OSS does not boot restored Win7
I'm using the OS Selector that was came with DD 11. The link to find my serial numbers and version is not available at the current time. I restored a TI Home partition copy of my Win 7 system after the origional system would not boot. Both copies are on my SATA hard drive. Origional copy in partition 1 and restored copy in partition 5. I cannot boot the restored copy. The restored copy does not show as being active. I change to make it active (DD stand alone) and commit the change. I can go back and the restored copy will show active until I try to boot it. After I try to boot the restored copy it fails. I go back with DD to look at the disk drives and the origional OS in partition 1 is showing as the active partition. The backup and restore was done with TI Home 2011. The restore gave me the expected message about missing drivers, but it seems to be normal even though my device is hardware is the same.
Any ideas?
II am trying to get a copy of BOOTIZ but WIn7 only shows the folder and not the bootwiz.oss. I have made all folders visible.. I guess that's the old "show hidden folders."
It could be on a different partition. OSS doesn't always put it where you think. Make sure you've enabled viewing of System files/folders as well.
How about "context.oss"? That was the only .oss file I could find.
I could not find an option to show system files under Folder Options.
context.oss won't work. It has to be the BOOTWIZ.OSS file. This may help to find the options.
I'm going to close this entry out because I'm getting "Access Denied" when I try to attach or print the record.
In the first reply are you indicating that I should only restore to the same partition that I took the backup from? This seems to be a limitation.
You can restore to a different partition or the same one. It's just that there are multi-booting rules that need to be followed to avoid problems. Another option is to learn how to fix things and adjust things when they are wrong.
As an example, if you restore the Windows 7 partition (I'm assuming that there is no System Reserved partition) to a different location, OSS will need to change the ID value for it (can't have two with the same ID) and add it to the menu. This isn't always the end, though. Depending on whether or not you hide other Windows partitions from the booted one, you can run into drive letter assignment problems. In those cases, you need to manually set the correct drive letters (this is best done before booting it for the first time). The list goes on...
In your first post, you said you restored to partition 5. Is this a Logical partition? Windows won't boot from a Logical partition without tweaking the boot sector. Also, OSS won't add Windows on a Logical partition (has to be added manually). It's best to keep Windows on Primary partitions, if possible.
Without a screenshot of what DD shows or seeing the BOOTWIZ.OSS file it's hard to tell you what's wrong.
I found a bootwiz.oss.... Saved it to . TXT file extension just to be able to attach it.
On my OSS screen I see a WIndows 7; Windows 7 rollback, another Window 7 rollback, and a Windows XP. The windows XP is really on a hard drive I removed for debugging. But it keeps showing up.
I was trying to indicate the fifth partition in as in: first partition primary Win 7 and active. Partitions 2,3,4 as extended partitions. Partition 5 another primary partition with restored Win 7.
Getting back to the original problem I tried to boot to the restored copy of Win7 in the fifth partition. I made it the active partition, but the change does not hold. When I go back the first partition is marked active.
For the XP problem, there are XP booting files being found on three partitions. That's probably why OSS keeps picking it up.
The Windows 7 problem is more complicated. As far as I can tell, the Windows 7 drive is the third drive, but Windows 7 is booting from a partition on the first drive (the booting drive). Since the booting files aren't in the partition, there's a problem and OSS gets confused.
What I would suggest is doing some multi-boot cleanup and getting this in a state where they're easier to maintain. What you have now is quite a mess.
Can you post a screenshot of what DD shows for the drives? Please indicate which partition is which OS.
If possible, can you also post a screenshot of what Disk Management shows for the drives when booted into Windows 7?
What operating systems are on the computer? Which ones currently exist on the drives? I only see Windows 7 and XP and you said XP was disconnected.
Do you have a standard Windows 7 installation DVD?