What To Recover And In What Order
My hard drive scheme.
2 X 120GB Force 3 SSDs in RAID 0. Two partitions, one with my Operating System and another with my games. Data is on a 1TB Hard Drive.
I am used to TI 2010.
Now, I want to restore a full disk back up of my two partitions on my SSDs to a 1TB hard drive. With TI 2010, I would select my C drive in the back up to be restored. I would then be brought to a window where I selected the destination and adjust the size of the partition to be restored if necessary. Once that operation was complete, I would do the same thing for my D partition (games), and then recover the MBR. No problem, all worked well.
With TI 2013, I have the option of restoring in partition mode, which seems to be similar to the method I used with TI 2010, or Disk Mode.
If I choose Partition mode, my restores will not boot, I get the Boot Loader missing message. If I restore using Disk Mode, the restore boots, but, I do not have the option to adjust the partition size, it fills the whole disk with whatever partitions are in the back up I am restoring.
I am also seeing a 100mb "partition" named System Reserve. Although I could not see it in TI 2010, it must have been there, as I could never restore the C Partition without a gap of 100MBs before the partition.
I also see the option in TI 2013 Disk Mode to "Show" and then restore MBR. I have tried restoring in Disk Mode one partition at a time in many different variations, i.e. restoring the MBR, not restoring the MBR, restoring the System Reserve, not restoring the system reserve. It wil not boot. I double checked to make sure the partition is active.
In TI 2010, I saw my boot partition described as active. I see in TI 2013 the System Reserve is designated as active.
I want to be able to create a working boot drive from my back up using the partition mode, so I can adjust the resulting partition's size, but, I can't boot any result I have created.
Thoughts?
