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I have TIH 2010 installed in Windows 7 x64. My OS has become corrupted, and MS has advised doing a repair install. I have a TI backup from before the problems started. I have never used the restore function, however. What is the correct procedure:

1) Run TIH from the current running OS and restore over top of it (same partition)

2) Create bootable restore media and restore the Win 7 C: partition over top of the installed OS. (How does it handle write permissions in this case??)

3) Or, Delete the Win 7 partition prior to restoring.

Please advise. Thanks.

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Hi Kaborka,

I use the boot cd, and restore 'over the top' - directly back to where it came from. Write permissions aren't an issue, anything that was there before is overwritten and will not exist after the restore.

Thanks for your reply. I wrote the recovery media to a USB stick, and it booted, but with error messages like "no such device" (they went by too fast to record them). I browsed to the .tib file I wanted to restore. The recovery program assigned different drive letters to my partitions than Win7 uses. My Win7 partition appeared as E:, not C:. I was about to click Proceed when I saw in the action summary "C: -> E:" Does that mean it's going to change the drive letter of the boot partition?

I canceled the restore because I don't know what it's going to do. My system is still usable, and I don't want to wreck it. What does the "C: -> E:" mean?

Kaborka,

Linux sees drive letters differently to Windows, however it will restore everything back as normal. The drive letters in a Windows system are held in registry.

Once you've restored it would be a good idea to give your drive/partitions meaningful names, as these won't change in Linux, so you are less likely to try and restore to the wrong drive.

Don't worry about the no device messages, unless at the end TI can't see or access your drives or your mouse or keyboard won't work.

Thanks, Colin. I will proceed with the restore. My "meaningful" partition names was what allowed me to navigate the reassigned drive letters.

I'll post later with the results.

The restore worked perfectly. I booted off a USB stick and restored my C partition from a USB hdd. 14GB took about 8 minutes. Great!