Trying to Restore Dynamic Disk - Boot Media Reboot when looking for destination
I've got an Asrock A75m-ITX system with 2 Crucial 512MB SSD's. The system is a Windows 7 Pro 32bit system with the SSD's setup as a Mirrored Dynamic disk. The Windows install is vanilla with only the Asrock drivers installed. The disks are synced up (according to Disk Manager), and I was able to backup both volumes (including the MBR, 100mb partition) using the ABR Boot Media onto an external USB drive.
The problem is my attempt to restore these volumes onto a new identical computer. Here's what's happening:
1. Boot up on new system with ABR boot media - OK
2. Select Restore and Choose the Vault to restore - OK
3. Select the MBR and Disk Volumes to restore (I get 4 check boxes, two MBRs and 2 Disks) - OK
4. ABR attempts to determine the destination for the restoration, and after a few moments, reboots - FAIL.
The boot media runs off a thumb drive, but I've also tried running from a DVD with the same results. I've tried the 32bit and 64bit versions of the ABR software from the boot media and get the same result, it just reboots after attempting to determine the destination.
I tried leaving the two new HD's as unallocated, I've also tried using the disk manager to create a mirrored dynamic volume, and get the same result.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dower
We are having a problem restoring simple mirrored disks also. After the restore process, the computer reboots and shows 'no OS found'.
I ran into the same problem. During the restore process I tried 2 things.
1st attempt:
1. Ensure both disks were unallocated and NOT in a Dynamic Group.
2. During restore process, chose the System Reserved Partition and the NTFS partition.
3. Left the defaults, and let the process go.
What I ended up with attempt 1, when looking in Disk Manager, A Foreign disk group was made of my 2 drives, the System Reserved was mirrored, but the main NTFS volume was made into Spanned disk on Drive 1, and on Drive 2, there was an additional Span, but was only a small volume... Not exactly what I wanted, and NOT what my original system looked like, and this one didn't boot either.
2nd attempt:
1. Made a Dynamic Disk group from my Unallocated drives. I made 2 Mirrored Volumes, a small System Reserved, and a main NTFS. All done in Disk Manager from the boot CD.
2. In the Recover section, chose the same System Reserved and NTFS volumes from my backup and left the defaults for restoring to my Dynamic Disk.
3. The end result looked ok in the Disk Manager when done. But during my boot attempt I got a blue screen.
Here's where it got sort of odd... I had to send that system off, so I moved to another system and tried this same thing... But in the end I got a blinking cursor after reboot... I reverted to recovering a basic disk I had earlier (not the backup of my dynamic disk). It did the same thing... It turns out on this system... the ABR didn't see the same primary disk as the BIOS... Not sure why... I restore to what ABR said was DISK 2, but it didn't work... I restored my basic volume to DISK 3, and it was ok... At this point, I manually re-created my mirrored dynamic disk...
I discovered this when I attempted to just reinstall the OS and put the Windows 7 CD in, and it saw that DISK 1 was partitioned, and NOT DISK 0.... I don't know why Windows saw the correct primary disk and not ABR...
Sadly, I'm out of time, so I'm not going to be able to re-try the dynamic mirror replication again for a while, so I've decided the safest course is to replicate my basic disk and manually re-create the mirror... Not ideal, since it takes an additional hour or so to re-sync.
Can we get some help from Acronis? We broke the Raid and got it to boot up but now we have 2 seperate disks.