getting stuck again with recovery
hello,
i am really confused with the recovery-process.
i have a non-stop-back from 2 disks (c, e) on a third disk, S. so far so good.
after having destroyed my boot-disk with try&decide (yes! :-( it got stuck forever after i said i want to accept all changes) i am sitting there and try to recover from it:
- the drive-letter-problem: okay, found something here in the forum and hope windows will manage that after booting (TI swaps C and E)
- but after doing something for less than 2 minutes TI restarts the PC, booting says "missing the MBR" - this MBR belongs to systemdisk C which i recover, too
the recovery-process should be automatic. there seem to be many traps for!
hope you can help me, it should be possible with a full-nonstop-backup!
thx
thomas
okay, with TI from cd the drive-letter problem is not evident - C = C and E=E. nice.
but after recovering i only get "bootmgr is missing. press ctrl-alt-del). why is this so complicated???
dear community,
now I have the bootmanager-situation: system recovered but useless because of "missing bootmgr, press ctrl-alt-del".
my windows7-CD doesnt help because it doesnt "see" any windows-installation..
can anyone give me a hint where i could start again or what i should try/read?
thx
thomas
Thomas,
Does your system have 2 partitions (system reserved - hidden partition -, and system)?
You can check this with the Windows 7 installation CD and use DISKPART from the command line prompt.
In this case, system reserved should be System, Active, Primary and your system partition should be Boot, Primary.
If you have only one system partition, it should be System, Boot, Active, Primary.
hi and thanks,
what can i say, after beeing "blind" i see the real problem: the recovery fails as a whole!
what i do:
- boot from recovery CD (TI 2011 home)
- choose "disc recovery"
- checking the last nonstop-archive, everything is there and fine (about 50GB)
- C is the goal, system and active
- recovery runs for about 2 minutes, then pc reboots
- and now: C is not recovered, only one directory (program-data) is there
WTF???
at least it is okay that the boot-process fails :-(
thanks
thomas
2mn for 50GB, something is going wrong and you can see it in the results.
Can you validate the backup from the CD? That would be a good sign.
Are you sure you are recovering to the right partition? Sometimes some people get confused because the recovery CD doesn't show the same letters as in Windows. You have to double check the partitions labels and sizes...
2mn for 50GB, something is going wrong and you can see it in the results.
Can you validate the backup from the CD? That would be a good sign.
Are you sure you are recovering to the right partition? Sometimes some people get confused because the recovery CD doesn't show the same letters as in Windows. You have to double check the partitions labels and sizes...
hello,
i am recovering to the right disk, it is easy to see the difference, one is 250gb, the other is 1,8TB :-)
there is no option for validation, can that be true?
Yes it can be true, I know there is no validation for NSB from Windows, but I didn't recall from the top of my head from the recovery CD.
OK. With the size of the backup,we have to assume the backup data is all right. Here are the following steps:
- run a chckdsk /r (windows 7), -r (XP) on your system disk from your Windows installation CD,
- if it doesn't make any difference, try to restore to another disk if you have one. For example, you could create a partition on your other disk using the Windows installation CD and DISKPART (make sure you create a backup of your data before that), or restore to another USB disk if you have one.
This way we can verify there is no issue with the target disk/partition. Once this is done, we will have to come to the conclusion our NSB backup is corrupted.
Thx for your kind support!
Will try that today. What makes me really angry is the fact that i got there due to a corrupted tryanddecide-commitment!
hi again,
good news! an old image (2 weeks) worked, so larry was right: save often, save early.
the NSB seems to be the problem, i deleted it and start over. maybe i test it some day :-)
thx for supporting me,
thomas
Yep! I don't use T&D or NSB any longer. Tried them and had bad luck some times. I just do a manual system backup before I try stuff.
some days ago TI was state of the art. I think it got too complicated to be simple :-)
Thomas,
Remember that NSB doesn't backup all the partitions on your disk. So you definitely need full system disk images to be safe.
hello pat,
thx for mentioning that, I thought NSB is a full image of the selected disks, too?!
-thomas
NSB doesn't see hidden partitions like you have on Win 7 (system reserved) when you select what to backup.
Maybe as a result, when I tried to restore my Win 7 installation using NSB, I ended up with a working system, but non activated. I didn't try to reactivate Windows and just restored a full disk image I had. I had similar issues with Norton 360 activation. With Norton, I could activate, but the activation wouldn't stick through the following reboot. I noticed similar problems T&D.
All this might be only true for Win 7 and a hidden system reserved. I am not sure.
At any rate, you will find other users who highly recommend to have a full "regular' disk image you feel comfortable going back to if you end up having problems with NSB or T&D.