Best way to use ATI
I went from ATI 9 to 10. I have Vista Home, and a raid 0 setup. This is the 2nd time my raid array failed ( i have back up HD so nothing was lost). However, what is the best way to use ATI 10, (clone or image) if my system fails again, meaning, I don't want to reformat and re-install windows. I would love to just restore an image and be up and running. I have tried it 2x, (xp pro, and vista) and both times after the image was restored, I could not boot into windows. If i have to reformat and reinstall windows everytime, what good is ATI?
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You certainly should be able to boot into Windows. Sounds like the Windows partititon perhaps wasn't referenced properly in the MBR. What exactly were the symptoms of "not booting into Windows", error messages, what was on the screen when it quit, etc. There are people on this forum that know quite a bit about the boot process and RAID (I don't use RAID) who can help you.
Gosh, I don't remember now. It was a raid failure, and when it rebooted, the screen was black and said windows can't find drivers, please put in your windows disk and repair. When i put in the vista disk, vista didn't show up. I put in the acronis recovery cd i made, and restored the image, but had the same error screen, (it asked for windows disk to repair), so i was back to square one. I have since formated and reinstalled vista, but again, how can i use ATI so not to format and reinstall.
thanks
Not certain but this sounds like it might be the Vista offset problem that showed up with TI10 which was the first version to support Vista. If a disk is formatted with Vista it uses a 2048 sector offset rather than the 64 sectors WinXP and previous used. When TI restored the partition it restored it back to the 64 sector offset which caused a non-booting problem. The fix was to put in the Windows installation CD and do the appropriate repair which fixed it once and for all. If the disk was partitioned with XP and Vista subsequently installed in the partition then this wasn't a problem since the offset was still 64 sectors.
Hopefully somebody will be a bit more definite about this.
Not certain but this sounds like it might be the Vista offset problem that showed up with TI10 which was the first version to support Vista. If a disk is formatted with Vista it uses a 2048 sector offset rather than the 64 sectors WinXP and previous used. When TI restored the partition it restored it back to the 64 sector offset which caused a non-booting problem. The fix was to put in the Windows installation CD and do the appropriate repair which fixed it once and for all. If the disk was partitioned with XP and Vista subsequently installed in the partition then this wasn't a problem since the offset was still 64 sectors.
Hopefully somebody will be a bit more definite about this.
So, what you are telling me (between the lines) is it won't work, or is there possibly an update?