Cannot load archive image from NAS drive
Prior to trying to upgrade to Windows7 I made an image of my Vista laptop and archived it to my NAS drive. The log reports the backup was succesful, and that the archive is validated OK. [NB. I'm using True Image 11 Home build 8,101].
The Win7 upgrade has gone all pear shaped, so I'm now trying to restore my backup using the restore CD, (created from 8,101), but I cannot see my NAS drive at all, (even using the //192.168.2.101/share/etc.... notation). I've set to network parameters correctly, and I do get the 'computers near me' item, but with no computers listed. I've tried various Googled suggestions, but with not joy so far. First question; is there anything else I can try to enable my laptop to see my NAS drive when booted from the recovery CD?
Anyway, on to step 2...
In order to try and get at the data by other means I copied the 34GB .tib archive file from my NAS onto an external USB disk, and plugged that into my laptop. The TI restore CD declares that archive to be corrupt, and so can't restore from it. [NB validating the backup archive with TI on another PC does indeed seem to indicate that it is corrupt, and that the NAS drive version is NOT corrupt - however trying to copy again from the NAS to the external USB drive keeps ending up with a corrupt copy] - Question 2; any idea why this should be, or is there any special way of copying a large .tib file?

- Log in to post comments