Restoring to a partiotioned drive?
I have a backup of a windows 7 drive witch was not partiotioned from the beggining (Except the 3 standard things, MBR/main partiotion and 100MB reserved for windows!), now I want to partiotion it and restore my windows 7 backup to the newely partiotioned drive.
However the problem is that when I select to restore the entire backuped drive, it does exactly that, it restores it back to one partition!
How can I restore to a partitioned drive without Acronis seting it back to one partiotion again?
Thanks!
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GroverH wrote:Your problem is the partition on the target drive. If I understand correctly, you want to restore your system onto a new disk and the target disk should be a duplicate of the old disk. The target disk would not contain anything that is not on the source disk.
If true,
then boot from the TI Recover CD and use the Add disk option to delete the partitions on the target disk so all data will be removed from the target disk and the disk will become totally unallocated.Once, this is done, then the whole target disk becomes unallocated and is open for the restore to receive the contents of the backup.
Checkmark the disk as to what should be restored and on the screen where you select the target disk, also checkmark the options "Recover Disk Signature".
Once you have used the Add disk option and removed the partitions, if you wish, you can simulate the restore and you will see what will is being prepared. It is test or simulation up to the point where you either press Cancel or Proceed. Click cancel if you do not want to proceed. The summary screen is the last screen and will indicate to you what actions are planned before the proceed button is engaged.
I think you missunderstood me, what I am trying to do is to repartition the target drive into a c: and a d: and then restore windows on the c: partition while keeping the d: partition intact.
The source drive had only a c: partition and the 100MB that is reserved for windows 7.
Hope that you understand what I am trying to say? English is not my native language, so I dont know how to better explain it! :-(
Thanks for helping!
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You can partition your disk before the restore.
For the restore, select only one partition at a time (NOT the entire disk; in particular, the MBR+track0 is NOT selected). This will allow you to restore each partition to the partition you want.
No need to restore the MBR+Track0 unless you have a reason to (eg if you have a multi boot system).
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Pat L wrote:You can partition your disk before the restore.
For the restore, select only one partition at a time (NOT the entire disk; in particular, the MBR+track0 is NOT selected). This will allow you to restore each partition to the partition you want.
No need to restore the MBR+Track0 unless you have a reason to (eg if you have a multi boot system).
Ok, so I tried to recover first the 100MB system reserved space, and then c:
But when I restart the system and try to boot I get the following error:
error: unknown filesystem.
grub rescue>
What am I doing wrong?
*Edit
I think the problem is that the recovery sees the 100MB system reserved partition as the c: partition!
Here is what I have tried so far, I go into windows install and I repatition my drive into a c: = 60GB d:= 300GB and the system makes another small partition of 100MB that it calls system reserved.
Ok, so then I go into Acronis and try to recover, I mark first the 100MB partition that Acronis thinks is the c: partition and I select it to go to the c: partition which is actuallt the small partition that is reserved by the system.
then Acronis chooses to make that partition active and primary, and I have no option to select it as a logical drive.
Then I restore the windows partition to the d: partition according to acronis, which can not be selected as a primary/active partition.
When I restart I then get the error message:
error: unknown filesystem.
grub rescue>
What can I do to correct this?
Thanks!
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Unless I have missed what you are tying to do, couldn't you restore the C drive and then use the windows disk manager to shrink the C drive and then create a new partition for D? Also there may be 3rd party partition managers that could do that as well.
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Zappa79 wrote:It looks like you have a multi boot system with the Grub loader installed? You will have to reinstall it to fix that issue.
error: unknown filesystem.
grub rescue>
I think the problem is that the recovery sees the 100MB system reserved partition as the c: partition!
When you run ATI from the CD, it shows you drive letters that may be different from Windows. In particular, it will give the system reserved a drive letter, whereas Windows won't. *ignore* the drive letters when you use ATI to browse: make sure to look at the partition/disks labels to select the right ones. Do not attempt to "fix" that drive letters situation.
Ok, so then I go into Acronis and try to recover, I mark first the 100MB partition that Acronis thinks is the c: partition
Ignore the drive letters you see. Look at the partition labels to match a partition to its destination.
then Acronis chooses to make that partition active and primary, and I have no option to select it as a logical drive.The system reserved has to be the active partition. Therefore it cannot be a logical partition. It has to be primary.
Then I restore the windows partition to the d: partition according to acronis, which can not be selected as a primary/active partition.If you didn't have a system reserved partition before, your C:\system partition was probably the active partition. If you want to use the system reserved partition, you will have to mark it active instead of the C:\system, and you will have to create the boot files inside the system reserved partition (or move them from C:\system). Then you will be able to delete the boot files from C:\system. Finally, you will use the Windows DVD installation to repair the startup of the computer. Once the computer boot normally into your restore Windows system, you can reinstall Grub loader if you have another OS installed.
Thanks!
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Pat L wrote:Zappa79 wrote:It looks like you have a multi boot system with the Grub loader installed? You will have to reinstall it to fix that issue.
error: unknown filesystem.
grub rescue>
I think the problem is that the recovery sees the 100MB system reserved partition as the c: partition!
When you run ATI from the CD, it shows you drive letters that may be different from Windows. In particular, it will give the system reserved a drive letter, whereas Windows won't. *ignore* the drive letters when you use ATI to browse: make sure to look at the partition/disks labels to select the right ones. Do not attempt to "fix" that drive letters situation.
Ok, so then I go into Acronis and try to recover, I mark first the 100MB partition that Acronis thinks is the c: partition
Ignore the drive letters you see. Look at the partition labels to match a partition to its destination.
then Acronis chooses to make that partition active and primary, and I have no option to select it as a logical drive.The system reserved has to be the active partition. Therefore it cannot be a logical partition. It has to be primary.
Then I restore the windows partition to the d: partition according to acronis, which can not be selected as a primary/active partition.If you didn't have a system reserved partition before, your C:\system partition was probably the active partition. If you want to use the system reserved partition, you will have to mark it active instead of the C:\system, and you will have to create the boot files inside the system reserved partition (or move them from C:\system). Then you will be able to delete the boot files from C:\system. Finally, you will use the Windows DVD installation to repair the startup of the computer. Once the computer boot normally into your restore Windows system, you can reinstall Grub loader if you have another OS installed.
Thanks!
I dont have a multiboot system, only windows 7!
I have followed your instructions and marked the 100MB partition as primary/active and then restored windows on the d: partition, which should have been c: if Acronis had not the small 100MB partition as the c:.
then I rebooted with the windows 7 dvd and selected to repair, but again when I reboot I get the same error as before:
error: unknown filesystem.
grub rescue>
*edit
I decided to see what the partitions look like in the windows install DVD and to me it looks very wrong, here is the partitions according how windows install sees them:
Disk 0 Partition 1: Reserved by system Total space 100MB Free space 71 MB
Disk 0 Partition 2: 58.5 GB (Here I want windows to be installed!) Free space 23.6 GB
Disk 0 Partition 3: 239.5 GB (This is what I want to be the d: partition!) Free space 239.4
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Ok so I tried a new combination and I got one step further.
I repartitioned the drive in windows install, then I went back into Acronis and selected to restore one partition at the time, but this time I chose to restore the MBR part too. Then I rebooted and now windows begins booting, and I can see the windows logo.
But then the system halts and gives the following error:
autochk program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK
After that the system reboots.
So then I went in and tried the repair function on the windows DVD and rebooted again, but again the same problem.
What am I still missing?
Should I repair in a special way? is there a command that is missing somewhere?
I am sure that some of you will know how to solve this problem!
Thanks in advance!
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Repeat the Windows DVD repair option at least 5 more times. This function only repairs one thing per boot so if there are multiple things wrong, then multiple repair boots are needed.
The repair option will repair the mbr problem and additionally replace the boot files putting them into the proper folder. If after repairs, you are still having some boot issues, then even repeat the repair function again.
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Does this help?
http://www.pchell.com/support/autochknotfound.shtml
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GroverH wrote:Repeat the Windows DVD repair option at least 5 more times. This function only repairs one thing per boot so if there are multiple things wrong, then multiple repair boots are needed.
The repair option will repair the mbr problem and additionally replace the boot files putting them into the proper folder. If after repairs, you are still having some boot issues, then even repeat the repair function again.
Well the problem is that it was only capable of repairing the boot one time, now every time I attempt to repair again I get an error saying that windows can not repair this problem, and then I get the option to send error report to Microsoft!
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Pat L wrote:Does this help?
http://www.pchell.com/support/autochknotfound.shtml
The partition is not hidden either! So that didnt help! :-(
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The fact that you have
error: unknown filesystem.
>grub rescue
Indicates that at one point of time you have installed Linux on your system or disk and the boot loader code is Grub.
Anyway, I don't think this is related to your current issue.
Does this article help? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913502
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