Bootable media recovery issue
Attempting to roll back a windows 7 C drive to a previous full backup... using ATI 2013.
My backups are on an external drive that connects to the laptop this is all happening on with an expansion card after market USB3 adaptor.
I was afraid the boot media might not be able to see the archives... but when I booted off the media it seemed to all be fine.
I first ran a verification of the archive which was successful, so braved up and tried to roll back to about a month ago. But somewhere, part way thru... it failed. But, of course, not before it destroyed the working OS on C.
I wasn't actually watching when the failure happened but when I did look, I just saw a dialog that said it had failed ... no errors showing. Of coure error messages won't resurrect the destroyed OS anyway.
Once all this happened, I started wracking my brain for what I might have done wrong. I remembered that when I made the archive I grabbed C:\ and the little emergency partition that is there to reinstall from I think.
When I targetted the archive to C I didn't think about that other little partition being in there too.
But also when I initially tracked down the archive with the 'Browse' button, it opened only to the *.tib and stopped... Never saw any way to tell the emergency partition was also in there.
So that is the state of affairs right now. Currently I'm using the boot media to 'Move' that archive onto an internal drive on the actual laptop and planning to try again from there.
What to do about that emergency partition...? is it just a matter of selecting C and the other way smaller partition as the targets?
Ah, didn't notice at first that you had started a second thread. When recovering from the CD you are asked, after selecting the archive and the recovery method, to select the items to recover. The options will be Disk 1 and beneath that each partition that was included in the original backup. If your backup included the small (100MB?) partition then it will be shown separately from the C partition. If both are there, and you select both then both will be restored. If only C is there then the small partition was not included in the backup when it was created. That shouldn't matter though.
At the next step you have to choose where the selected partitions are to be located and it will normally offer you the same locations they were in originally but also allow you to set new locations. You should normally use the offered locations rather than opting for New Location, as the latter would change your disk layout and the system may or may not boot afterwards. However that would not have caused the error you have experienced.
If all that is recognisable to you then the subsequent restore failure is not connected with your choice of partitions to be restored and is indicative of some other problem, possibly with the hard disk itself. I've suggested one way of addressing that in your original thread.
Ah, didn't notice at first that you had started a second thread. When i
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If all that is recognisable to you then the subsequent restore failure is not connected with your choice of partitions to be restored and is indicative of some other problem, possibly with the hard disk itself. I've suggested one way of addressing that in your original thread.
It was probably a bad idea to start a second thread... there seems to be more info available in the first thread so I think I'll go back to that one and let this one close out.
PS, currently getting an iso of that disc partitioner tool burned to disc. Understand though that before even starting on this restore... I put that disc thru a 5 part series of rigorous tests using the tools availble at right click on disk/properties/tools
I think it did the test you suggested ... it schedules the testing for next boot so the os is off and takes about 45 minutes or so to get thru all 5 parts.... the disc passed in all regards, including bad sectors.
Tell us a little more about the backup scheme that you set up originally
Please see the ongoing thread entitled "Rolling back disc image". I foolishly started this other thread and now have both running about the same stuff. There is a lot more information there.
But briefly. My back up is of the C drive and includes a special system drive that ATI sees as F. So the *.tib included both.
A restore attempt failed part way thru... machine was left unbootable.
I've attempted a second try which completed successfully but the system is still unbootable.. Many more details in the other thread... hope to see you there.