Could not restore the system on empty drive
Hello there.
Briefly: This evening I surprisingly couldn't restore my system from the image
Details: I use incremetal backups (full after each 7 increments, and delete older than 45 days).
Yesterday I had to recover the laptop using original vendor recovery media. So I created the latest increment version before that and copied everything to NAS and USB HDD.
After I've done everything I had to do with recovery media I completely formatted HDD and started recovering the system from ATIH images.
I selected restoring the hidden 100mb windows 7 area (the boot one), the system drive and the MBR.
But after it all restored - I couldn't boot up and the BIOS was telling me about MBR error.
I could fix it only using windows disk recovery mode, that fixed MBR and brought the system back to life.
So my question is: why could this happen? And how is it possible that restoring all the necessary partitions and MBR didn't give me the system to the state identical to when I made the image?
zerkins,
Check the link below. Depending upon your needs, item 3 or item 2 or item 1 should be applicable.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618
Item 3 if you simply need to update the drive c with a prior backup.
If bootup problems, you would probably need to use item 2 or item 3 but restore both boot and system partitions.
I do know how to restore, I use ATI for years and I haven't experienced any issues yet.
And of course I could follow the trivial steps in restore wizard
Checked that guides - yes, that is what exactly I've done (are there another alternatives actually?)
I know, my question looks fishy but I'm confused a lot for now - I've done that million times and it always led to success :-S
PS: yes, I restored both boot and MBR as well, and I checked "Recover disk signature"
So any ideas why it could happen in case that I have followed the steps from those guides?
Check my response to a similar Restore Query posted today in this forum at:
32309: Partition backup cannot be restored to the same partition I took the backup from
I'm seeing similarities between your Restore problems and mine, and maybe Samy Wees'. What irks me most is the unreliable KB tool. I now read in Samy's posting that he has been advised, by Chat Line support, of an ATIH2012 bug which misreads the "size" of TIB backup file contents. Yet I couldn't find any info on this problem in the KB file, as recently as a few days ago. So now I realise I am not alone in experiencing Restore hassles in this latest upgrade of ATI, and all of us have done lots of successful Restores with previous versions of ATI.
Cheers, Andrew.C
@Andrew Chodelski: yeah! This time I also changed the partition size from 73 to 75gb but didn't mention because forgot it (and though it's not important)