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I've messed-up. HELP!

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Own Toshiba Satellite A300 - Vista Business- 2h/d

Disk1 has(better HAD) following partitions
- C: Drive Primary, Active)
- Toshiba Sys Vol (Primary)
- HDD Recovery (Primary, Hidden)
- Acronis Safe Zone

Disk2 contained some data and bits and pieces (downloads ,etc)

Done full backup few weeks ago with V9 true Image. Wife learning to use computer clicked too many times where she shouldn't, so things started to go wrong. Decided to restore fully from back-up.

ATI 9 allowed me to set HDD recovery first, then Toshiba Sys Vol, but never allowed me to restore Drive C:

After many attempts and many clicks, I ended up with C: drive in Disk 2 with some unallocated space and Toshiba Sys Vol + HDD Recovery + Acronis + 2 (TWO unallocated spaces and I "lost" my Disk 2. I know I've stuffed up badly but don't know how to go back to original partitions and disks.

I'll buy chocolates for the kind person that gets me out of trouble.

BTW system is running but no D;Drive and two big chunks of unallocated on Disk1 and a smaller one on Disk 2

Please Help

Robert

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Do you also have images of what was your 'D' drive?

Is disk 2 inside the laptop or in a base unit?

As far as restoring the 'C' drive, it would have been better to have ticked the complete disk as the restore option rather than the individual partitions.

Not sure why it has restored the image to the second disk - there are a few possibilities - it was marked active by the system, the Linux environment only saw the second drive and 'ahem' operator error.

What is currently on the drive that was 'C'?

I would disconnect your second drive and check exactly what may or may not be on the first if that is possible. It probably won't boot, but if you can get hold of an XP CD or a boot CD that allows you to look at the drive you'd at least know what is perhaps still on it. You could use the rescue CD for this, but if the wrong selection is made you could end up with more damage.

I suspect that your 'd' drive as was is no longer in existance, hence my question about an image of the 'd' drive.

To get yourself back into businnes - keep the second drive disconnected - tick the complete disk restoration option and restore the 'C' drive.
Once you can boot back into the first drive, re-attach the second drive then if you have an image of the second disk, select that and restore the 'd' drive, or format it from within Windows.

If you haven't already done it, I suggest giving all your partitions meaningful names, as the Linux environment of the Acronis recovery mode doesn't name hard drives the same way as Windows and it can become confusing.

I've just turned computer on to see if any response to my problem.

Unfortunately, I have to go out for just about rest of the day.

I'll follow your instructions as soon as I can.

Your response has been appreciated and I'll let you know later how things are going.

Thank you

Robert

Colin,

Your reply gave me something to think about.

What if, as you suggested should've been done in the first place, restored the full Disk1???

I did that and, after a few hiccups (drive not being able to read DVDs - always towards the end) finally I had complete disk as before.

Now I have a copy of Windows on Disk 2!!!

I'll reformat disk2 and restore about 99% of what was on it from networked computer, mainly downloads and a few pictures, etc.

Anyway, again, thank you for your reply.

I wish you all the best, regards

Robert

Robert,

I missed that you were restoring from DVD's.

Did you restore with just the one disk installed as I suggested?

Did you have a copy of the original drive 'D' either as a separate image or as a partition of the image?

If you do have a copy of drive 'd', then you should be able to restore this drive /partition to the second drive, even if it means disconnecting drive one temporarily (which you shoudn't have to do).

If you are restoring (now) from within Windows perhaps you could post some screen snips - so we can see what you are seeing, this might solve the mystery.