I screwed up my backup restore
So I reinstalled windows 10 pro 64 and performed a restore from my Acronis backup I made. I choose the folders without the partition or disk boot thinking it would go to the root. It took about 8 hours to restore from a ESATA drive and afterwards I found I must of did it wrong. I see my restore listed as a subfolder of the new C drive, like this
Local Drive C
>Drive C
I has all of my files. Can I fix this situation? Could I move them to the correct position or do I need to erase them and try to restore again? Seems that my version of ATI doesn't look like the screen in the section section. I thought I selected the restore to go to the root of drive C, but I guess not.
Thanks for the help.
Danny
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Steve.... Thanks for the reply. My issue was I lost my windows boot manager and couldn't boot the drive. So the 1st time I did a restore I did the whole partition and everything, then I couldn't boot again. So I wiped the disk and fresh installed win 10 pro 64 then tried to restore the folders and files but somehow did it wrong. So I'm trying to figure what I need to do to fix my screw up. I did use the ATI rescue disk to boot from. I was hoping that by restoring the everything but the partition I would be back in business.
I did the backup from the rescue disk.
Am I wrong in my thinking that I could restore the drive except for the partition and be good?
Also should it have taken that long to restore 400gb, 8 hours?
Thanks
Danny
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Danny, is you backup you are using for the restore a full disk & partitions backup image?
If yes, then depending on the BIOS mode used by your system, the Windows Boot Manager data is normally stored in a hidden / system partition, not in the Windows C: partition.
When doing a disk recovery of the OS disk, all partitions need to be recovered together, which Acronis will do and create the partitions in the correct locations etc.
Please see forum topic: [How to] recover an entire disk backup - and in particular the attached PDF document which shows a step-by-step tutorial for doing this type of recovery / restore.
The time taken to perform a restore will depend on the size and type of data involved, but given your last restore created a new 'Drive C' folder in the root of the existing Drive C: then you were doing a files and folders restore which can take much longer due to the degree of folder nesting.
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Steve...Thanks for the reply. I'm now every confused. The original full backup I did was disk partition. I lost my windows boot manager in my BIOS and couldn't boot the drive. I tried to perform BOOTREC/fixmbr (unsuccessful) and BOOTREC/fixboot (it was successful) and BOOTREC/rebuildbcd (unsuccessful). Still could boot the drive. So I wipe the disk and booted from the ATI rescue disk and did an drive partition and file restore. It still wouldn't boot. So I wipe the disk again and installed win 10 pro 64 and tried to restore the files under the C drive and ended up with them as a separate folder as seen in my screen shot above. Apparently I'm dumb enough to think I knew what I was trying to accomplish. Some the screen shot online don't match the ATI rescue disk I see.
I'm still thinking that if I do a complete partition restore on a blank ssd that it will not boot as before.
THANKS again
Danny
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Danny, getting back to some basics here, how is your PC booting from the BIOS, what mode is being used? The choices here are UEFI with or without Secure Boot, or else Legacy / CSM for older systems.
The above is important because the same boot mode needs to be used when performing any disk recovery, especially if you have a UEFI boot system.
The Acronis rescue media is capable of being used in either UEFI or Legacy boot modes so as to accommodate the variety of systems being used.
Once the BIOS boot mode is understood, then the recovery done at a disk level should be successful if the backup image is valid / good.
In terms of rescue media, there are several choices available but the best choice will always be to use the 'Simple' version created on the PC being recovered, where this will include any required device drivers which are taken from the Windows Recovery Environment and used to create Windows PE (WinPE) rescue media.
KB 65508: Acronis True Image 2021: how to create bootable media
The steps needed to recover Windows using the 'Simple' WinPE rescue media is as shown in KB 65539: Acronis True Image 2021: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media
A disk level recovery will recreate all the partitions as contained in the backup image being used, which in turn includes the Windows Boot Configuration Data store used by the Windows Boot Manager, where this is stored in the EFI System Partition on UEFI systems, else in the System Reserved partition on Legacy systems (unless Windows was installed on the legacy system after a single NTFS partition had already been created, when the BCD is stored in a hidden / system folder on the C: partition).
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Steve.... THANKS for the reply and help. Originally with my 500Gb M.2 SSD was in Legacy. I performed a disk clone from it to a 1Tb NVMe M.2 SSD. it was successful. I resized the 1Tb to max size, then the boot manager went away. I able to get it back using BOOTREC/fixmbr and the system would restart OK. That's when I did the system backup. Then I completely shut down to put the case cover on and couldn't get to boot again. I did and system restore and then on bootup I got an error and won't load. That's when I wipe the disk and installed windows and tried to restore the files without the partition. I could only boot with the BIOS set to Legacy on the boot device.
Thanks again
Danny
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Danny, most NVMe M.2 drives are recommended to be used with UEFI / GPT and not used in Legacy / MBR mode - this may explain some of the difficulties you have seen in this topic.
Check on your fresh install of Windows 10 whether that is using UEFI or Legacy? You can use the msinfo32 command in Windows to check the BIOS mode value which is shown on the initial System Summary report in the right side panel.
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Steve.... THANKS for the help. I'm surprised that the msinfo32 shows Legacy, but the mobo BIOS shows UEFI. Since I have a second computer I'm using, I guess that I will wipe the disk and start over and just do a full system restore to a blank disk. I have nothing but time. My most important worry was using Quicken to pay my bills but I installed it on this computer. My data is on my cloud, so not much worry there, I just hated to have to reinstall a tone of programs.
THANKS AGAIN.
Danny
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Here's a dumb question, can I do a system backup up my old 500gb M.2 SATA SSD and restore it to my new 1tb NVMe SSD? Would I need to have a single formatted partition?
Thanks
Danny
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Danny, no such things as dumb questions here! Yes, you can do this type of backup & restore.
See topic: Steve migrate NVMe SSD where I documented the process that I used when upgrading my laptop NVMe SSD drive using Backup & Restore.
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Steve... THANKS for the reply and help. I just had that thought yesterday after reading some articles in the Acronis help section. Then it dawned on me that that seemed to be a much better way to transfer the system and data. Everything else I saw all talked about cloning using an USB Enclosure. I had watched a YouTube video by Carey Holzman that showed doing that with ATI.
So if I read your message correctly, do a backup with windows running, swapped the drives, and then boot from the ATI rescue disk and then select the backup from my usb drive to the new drive. Is the mini partition tool included with ATI or a separate program? Still a little confusing, but I'll trying to muddle though.
THANKS again
Danny
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Danny Shamoon wrote:...
So if I read your message correctly, do a backup with windows running, swapped the drives, and then boot from the ATI rescue disk and then select the backup from my usb drive to the new drive. Is the mini partition tool included with ATI or a separate program? Still a little confusing, but I'll trying to muddle though.
THANKS again
Danny
Danny, in Step 1 Steve is saying not to do the backup with Windows running but rather from the Rescue Media.
MiniTool Partition Wizard is a separate program. There is a free version that can be downloaded.
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