Please Help!!!!! I can't recover with my disk image :(
I am having a serious issue I will try to explain in short.
I cannot recover my C:\Drive with one of my image backups on my secondary drive :(
I have three Acronis Backup images but one fails to recover the my partitioned C;\Drive when I choose the recovery wizard.
I have three backup images on my secondary D:\Drive when I perform the recovery wizard with two out of three images they are successful at recovering my C:\Drive but when I choose my other disk image it fails after the Acronis boot sequence is completed an says "Boot Manager Is Missing" an I have too reinstall windows all over again.
Normally when I perform my recovery task with my disk images that are working I select the disk image I want to recover from, then a windows pops up saying "locking my D:\Drive an USB Drive" then another window pops up giving me the option too choose what partition too recover too, then I boot an the recovery operation completes as it should.
But when I try to recovery with the other disk image, I select the disk image an a windows does not pop up saying "locking my D:\Drive an USB Drive" plus no window pops up giving me the option to what drive I would like to recover my data too, like I have explained above.
It just keeps saying "Specify Recovery Settings Of Partition C" when I choose "New Location" an proceed with my C:Drive, I reboot, Acronis recovery mode is initiated but fails on next boot saying "Boot Manager Is Missing" an I have to install windows all over again.
Can someone please help me, I have till late tonight to try to resolve this problem or else I am just going to have to do a clean installation of my Windows O.S. ( which was present on my image disk with this problem ) an delete my previous image disk. :(
Please I sincerely need help!!!!!!
Try to perform recover using acronis bootable disk. "Boot Manager Is Missing" is quite a common problem. Could it be that the image you try to recover had a 100 mb boot partition that was not backed up, so that 'main' system partition won't boot alone?
The disk image which is giving me problems is over 7GB in size an unfortunately I have no disc media too make a bootable disc image :( I was hoping there would be some kinda of recovery method using the Acronis image disk mounting tool but when I select that feature I see no way too initiate any recovery method that way? "Could it be that the image you try to recover had a 100 mb boot partition that was not backed up" That sounds strongly like the case, but I don't see how I created the disk image without no boot sequences, I usually create backups the same way as I would usually do an things work out fine. :( thing is I am currently working from one of my backup O.S. an the the disk image with the is my main O.S. with all my programs an such installed on it, if I am unable too restore that disk image I will have too do a clean O.S. install an reinstall my programs all over again. This really sux!!!!!!!! :(
image disk mounting tool
It will create another drive with a letter in your system that will allow you to access data withing your backup as if they were located on a regular disk - from windows explorer, open them in programs, etc. It will not modify data on your exising physical disks.
If other backups were made on the same system and they work, the idea about missing 100 mb partition must be wrong. Are there (both of them hidden and system, not visible in explorer by default) 'boot' folder and 'bootmgr' file in the root of C: of your live system and the root of C: of the 'mounted' system?
And by the way, please remove my e-mail you quoted. Forum substitutes it for name...
image disk mounting tool
image disk mounting toolIt will create another drive with a letter in your system that will allow you to access data withing your backup as if they were located on a regular disk - from windows explorer, open them in programs, etc. It will not modify data on your exising physical disks.
Yeah...kinda figured out what the mount feature was about when I played with it for awhile, it just let's you access the image not restore with the mount feature. Well I guess I am at the end of my rope, clock is ticking was hoping to find a solution for this issue here, but I guess not?!?! As soon as I turn in as of 11:30PM or 12:00AM I am just going to do a proper reinstall an try to backup my O.S. correctly this time?
Thanx "zuchodrig" for your insight, unless someone else chimes in on this topic before my deadline then there is no reason to respond anymore.
Thank you to those that have replied an too those that would have.
If other backups were made on the same system and they work, the idea about missing 100 mb partition must be wrong. Are there (both of them hidden and system, not visible in explorer by default) 'boot' folder and 'bootmgr' file in the root of C: of your live system and the root of C: of the 'mounted' system?
Well like I said 2 out of the 3 backups that I have work, with the exclusion of one. Don't know how this 100MB boot partition ( which I am sure that is the case ) was not included in the backup when I created it, like I mentioned before....sad this is that it was my primary O.S. that I was using before I decided to browse throught my other backups. Now it's unaccessible :(
And by the way, please remove my e-mail you quoted. Forum substitutes it for name...
You got it ;) this forum really needs too be improved :)