Need help on doing first time recovery
I make the mistake running sysprep from my desktop, which Dell should have removed when doing remote service call for an issue I had. It's wants to reset PC back to "out of box" How do I recover from FULL backup I did 5 days ago. I'm posting on PC now but a lot of features don't work. What's the process doing recovery... about 1.7tb BTW backup is on my WD personal home cloud, but coping it to external USB just encase.
thanks
PC is 2 year old Dell alien R12 w/UEFI, but not sure if I used simple WinPE or not so I'll make another USB rescue media. What's the difference between using the USB vs running recovery from within aconis 2020? I presume OS is restored? I'm new at this?
MY PC setup:
I have OS and programs on C:, 500GB D: 2TB files, folders, documents, E: 1TB only has microsoft flight simulator. I hope I can just recover/restore C:??? Is it poossible or would a bigger mess be created?
I have the backup on my WD my cloud home (networked)... which would be faster or better choice
Thanks
What's the difference between using the USB vs running recovery from within aconis 2020? I presume OS is restored? I'm new at this?
If you start a recovery from within Windows, then when Acronis does the restart (that is necessary) it uses a small Linux kernel OS environment which has a number of known limitations.
If your main OS is on a separate C: drive, then yes, you can just restore that drive without needing to touch your D: 2TB or E: 1TB drives.
Note: if possible, I would recommend temporarily disconnecting those extra drives (D: & E:) to avoid any possibility of any threat to the data they contain. Drive letters will almost certainly be different when operating in the rescue environment, so it is too easy to make a mistake and restore to the wrong drive!!! Always double-check that you have selected the correct drive - look at the drive contents if unsure - you can do this by simulating doing a Files & Folders type backup from the rescue media so that you see what folders are present, then cancel out of that backup.
An external USB drive will normally be faster than a networked drive, plus with the latter you will not have DNS so need to access the WD Cloud drive by using its IP address notation, i.e.
\\192.168.0.29\Backup\...
Only option to create was Simple' WinRE and not Simple' WinPE
But found PE under advanced menu.
Larry, the 'Simple' option of the rescue media builder creates WinPE media using the files from the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) so that users don't need to download and install the Windows PE and ADK Kits at around 6GB size.
Been doing more reading and in the process of making backup of D: & E: along with just copying to external USB SSD and 3rd copy.
Looking into the full backup recovery I see options for just recovering C; which has OS. 2 choices... which should I use and why once I boot PC from rescue media USB. Tried to upload 48 & 52KB photo capture but failed. Should I select disks or partition when recovering C: OS
as always thanks
Been doing more reading and in the process of making backup of D: & E: along with just copying to external USB SSD and 3rd copy.
Looking into the full backup recovery I see options for just recovering C; which has OS. 2 choices... which should I use and why once I boot PC from rescue media USB. Tried to upload 48 & 52KB photo capture but failed. Should I select disks or partition when recovering C: OS
as always thanks
Larry,
Attached a link to a KB article which should help you with this.
To all that helped, thank you!!!
1-Recovery worked, as sysprep no longer runs on startup. Working through minor issues such as office 365 outlook mail .pst file didn't work. FIX was create new profile/account and import .pst file from my other PC w/ office 2010.
2-When recover started, didn't have option to recover form WD-mycloud home... so I used the same backup located on USB HD. Any solution for this?
3- related to #2, will this work, create external USB HD as "rescue Media" and also then use for regular backups?
I could boot from USB HD and recover easier??
Larry, glad that you have got the main recovery action completed.
Recovery from any network drive is a little more complicated and requires that your network adapter has been detected correctly by the rescue media, and given an IP address, after which you need to establish a link to the network drive. That is something I would recommend having a play with when you are not needing to do an urgent recovery.
To start, when in the rescue environment, you need to open a command prompt window - that is easiest if you use the MVP Assistant tool to create the rescue media, as this will give you a Win PE desktop with a toolbar where there is an icon for the command prompt by default.
Once at the command prompt window, you can run commands such as IPCONFIG to see if your network adapter has got a valid IP address, and PING to check that your network drive is addressable on the network. You can try out these commands from a command prompt within Windows to see what they show.
You can have an Acronis Survival Kit partition on your external USB HDD and still use that same drive for backups from within Windows or for recovery when booted from the Survival Kit.
The option to create a Survival Kit is only offered when you are creating a new Disks & Partitions (or Entire PC) type backup task and are setting the Destination for the task to a suitable external USB drive that can be used for this purpose.
See KB 61639: Acronis True Image: how to create Acronis Survival Kit - for more information on the process.
Also KB 61738: Acronis True Image: Survival Kit disk partition for backups is limited to 2TB on BIOS-booted systems
And Acronis Article: The Acronis Survival Kit
Larry,
In reference to your issue with network access using the recovery media I have supplied the images below which may be helpful to you.
This first image shows that from the menu bar at the top of the app window in the rescue media there is a tab for Network Options. Clicking here will show any detected network adapters for your system. If no network adapters are discovered on your system then you will see nothing here in which case network adapters would need to be added to the rescue media during the build process.
This next image shows the tabbed menu bar without the Network Options tab. This happens when the app window is at a display resolution that requires app window to display at a width that is narrower than app design.
Note to the left of the Search box the appearance of a button that displays >> which is not shown in the previous image. This >> button when clicked will produce the Network Options button in a balloon popup so that you can select. Alternatively, you can click-drag the right side of the app window frame to make the window wider thus revealing the Network Options tab.
This image shows the recovery media Recovery Wizard. Note the File name address field at the bottom. By entering the IP Address of your MyCloud device that line and then pressing the Enter key it should trigger a credentials logon window in which you can enter that information and connect to the device. If no credentials are required then the directory tree window will populate with any discovered paths.
Example IP Address: \\192.168.1.20 or \\192.168.1.20/sharename
Once connected to your device you can then locate the desired backup file for recovery.