being on the Win8 partitions.

In the past when I got the invalid files the drive wasn't connected but this time the drive is connected, to elaborate on that will only complicate matters.

 

The remedy was to create all unallocated space again on the SSD and  "Clone" it using the Ghost 12 backup (08/05/13) with the 4 O/Ss and then add the two Win8 installations afterwards.

 

It is a great pity that when new software is developed that existing software is not carried forward into the new design because if it weren't for Ghost 12 I would have been in big trouble. My friends here are well aware of my support for the very reliable and easy to use Ghost 12.

 

I don't know what causes these .v2i  files to become invalid, I hope the team read this and investigate it further, it may be down to multi booting I don't know but it sure wants sorting out.

 

Sorry I can't expand the image to show all 6 O/Ss it is not possible at this point in time.

 

Deric

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Deric,

 

re The Recover My Computer Wizard....

 

In May your OS are on Disk 2.

 

In June your OS are on Disk 1.

 

Any idea why? Were you booting Ghost from a USB FD in May? Maybe the Invalid Target drive is related to the drive swap????

 

In June there are no Invalid Target drives.

 

 

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I think the "invalid" target drive is because the windows 8 partitions (45GB) have the 36GB partitions set as the destination.

The target is invalid because they are too small.

 

Note that the partitions are listed in different orders between message 1 and message 2

 

If you can get back to the screen in message 1 Deric, click the edit button and make a note of what targets the partitions are set to recover in.

 

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Brian_K wrote:
DStain wrote:
unfortunately G12 doesn't support Win8.

Not quite true. You can use a Ghost 12 recovery CD to restore a SSR 2013 image of Win8 64-bit. I just did it.

Brian, mine is 32 bit.

I take your point and will give it a try next week. Today is Father's day in the UK and we will be off later down to my youngest daughter's for dinner.

Driving will mean a restriction on the wine intake:smileyfrustrated:

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Brian_K wrote:

Deric,

 

 

How did you create the partitions for your various OS? Partition Magic? Disk Management? Install disk? etc?

 

Brian,

I always use disk management.

 

Deric

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DaveH wrote:

I think the "invalid" target drive is because the windows 8 partitions (45GB) have the 36GB partitions set as the destination.

The target is invalid because they are too small.

 

Note that the partitions are listed in different orders between message 1 and message 2

 

If you can get back to the screen in message 1 Deric, click the edit button and make a note of what targets the partitions are set to recover in.

 

Dave, Brian,

there is a bit to think about in what you both have said, bear with me and early next week I will try and answere your questions best I can, right now it is dinner at my daughters.

 

Deric

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Brian_K wrote:

Deric,

 

 

Can you boot into both Win8? Even though SSR is reporting Invalid drive?

 

 

 

Brian,

not quite sure what you mean,

when I tried a re-image in the past I couldn't boot into Win8 1 or 2 when it reports invalid.

I can now I have "cloned" the 4 O/Ss with G12 and installed both Win8s. I am up and running ok.

 

Deric

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DaveH wrote:

 

Note that the partitions are listed in different orders between message 1 and message 2

 

If you can get back to the screen in message 1 Deric, click the edit button and make a note of what targets the partitions are set to recover in.

 

Dave,

The different orders are due to SSR, I like to keep them in alphabetical order eg. C,D,E,F,G,H but SSR changes that,

as far as the partition sizes are concerned I split the unallocated space on the SSD exactly in half this time at 44.7 GB.

I will get back to you both on this one, I really must go now.

 

Deric

 

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Both screenshots are of the same "recover my computer wizzard" from the SSR recovery disk.

But you will notice that they both have the images to recover listed in a different order.

The first one shows both windows 8 partitions on top with "invalid" as the target.

 

The second screnshot I can only see one of the windows 8 partitions but the target is not invalid.

 

If you can get the listing to say invalid destination again, click the edit button and see if you can figure out why the destination is invalid.  I suspect that it is because it is set to restore to the wrong partition, one that is too small.

 

I also have no idea why they are listed differently in the 2 screenshots unless maybe you are selcting them differently between the 2 pictures, maybe one was "select by date" and another one was selected some other way.

 

Dave

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DaveH wrote:

Both screenshots are of the same "recover my computer wizzard" from the SSR recovery disk.

But you will notice that they both have the images to recover listed in a different order.

The first one shows both windows 8 partitions on top with "invalid" as the target.

 

The second screnshot I can only see one of the windows 8 partitions but the target is not invalid.

 

If you can get the listing to say invalid destination again, click the edit button and see if you can figure out why the destination is invalid.  I suspect that it is because it is set to restore to the wrong partition, one that is too small.

 

I also have no idea why they are listed differently in the 2 screenshots unless maybe you are selcting them differently between the 2 pictures, maybe one was "select by date" and another one was selected some other way.

 

Dave

Dave, the trouble is I can't show you all the partitions on the SSR screen because I can't resize it.

I showed two screen shots of the SSR screen one being the Invalid and the other being valid (which is the latest backup I did).

Later on I will try and set it out better now I have more time.

As far as the partition order is concerned SSR does that because I suspect it is Win 8 orintated if you see what I mean.

I always select them by date, the only change to that would be when I "clone" a drive and as you know the selection then is "file name".

 

I will get back to you both this afternoon.

 

Deric

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Deric,

 

There are still a few things you need to do for me when you get a chance.

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This issue happens on my multi boot machine containing 6 O/Ss on one single drive (256GB SSD)

 

I always use disk management.

 

How do you get 2048 sector aligned partitiions on your SSD if you are using WinXP Disk Management?

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Brian_K wrote:

Deric,

 

There are still a few things you need to do for me when you get a chance.

Brian,

I have gone blank, how do I find Partinfo

Deric

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Brian_K wrote:

This issue happens on my multi boot machine containing 6 O/Ss on one single drive (256GB SSD)

 

I always use disk management.

 

How do you get 2048 sector aligned partitiions on your SSD if you are using WinXP Disk Management?

Brian,

I tend to use Win7 to run disk management I haven't got a clue how I get 2048 sector aligned partitions.

 

Deric

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Brian_K wrote:

Deric,

 

 

In June your OS are on Disk 1.

 

Any idea why? Were you booting Ghost from a USB FD in May? Maybe the Invalid Target drive is related to the drive swap????

 

In June there are no Invalid Target drives.

 

 

Brian,

All the recovery points are on my backup Drive 1 I have in the past used my GoFlex drive for some backups but the faulty ones I have cleared off so this thread will only be concerning the backups on Backup drive 1 located in the docking station, the reason for that is that it is faster.

I am going to post a series of pics next but, so we don't get confused I will post them individually.

 

Deric