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No partitions listed to restore to!

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This is True Image 2014, ISO boot media.

I'm restoring to a VMWare machine with Workstation 10.0 hardware.

See the screen shots attached: Now you see it (The booted utility does know about the drive and can access it) ... Now you don't ("no items to display") !

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Hi John,
In order for someone to help, can you provide the build of the boot CD you are using and a little more about your environment? I understand this is primarily agnostic, but something obvious may not be something we can see or determine only knowing you are running VMware workstation 10.

Please try the following. Format the partition MBR and reboot with the boot CD. Let me/us know if that helps.

John,
You need to click on Tools and Utilities and use Add New Disk to initialize the virtual disk first before you can perform a partition-mode restore. If you perform a disk-mode recovery by clicking the check box for the entire disk this step isn't necessary.

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John,
As you can see, Joey and I are on the same page. :0)

Joey wrote:
You need to click on Tools and Utilities and use Add New Disk to initialize the virtual disk first before you can perform a partition-mode restore. If you perform a disk-mode recovery by clicking the check box for the entire disk this step isn't necessary.

Thanks; that did the trick. I guess the recover-destination list doesn't look at disks that don't have a MBR or GPT. It's really bad UX to silently ignore this, though. If I may suggest, show them on the list too and allow doing the initialization (and then refresh the list) from there. I don't see any version information on the boot CD's display. It's freshly created from the aforementioned installed True Image 2014 build 6673.

As it turns out, this version of True Image does not include the Universal Restore feature. My purpose is to rehearse and prepare for upgrading my motherboard. I suppose I can use the Win7 boot DVD to change the HAL, and let the drivers sort themselves out with plug-and-play. Does your U.R. feature do anything deeper than update the HAL and set the correct driver for the boot partition? Past experience with some versions of Windows is that the Repair option on the boot disc will let me check off just the MBR/loader stuff and not go through all the Windows files. This is not the same menu structure on the Win7, but I'm sure it's in there somewhere.

John,
In addition to updating the HAL, UR also allows you to specify drivers (example chipset & storage controller) which get injected during the restore task. Additionally, many here have used an OS install CD for start up repair and/or command line repair tools when things don't turn out exactly as planned.