True Image 9 reports "The data was successfully restored" - but it wasn't!
Help! I am trying to restore an image on an older PC. It is an older Dell GX200 with an Adaptec 29160 SCSI card and a Quantum Atlas 2 SCSI hard drive running Windows NT 4.0. The CD Drive is also a SCSI device
I tried to make the image using my copies of Backup & Recovery 11.5, Backup & Recovery 10, and True Image Echo Workstation 9, but none of those worked - the computer would not boot. A colleague had a copy of True Image version 9, build 2259 and that did work - it let us boot the machine and create an image onto CD ROM. So far so good.
So now I'm trying to restore that image. I go through the motions to restore, point the source to the 2nd file of the archive on the CD Rom, it finds it - the summary of what I want to do is correct, and I click "Proceed" and immediately it reports back "The data was successfully restored" however all it did was blow the partition away to unallocated space and nothing more. It doesn't even try to start reading from the CD or writing to the hard drive.
So far I've tried removing one then the other SCSI drive, and tried a demo version of True Image 2014 (and of course all of the previous mentioned versions) but no luck thus far. I was thinking of trying the PC bios - but it's only one rev behind and I think that would be grasping at straws at this point.
Does anybody have any ideas what could be going on or how to fix it? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
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The backup image is spread across 2 CD's. When I run verification it does access the CD drive. It tells me its going to take 5 minutes and begins the progress bar. Just shy of a minute, it reports back that "The archive was successfully checked". It never even asks for the other disk.
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Can you copy the CD's into a single folder on another disk and try the restore from the folder when booted from the Recovery CD?
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