System restore to a new HD
Hi.
I´m using ATI 2014 Premium and made a Backup of MBR partition and also C. After finishing the Backup, I created a new bootalbe media on my pendrive.
Than I disconnected my old HD, and connected a brand new one.
After that, I started the bootable media, and selected the new HD. But after the restore I got error while restarting. "winload.exe".
So, I left the HD unlocated and tried to restore my image, and got the same error.
The last try was installing Windows 8.1 first. Then restored my image, and same error.
The old HD had 320 GB, and the new one has 500 Gb.
Why do I get this error ?
Why I can´t restore my image to the new drive ?
I selected like it shows in the image. And when I switch to disk mode, The hole disk is selected.
Drive D is another HD with 1 TB.
The new HD must be formated, or can it be unlocated before restoring the image ?
The new drive doesn't need to be formatted or partitioned.
Can you post a screen shot of the Windows Disk Management? You can right click on the 8.1 start menu and choose disk management.
I am wondering about this Unnamed partition. I guess it is the active partition.
If it is the active partition, can you assign a drive letter to it, and then, using the options in the menu bar of window explorer, display hidden operating system files. Check that you have the boot files and folder in there.
How I understand, this unnamed partition is the MBR partition, because it is 100 MB. The HD is 320 GB, and I want to change my OS to a new HD with 500 GB.
Weird, it looks like you have a remnant of a System Reserved Partition in the unnamed partition. It it were active, it would be "system, active". But in your case, the C:\ partition has these attributes.
I am also wondering why the G:\ is active (although it is not a problem).
Let's look at what is inside this partition. In Windows Disk Management, right click on the unnamed partition, and give it a drive letter.
Then, open it with Windows explorer. In the Windows explorer window menu, click on view, options, untick hide hidden files and hide protected system files.
Capture a screen shot of this and post.
Take note of the files in there.
Now do the same view for C:\ and see if the files are there as well.
Hi again.
Follows below the print of the small partition.
Followed by the print of C:.
Wow that is weird. It looks like you have a (partial?) windows installation on the unnamed partition.
It also looks like you have Windows in English installed (over?) Windows in Portuguese.
Let's try something:
- keep a full backup of your current disk, including both partitions,
- boot the computer on the recovery CD,
- click on add new disk. Select the disk with the 2 partitions
- let ATI erase the partitions and create a single partition disk
- restore the System 8.1 partition on the disk
Try to reboot. You will probably have to use the Windows installation DVD to repair the startup of your computer, but it should be fixable.
Let us know once you are there with a bootable computer, but only one partition on the system disk.
Hi Pat L. I followed your steps but didn´t work. also trying to restore boot with installation DVD but didn´t work. Then, I tried another thing. I started again the bootable media, and instead of checking "unnamed partition, MBR track and C:", I only checked MBR track and C. Then I cleaned up the HD again, and both, MBR Track and C:, I checked both and used as the target place the unlocated HD.After finishing the restore, Windows started normally. And there is no "unnamed partition". And Windows running fine. I thought that this unamed partition was the MBR, but it seems that it wasn´t. Both MBR and C are now in one partition.
Is this oright now ?
Check the image above:
Yes, you managed to do what I wanted to do: eliminate the unnamed partition and checking that the system boots normally. You are fine now. Congratulations!