Unable To Restore Image Created with ATI Home 2010
I have used Acronis for years and encountered something that seems most strange indeed.
I have an image that was created on a smaller drive with a single partition. I would like to restore this image to a drive that is much larger and with two partitions. I want to restore to the first partition of that drive but the restore process results in a crippled image on the larger drive partition.
I restore using the emergency tool with a USB flash drive holding the recovery software rather than a CD.
The restore seems to progress completely normal with what appears to be all files from the system drive restored to the larger partition. Upon boot, loading is terribly slow and at the log on screen, Windows configures the desktop for about 2 minutes or longer then no icons displayed with a blank desktop.
So, I am left with an unworkable restore.
I made the image including the MBR of the system drive but did not choose to restore it since I believe that would result in the new partition being reduced to the size of the smaller original partition with no way to fix this in windows.
Could that be causing the issue?
Please tell me if there are any workarounds for this.
Thanks!!
Jerry,
1. What operating system is on the small disk? XP, Vista, etc?
2.Is there an operating system on the larger disk? If yes,what is it.
3. Have you looked at both disks from inside the Windows Disk Management feature to see if either has any hidden partitions.
4. Was your original smaller backup a single partition backup or did your system disk (at that time) contain other partitions which were not backed up?
5. Does the operating system on the backup match to what is installed on the larger partition?
After the answers to the above, perhaps some help can be rendered by others volunteers.
The smaller system disk where Win 7 ultimate is installed contains a single partition as stated, the OS is Windows 7 Ultimate
The larger disk partition has nothing installed on it--wouldn't writing an image to the target partition erase it?
No hidden partitions on the larger drive there is one other logical partition as stated but that is used for simply data.
Yes, Window 7 files were transfered to the larger partition where there was nothing previously. The target partition was formated before writing to it. After the restore, the Win 7 OS files are on the system but the OS is useless --it simply loads with a blank desktop as stated. So I consider that image unsuccessful which is the basic question--why?
As stated I did not restore the MBR of the image to the target partition to prevent from undersizing the larger partition on the target drive.
Is there anything else I can offer?
bin,
Please note my reply to GroverH's questions. Were there other questions you might have that would allow you to provide me some assistance?
nope
ok yep
but i am 90% asleep and i will agree with anything when listenining ti Rik Wakeman,
hey does that make me or us superhuman?
I would comment further for you but for me you can wait till another DAY
NIGHT BOLLOCKSING NIGHT
Well, I can't speak for you but I was simply attempting to learn why the strange behavior, or so it seems, with this restore which basically failed. I never bothered to clone a disk or saw the value in doing it with image in hand. I'm not even sure I have a good image but if all the files were copied, I have rarely encountered a situation where the image isn't bootable.
Someone who is knows a lot more than I about computers told me that it was not possible to take an Win 7 image made from a smaller partition and restore it to a drive with a larger partition. I have done this countless times with XP and 2000. Why would the rules change with Win 7.
Any comment or thoughts regarding not restoring the MBR of the system disk to the larger target partition? Any impact there that could be a part of the problem?