Test Recovery Results - Need Help
Hey all,
As the subject line suggests I've performed a test Recovery of my system and could use a hand with some of the results.
I initiated the recovery from the Windows 7 x64 Pro console and OK'd partition deletion. The system then rebooted and because I had the Bootable Recovery CD in the CD drive the system booted into the Linux Recovery console. I selected to continue with a Windows boot and the program began the recovery process.
This ended about five hours later. The system has booted and I am writing from it now. My data appears intact, including folders I had set to "encrypted" in advanced properties. That is good.
There are two problems that I have encountered thus far.
The first is that during the boot sequence, the error "MBR Error 3" is posted just before the Windows logo appears and the system boots into Windows Login screen.
The second was discovered because I attempted to perform a Windows Repair for the MBR as outlined here
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/402…
but the only option available when I Autoplay the Windows 7 x64 Pro CD is to "Install Windows 7." Which is odd, since I am already using Windows 7 x64 Pro!
So I am hoping for some help answering these questions:
1) How can I repair the MBR if the Repair Windows option isn't available to me from Autoplaying the Win 7 x64 Pro CD?
2) Why doesn't the Win 7 x64 Pro CD give me options outside of installing Windows 7 x64 Pro?
3) If I did a whole partition backup, to include all data, why is my system installing all basic drivers organic to Windows 7? Why were these not "saved" along with everything else? For instance, my Sound Driver was not saved and I do not have sound at the moment.
4) My intent was to backup the system as a ghost, to be able to restore to exactly the same state the system was in when the backup ocurred, this did not happen, does Acronis 2011 have the capability to do this?
Thanks
Tom
Currently trying to get device drivers figured out. My i7 Processor is listing a '!' trouble indicator next to all 8 logic processors in Device Manager. Says the current driver is from 2006, no idea if that's correct. Probably should have checked Device Manager prior to executing the restore to see if any problems were ocurring. Sound driver will not load, says I don't have the correct hardware (it's the correct driver, it's off the Dell website under my Alienware's service tag id #).
Currently trying to get device drivers figured out. My i7 Processor is listing a '!' trouble indicator next to all 8 logic processors in Device Manager. Says the current driver is from 2006, no idea if that's correct. Probably should have checked Device Manager prior to executing the restore to see if any problems were ocurring. Sound driver will not load, says I don't have the correct hardware (it's the correct driver, it's off the Dell website under my Alienware's service tag id #).
Alright so, after some digging, looks like the simple fix is to just Uninstall each of the drivers for each logic processor in device manager and then Action -> Scan for hardware changes and this will clear the error.
I didn't understand what happened :
I initiated the recovery from the Windows 7 x64 Pro console
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I selected to continue with a Windows boot and the program began the recovery process.
This ended about five hours later.
It looks like Acronis software (whatever its exact name is) was not involved in this process. If it actually was, maybe you selected some old, not a recent archive to restore.
Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack is the whole name.
I initiated the Acronis Recovery from the Acronis application interface while in Windows. It was involved during the whole process. The archive was created and validated immediately prior to the restoration.
Update: Ok, I finally was able to get all the drivers sorted out but I'm still left wondering why I had to do this at all. I never had this problem with Norton Ghost - the disk image when restored always restored the system to exactly the state it was in when the image was created. So my guess is that I'm doing something wrong with the Acronis Software that's affecting the Windows 7 driver architecture when I perform a restore.
For the record again I am using ATIH2011 w/ Plus Pack and have created a Partition Backup of my entire C: w/o Sector-By-Sector. The type of backup scheme is Custom - Incremental. The backup has passed validation. After completing a restoration I had several drivers that were no longer applied to their corresponding devices including sound, video, SD Card Reader, and all of my processors in Device Manager either had to be "Uninstalled/Reinstalled" or have new drivers downloaded and then installed again.
What happened?
Thanks
Tom