Question about restore using boot CD built with universal kit on 6-29-16 from Acronis account.
Bought a new WD MyBook 4TB and been testing it out. Wanted to make sure the WD worked as well as my Toshiba 1TB. I did an image of my Windoes 7 C: disk. Then did boot with CD universal downloaded from Acronis under myaccount. It found my new WD 4TB drive and I decided to do a file/folder recovery of one folder to another location (actually option to restore in original place was grayed out).
I selected Acronis True Image after boot from CD, there were other options like Universal (didn't know what that was). I selected a directory to restore to C:/jer, then I selected the directory C:/Canon from backup to restore, that contains one file and one folder. So what I expected to find after restore was c:/jer/canon wich contains one folder and one file. Restore ran, but did not create c:/canon under c:/jer, it did restore the one folder and one file that was under c:/canon.
I don't know if I am having a brain fart or what, but seems that should wotk like I planed, should build the folder under the destination and not just content of the folder???
Did get brave and after creating image using reflect and Acronis full images on old Toshiba and on new W. D. MyBook, did a boot from Acronis CD and did a complete restore to my c: drive and all went well. I did select Acronis True Image after boot, not sure what the Universal Restore does?
I am on Windows 7 64 bit, Dell Optiples 3040.


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Thanks, I also think I must have taken a wrong turn. Also seems that the option to restore in original location shouldn't have been grayed out. Will read your link and test again. I always test out things when getting new hardware/software, don't want to be testing/debugging when actually having problems. Been using Acronis since around 2003, use to get free software from Acronis for finding bugs, but got tired of that.
This WD drive has a password, if I set a password will the CD boot of Linux have an issue? In Windows I have to run a WD utility to enter password before accessing WD drive. Not sure what would happen if trying to access the WD drive when password set and booted from Linux recovery CD. Then if I did set a password, house burned down, WD was in firesafe, I would have to download WD password utility on new computer to gain access. GUess I could have WD utility on thumb drive in firesafe. Password may be more problem than I want.
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Jer, if your WD drive needs a special Windows utility program to unlock the password protected drive then this will cause a problem if you use the Acronis linux based Rescue Media unless WD provide an equivalent Linux utility to do the same?
The alternative approach is to create the Windows PE version of the Acronis Rescue Media and include the WD unlock program on the USB media - see the MVP Tool - Custom ATI WinPE Builder link in my signature which would allow you to do this very easily.
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Thought about trying that Windows PE version of the Acronis Rescue Media, but the one I have works. Someday it might come in handy, may give that build a try. In Windows 7 is AIK the same as ADK which the instructions call for, I would need to download as I doubt this Dell came with it loaded.
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Jer, yes AIK is the older name for what is now called ADK. It is very doubtful that you would already have this installed. The easiest way to check is simply to launch the Acronis Media Builder Tool then take the Windows PE media option - ATIH will direct you to the appropriate AIK / ADK download page for your version of Windows.
The download is over 3GB but when you come to install, you only need to select the top 3 options from the menu that is shown, leave all the rest of the options deselected.
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Thanks, I launched the Windows PE media builder tool and it directed me to Microsoft and downloaded a small file around 1MB. Then when you exec it, I get a 6GB plus file it wants to download, except I get a prompt hat says:
Install the Windows Assessment and Development Kit- Windows 10 to this computer
After that just browse options or download for another computer. I canceled as I don't want Windows 10, I am on Windows 7.
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Jer, you can still use the Windows 10 ADK even for your Windows 7 system, it will only be used for the WinPE media creation so although it may be a 6GB download, you only need the top 3 options when installing.
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Okay, thanks it is downloading now. Should I delete the windows kit after making Win PE media?
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That should be fine to delete once you have installed the ADK components. If you uninstall the ADK then you won't be able to update the WinPE media as /when needing to do so.
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Okay, for now I won't uninstall. It downloaded and I assume I tell acronis I want the ISO image? I hope not to ever need this as the CD has always worked for me, but no harm in being a little OCD and have a backup plan.
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Jer, my personal preference is to use USB sticks for the rescue media rather than using CD's - this is a lot more flexible in terms of being able to update the media for any changes or new device drivers etc, plus a lot of systems are easier to boot from USB than CD these days.
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Sorry brain going dead, been working on leaking faucet drain, trouble doing two things at once. Running advance batch from Acronis MVP Google Drive now.
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Well it ran pretty well, when asked if I wanted USB drive, I said yes and had a 64GB NTSF blank in as F:, script gave error failed F: 2147212243
Then it asked if wanted cd/dvd, I said yes and all went well, even though it warned it might not. Not sure why USB didn't work, just doubled checked it is NTSF and empty, is in a USB 3.0 port.
Now I need to figure out how to add Western Digital into it. I thought about when it asked for drivers, but these are applications, not drivers.
I was running as administrator.
It must have cleaned up things under appdata/local/temp..................
Also, said it build file at c:\ATI PE which if was there is not anymore.
CD created did boot to Windows and did restore one file, still must be doing something wrong as I put checkmark on folder with one file and still got the file and not folder.
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Jer, the USB stick issue is an easy one to answer - the USB stick has to be FAT32 formatted and cannot be greater in size than 32GB - see KB 58108: Acronis products: using USB sticks with more than 32GB capacity
When you downloaded the zip file, where did you unzip it to? For myself, I just put it in the root of drive C: so that I have a folder there named MVP_ATIPEBuilder_v99 which then has a number of sub-folders where different data is stored, so there is one for ISO and another for Drivers etc.
Once you have the USB created you should be able to copy the WD unlock program to it assuming that this is a standalone program that doesn't need to be installed to be used.
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I unziped to c:/ATI PE Build and now I see that MVP_ATIPEBuilder_v99 is under it. I give the USB a try tomorrow, have to look at DVD and see how much space it took. I know I have a spare 64GB 2GB and a 1GB laying around. I just finished mowing 5.03 acres and am wore out, maybe I can catch the basketball game, don't really care who wins?
Thank you for your help and for working with the bat file to get the PE build.
Jerry
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I rerun the batch file and created a USB drive using FAT 32 1GB, only used 349MB of the 1BG.
I notice during the build it wants approval to overrite c:\ATI PE Build\MVP_ATIBUILDER_V99............................. and another, finely get option for ALL which I take. Question is I do not find c:\ATI PE Build anywhere and I do have checked to look at all systems files etc. I know they have to be there since it asks to overwrite. I always felt I have a good grasp of the directory structure, even a search doesn't find them, must be something I have forgot or just don't know?
Should I have had the WD drive connected during build?
I will load the WD software on the USB I created later, you are suppose to exec it to load on system, don't know if that will work on the BOOT from USB, but not that important as I don't lock it anyway.
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Moved the WD executable security to the PE USB drive and was able to execute it from there just fine. When actually booting from the USB and using explore to find the same executable, got error: to find version for PC, check with software publisher.
Restart doesn't work when booted from USB PE, but shutdown does work.
Not complaining, just explaining my testing and trials of something new to me.
Also, had to boot UEFI, someday I am going to have to study up on that UEFI junk, I dislike having things change, I think it is old age and the many years of putting up with being system software tech for IBM mainframes. I done enough change, I just barely got into using wired program boards to duplicate punched cards, the wiring was actually the programming. A lot changed from there to 2004 when I retired.
Had a heck of a time booting my laptop windows 10 from CD, all to do with the BIOS and UEFI vs legacy!!! I am rambling, sorry.
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Restart is simply running "Wpeutil Reboot" which is a winpe command. It restarts fine for me. Shutdown is doing the same but with "Wpeutil shutdown". There's no reason restart shouldn't work since they are using the same embedded wpeutil.
Winpe doesn't normally offer these buttons, so all we've done is bade a .bat script to put those commands and give it a shortcut so we can give it a pretty icon.
The overwrite you saw on C: is because you had an existing .wim and/or .iso from a previous run. Each time you run it, it needs to recreate them so asks if you want to overwrite the old ones. You can rename or move the old ones if you want to keep multiple versions of the .wim or .iso file.
For the WD software...
WinPE is strictly 32 or 64 bit. In a full-blown 64-bit OS, you can run 32 or 64-bit apps - not the case in WinPE since it's so stripped down by microsoft and does not have the Wow64 association to allow 32bit apps to run in a 64-bit winPE. I suspect yoru WD software is actually 32-bit. You could create 32-bint WinPE and it would run. However, 32-bit WinPE on a 64-bit machine can only be run in legacy mode. If you have a UEFI insalled OS, you don't want to be in legacy mode. If you need/want legacy mode, it really depends if your bios supports it, if you have csm\legacy enabled, if you have disabled secure boot and if you specifically pick legacy mode after that. Each bios is different so these settings vary from system to system and not all systems allow UEFI systems to enable legacy mode.
I'd give up the encrypted WD drive for storing backups - it's not going ot be reliable for you when you need them. Use a regular drive, but encrypt the backup files by using Acronis to password protect the backup files using 256-bit AES encryption.
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