CHKDSK won't run after OS partition restore
I just used Acronis TI Home 2012 to restore the Windows 7 Ultimate partition after replacing a failed hard drive. Now the system seems to run fine but when I schedule a chkdsk at boot time it doesn't run. I just see the Dell logo screen and then Windows loads. CHKDSK ran before the restore so I'm wondering if Acronis altered anything what would keep it from running. Also F8 doesn't bring up the Safe Mode menu.
Thanks for any help with this.
Michael
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Michael,
Check this thread. http://forum.acronis.com/forum/6758
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You could boot up to your Windows 7 installation disk and use the System Recovery Tool / Repair Your Computer options and choose Startup Repair. If this doesn't work for you, there are other solutions that can be tried.
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Michael,
If you restored only your partition C onto a new blank disk, you restore may not have included all partitions which were part of your old drive. Do you have any backups which were full and complete backups which included all partitions on the disk?
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Grover,
I had replaced the faulty drive with a Dell factory image drive which contained all partitions (OS, Recovery etc as well as MBR). I had not realized that selecting all partitions when backing up was not the same as "Disk at once" so when restoring I was confused by having to assign partitions as the restore dialog wouldn't let me select one partition... FAT which I don't know what Dell uses that for. So I only restored the OS partition. When restoring on my first attempt Acronis mentioned something about replacing one GUID with another but I don't recall either. On subsequent recovery passes it said something about changing an ID from 0 to 128. The reason for restoring in multiple passes was because the first restore ended with a corrupt file error but Acronis didn't indicate which of the incremental files was corrupt. So I restored each tib consecutively but they all restored so I don't know what the corrupt file error was all about.
Mark Wharton's thread seems to be on the right track but he's no longer actively reviewing and coaching on people's BCDEdit outputs and I'm not familiar enough with system objects to know which entries for which to edit GUIDs in the registry.
I could go back and restore all partitions with matching best guess. I would restore factory image ( I did back that up Disk at Once) first to see if I can CHKDSK and F8 into Safe mode. Then for the all partition restore I could perhaps do an Add disk to remove all partitions? Not sure how to proceed here.
Thanks!
Michael
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Thanks James. The system is from Dell so no Windows Installation Disk, only Factory Image recovery disk. Do you think one of the online Windows 7 PE disks would work here?
Thanks!
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What version of Windows 7 are you running, Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate, 32 bit or 64 bit? What service pack?
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Windows x64 Ultimate, no SP installed.
Thanks.
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If I am understanding you correctly, you have the capability to make your machine factory fresh. If yes, and your backup was one without any hardware changes, you should be able to restore C only from the backup overtop the fresh install and put your machine back to same when you did the backup. Item #3 at this link would illustrate how.
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Negative Grover. The hard drive failed and was replaced with a new factory image drive which is 2 years newer so may not have the partitions in the same sequence etc. I restored the OS partition from backups to the OS partition on the new factory drive. I was confused because I had been backing up all partitions but hadn't seen the link for complete disk backup. When I went to restore the listed partitions sequence on my backup didn't match the sequence on the HD and one of the partitions was not selectable (a DELL FAT partition, no idea what it is). So I wasn't sure how to match up partitions, hence my selection of OS partition only.
I think this may have left some partition GUIDs mismatched but I don't know how to correct them with BCDEdit.
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Michael,
You should be able to create a Windows 7 recovery disk from within Windows. That would have the System Repair options you could try.
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Thanks James. After my final pass at restoring, creating all partitions manually the system now allows me to go into F8 menu and choose Repair. I can run a chkdsk manually from the command promptI will pursue the user friendly method using Tools from the drive properties menu by posting on the TechNet Windows 7 forms.
Thanks for all your help!
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Please let us know what you find out about restoring the chkdsk functionality when you get a working solution so that others can benefit as well. Glad to hear you are up and running again.
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