General recovery/uefi questions
I have done several uefi disk recoveries to same/and/different disks by selecting the entire disk from older versions of ATI and also what I have now ATI 2019. These work fine.
I installed new Realtek audio drivers which made all the realtek stuff dissapear and rolling back the drivers, etc didn't help.. after a couple of days messing around I decided to do a restore.
When doing the restore from both linux and windoze recovery media, I get a corrupted index message on ALL versions full, and incremental.... first time in many years. Verify comes out good both from recovery media, and the boot disk.
A couple of questions:
Why does it say it is doing a sector by sector restore when the .tib files are NOT sector by sector. Does it auto set that when doing a full disk restore? It has always worked ok in the past. I will go back and see if there is a setting I missed.
If I only restore from recovery media the C: partition (os,date,etc) will I get back to that particular date and still boot?
Also Can I do it if booted off of the disk I want to revert back a couple of days?
I don't want to screw up the bootable disk I have if none of the .tib files work.
In the past I have always been able to restore to a new blank disk and make sure it works saving the original for a backup. For some reason now I can't.
Any info is greatly appreciated


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Also, if you still have a running system (minus the Realtek stuff) and you have Windows' System Protection enabled, I would recommend trying to to go back to an earlier Restore Point. I know a lot of people have had problems with restore points over the past few years (with Windows usually saying it can't do the restore, I think), but I've had luck backing out bad drivers that way. When it works, it's a lot less hassle than doing a complete recovery.
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Thanks to both of your for you quick response and insight as to what to do. I created a new full backup on different media and had a clone of my boot disk 6 months or so old. Did a restore of just the C partition. No complaints of corrupt index. While it was restoring I remembered that I had changed the login for the two windows audio services following some instructions for a different problem. Went to two other win 10 machines and checked the settings of the two services. The restore was good, and booted fine. I then applied the one service whose login was different, low and behold the Realtek problem is fixed. Now I just need to put my original boot drive back in and figure out just exactly what disk is causing the index problem. Kinda good this happened or I might have been sol when I really needed a good backup! And I have a current clone. :-) and I do have System Protection enabled, but it did not help.
Thanks Again!
Tim
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Tim, glad to read that you have been making good progress with this issue, so hopefully getting the original boot drive sorted should be an easier task now. Thanks for the feedback.
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