I messed up restoring please help if you can
I have a windows 8 computer with two partitions. One seems to be for the OS, the other the 3 terrabyte storage...
I tried a recovery from disk, but made a mistake. Instead of recovering the OS to the OS partition, I recovered it to the other partition which was the data 3 terabyte. now i seems to have dual os on the two drives and this I didn't of course want...
To make matters worse I then tried to sort things out by using my recovery disk and just restoring the data partition from the original MyBackup recovery which was full ( not the disk one). The result was an unbootable disk! Currently I am using my wife's laptop and trying from recovery disk to recover again.
The disk mode is much easier then the other full backup mode, which I find impossible to work out as I kept getting messages like you can't copy onto self etc! I think all the letters changing has added to my confusion also.
One sure thing I won't try recovering just the 3 terabyte partition on its own! Any help is appreciated - Thanks in advance - Howie:)
Yes, I have a backup that includes all the partitions on my disk. I only bought the Dell computer a month ago and Windows 8 is preinstalled. I do have a single physical disk in the computer, a full disk and partition back up and also I have a disc mode back up. Thanks for your interest.
Yes, I have a backup that includes all the partitions on my disk. I only bought the Dell computer a month ago and Windows 8 is preinstalled. I do have a single physical disk in the computer, a full disk and partition back up and also I have a disc mode back up. Thanks for your interest.
Yes, I have a backup that includes all the partitions on my disk. I only bought the Dell computer a month ago and Windows 8 is preinstalled. I do have a single physical disk in the computer, a full disk and partition back up and also I have a disc mode back up. Thanks for your interest.
Do you have an mSata SSD installed? YOu can see this in the BIOS...
If not, it is pretty simple to restore each partition onto its original partition. YOu need to boot on the recovery CD. As you have seen, the recovery CD might show you drive letters that are different from Windows. For example, hidden partitions in Windows will have a drive letter on the recovery CD. DO NOT attempt to correct the drive letters. Just make sure you restore the right partition to the right partition by looking at the characteristics (label, size).
I'd be tempted to tell you to recover your entire disk, but I am still afraid there is a risk you included only the visible partitions (like C:\, D:\, but not the GPT recovery and system partitions)...
Thank you very much , I do appreciate your help.
I will try that now.
Note: if your computer doesn't boot on teh recovery CD, disable secure boot and UEFI boot in the BIOS, enable legacy boot. That should work.
Much obliged for your help guys:) I was able to boot again! I have found switching to Disk mode much easier then using the full disk and partition backup which frankly has been a nightmare for me...
Using full disk and partition backup all is fine, until I get to specify recover settings on a partition!
After click new locations (which I have to do as NEXT is greyed out at the bottom of the page), no matter what I do I cant get off that page and I end up having to click cancel as next remains greyed out...
Chose column options I have tended to ignore as that I don't understand.
I now disregard letters, as mentioned earlier and judge by the size, yet I can't seem to get past the section where I click new locations!
I cant seem to be able to make any changes. Quite probably I am missing something very simple but even reading the ? button is no help!
Your advice is much appreciated - Howie:)
When you restore a single partition, you have indicate what is the new location of the partition (that means indicate what is the destination of the data to be restored). This "new" location is the target partition. Then you have to specify certain partition attributes (primary partition, possibly active partition if you have a MBR based disk and the partition you are restoring is active). After that, click next and ATI can propose you to verify the layout of the partition (at that point you can resize the partition if resizing is supported on your type of disk).
Sorry for the late reply but I wasn't well for a few days - To be honest all I want to do is back all up and restore all in the easiest possible way. I don't want to change sizes or anything just restore exactly as it was before. For some reason disk mode seems easier in that there are less things to do, which for me being non techie suits well - Many thanks for your reply - Much appreciated - Howie:)
Yep. It is actually better to create a disk and partition backup through the disk mode, and simpler to restore the entire disk. Not always possible though because some users have huge amounts of data on their system disk, and many end up having to restore on smaller/bigger disks (in which case, controlling how ATI scales the partitions upon restoring can only be done restoring one partition after the other).