Can't restore image
I know I have seen how to do this but I simply can't find the procedure to do it right.
I have a 512 SSD Drive C that I backed up an image of using TI2014 to a regular HD. I purchased a 1TB SSD and I would like to restore the image from the 512 backup on to the 1TB and use the 512 elsewhere.
I am using the TI2014 boot CD that I created using 2014. I completed the restore of the image to the 1TB drive from the backup. 2014 says it completed the restore correctly but I get a MBR missing when I try to boot from the 1TB drive.
I know I am missing a key step here but I can't figure out what it is.
Thanks Grover,
I figured out what was going on. The BIOS was trying to read the MBR from another hard disk in the computer. I disconnected all drives and booted with the new 1TB drive which worked fine except for one thing. It of course is only showing 512 GB instead of 1TB. Can you guide me to fix that problem??
You are indeed a hero.
John
Open Windows Disk Management and look at the 1 tb disk.
If the partition to be made larger is the touching the unallocated space,
you should be able to right click on the partition being made larger and use the opton "extend volumne."
If the partition to be made larger is not touching the unallocated space, then post a screen capture of your windows disk manager graphical view.
Hi Grover,
Worked like a champ!!! Thanks so much for your help. Things are working normally and I have a nice new 1TB drive working thanks to you.
All the best
John
Hi again Grover
All seems to be perfect except for one thing. I seem to have lost all audio since the restore. The Realtek speakers are not appearing in the Windows sound function. I have reinstalled the Realtek drivers (they installed ok), checked the BIOS etc. The audio was working perfectly prior to the restore.
I talked with EVGA tech support and they do not have any answers either. Any ideas?
Thanks
John
I answered my own question. I mistakenly selected Universal Restore in the restore procedure and that of course did not restore the audio settings. I ran the restore again without using Universal Restore, resized the partition as per Grover's instructions and all is working perfectly. A learning experience!!!
Hi Grover,
It's me again. I also had a problem with another computer that is backed up using TI2014 a couple of weeks ago. I restored an image to that computer with no problem. Today I noticed a strange thing. See attached screenshots:
Screenshot003.png shows the various backups to drives D, E, F, G and Q. Note that two of them are about 162 GB in size, two are about 240 GB and one is 78 GB. ALL of these backups were done with practically no changes to the computer of any significance whatsoever (i.e. no new software installed/removed etc.) The sizes of the backups displayed in screenshot003.png make no sense. Two of them are about 162 GB, two of them are 240 GB and one is 78 GB.
None of these displayed backups match the actual size of the backups on the individual drives backed up to which are shown in screenshots 001, 002, 004, 005 and 006. Those screenshots all show the backups as about 82 to 84 GB which are about right since the actual space occupied on Drive C is about 150 GB which after compression by the TI2014 backup procedure seems about right.
Any idea what is going on here? Maybe I should delete all of those jobs and redo them?? All of them are unscheduled and I run them as needed using the single version option.
Viewing your main menu, along the left margin is the purple vertical bars. Click the right arrow symbol to see additional information.
What you have is the system history file no longer matches. The tib files are no issues as their size are all very close to the same for each backup. What is at descrepancy is the listing of the folder contents.
Let's try to fix one and see if we can. Go into the task for Drive G.
We are going to simulate the starting commands of performing a Recovery. We are not really going to do a recovery but we want to program to believe we are. It main menu shows 240G so it thinks there are 3 files (of 80 each) when in reality, there is only the one as shown in your picture of G.
From inside the task for Drive G, Click the Recovery button.
Follow along and you shoulld get prompted to find some missing files.
Just keep clicking the ignore button (probably 2 times-maybe multipe times) until you get to the point where your next click will start a recover.
Of course, don't start a recovery and cancel out and recheck whether the task size has been corected to 84-85 GB of 1 file.
If that works, do the same for the other tasks.
If that does not succeed, then perform an individual validation on the file in drive G storage file and reveiw the results.
Let me know the results before we have to consider other corrective actions.
You absolutely nailed it. Worked perfectly. I have no idea what people on this forum would do without you.
I am very grateful for your help. I would have never figured out that procedure on my own.
All is good,
Thanks again
John
Glad to know it worked. This was not my idea but not sure whose so I cannot take or give the credit. I just remembered the solution which worked for him.