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TIH 2012 Rescue Disk recovery problem / query

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Hi folks

Been using various versions of TI for several years now (not bothered to upgrade 2012 version as I could not see anything in later versions that I was interested in). Other than cloning the odd drive, I've never had to use the Recovery function before.

Last night my OS/boot drive failed (OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD). BIOS no longer detects it and activity light on drive is out (should be either green or red). I've now raised an RMA for this.

No problem I think, as I take regular full drive image backups. So I replaced the dead Vertex 4 with a spare Mechanical HD (150GB Velociraptor). Then I boot PC using the Rescue disk. Unluckily the rescue (recovery section) does not appear to see the backups for my duff C: drive (backups held on an external USB3 drive). So there does not appear to be any way to recover the latest C: image back to the replacement drive!

Question. Any known issues here? Is it something to do with the fact that I've had to physically replace the SSD with another drive (IE. a mech HD)? or something else??

Pretty hopeless taking backups if it wont work when something goes wrong.

I have managed to find a work round. As I remembered that I cloned the Vertex 4 OS/boot drive to another mech drive (paranoid I am) a few months back. So I finally managed to boot from this and initiate a recovery from within the Windows environment. So at least I currently have a working system (though obviously a fair bit slower than when the Boot/OS drive was an SSD).

Any help / suggestions would be very welcome. As I would like to get to the bottom of this for the future etc.

Regards Mike

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Michael wrote:
Unluckily the rescue (recovery section) does not appear to see the backups for my duff C: drive (backups held on an external USB3 drive). So there does not appear to be any way to recover the latest C: image back to the replacement drive!

Not sure from your comments but when booting from the TI recovery Cd is will be necessary for the user to use the browse for backups feature and the user locate their backup folder manually. The main reason for this is that the disk drive letteres are assigned by Windows and the recovery CD is Linux so often times, the drive letters is not the same so there is no match untill the user points the program specifically to the exact storage disks.

GroverH wrote:
Michael wrote:
Unluckily the rescue (recovery section) does not appear to see the backups for my duff C: drive (backups held on an external USB3 drive). So there does not appear to be any way to recover the latest C: image back to the replacement drive!

Not sure from your comments but when booting from the TI recovery Cd is will be necessary for the user to use the browse for backups feature and the user locate their backup folder manually. The main reason for this is that the disk drive letteres are assigned by Windows and the recovery CD is Linux so often times, the drive letters is not the same so there is no match untill the user points the program specifically to the exact storage disks.

Thanks for the reply... appreciated.

I had sort of assumed that this might be the case but I could not seem to find the external USB3 HD (containing the backups) anywhere!

Now I've got my system back up and working (on a temporary mech HD) I've tried booting from the Rescue disk and can quite happily see all the drives, including the external one with the backups on. Strange.... though doesn't give me a lot of confidence should anything like this happen again.