workaround on 0x70020 recovery failure due to damaged backup
workaround on broken images - foreword:
The Windows Setup CD (bootable) has a repair function. you can use it in conjunction with manually mounting/copying as described here...
Basic Setup:
Use the BART-PE windows-from-CD or a second HDD with windows on it like in my case.
I run Win-XP and inserted the HDD to recover on another sATA Port.
So basically I can see an empty or damaged 2nd HDD on my XP system.
NOW:
Under XP I mounted the image which was commented "broken"
I formated and created partitions on the 2nd HDD using "ADD HARDDRIVE" from the ACRONIS HOME "extras"-menu.
(if you dont know the size of the partition to be created, just check the mounted image and you can see how big it should be)
You will have an empty HDD now (with partitions in my case)
Now copy ALL (even hidden) files from the mounted drive to the 2nd HDD.
The HDD will not yet boot due to "NTLDR missing".
I shutdown the PC, remove my XP system HDD, and reinstalled my VISTA-recovered-HDD to my primary sATA port.
I inserted the VISTA-Setup-CD.
Reboot the PC with the windows-setup CD.
Select your language and click the 1st INSTALL button. (or the other way around: 1st setup, 2nd language, does not matter)
The important thing is to select "Repair option" or "Reparaturoptionen" in the setup. Do not actually run the whole setup.
The Vista-setup would scan for a already installed system and repaired the HDD first time not correctly.
But I did the boot CD a second time and it repaired the NTLDR.
Now it runs with no problems. I am currently writing this mail from it.
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not shure if I described it a bit complicated, just mail me for Q's.
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I guess you could also install the HDD completely with vista from scratch and afterwards overwrite the whole HDD files with the mounted image files
