Could not recover from windows 7
When I tried to recover from Windows 7, True Image Home did not reboot into Linux. It ran the complete recovery in Windows. I got an enormous amount of error messages, "Could not recover file thus and so" I clicked "Ignore" just to see how it would come out, but eventually there were so many of those messages I was not sure if I would ever get them all, so I just rebooted before the recovery was complete. I rebooted into Recovery Manager by pressing F11, and recovered successfully in less than 15 minutes.
With the previous versions, you recommended recovering from Windows if possible, because there is more functionality. But now, it seems much better to recover from the Linux environment.
Was this a malfunction of True Image Home? Or did I do something wrong?
I think I read that in one of the previous instruction manuals. It never did make sense to me. Whatever. Clearly it is better to restore from the Rescue Media.
So what happened with my aborted recovery from Windows? Is True Image Home 2013 supposed to reboot into Linux for the recovery, like all the previous versions? If so, what might have caused it to remain in Windows for the entire recovery? Is there something I can do to repair the problem?
If the image and the destination are not partitions that contain the OS True Image doesn't boot into Linux from within Windows. Were you perhaps restoring a non OS partition? Otherwise it sounds like Windows has either overridden the boot marker that TI will lay down or that TI didn't alter the boot flag on the hard drive as expected.
As James says, apart from the recovery of non OS drives, all recovery work should be done from external media.
With Windows 7, I only have two partitions- System Reserved and System C. I was trying to recover both. I don't remember being given any choices about selecting sources or destinations, but I wasn't paying much attention. I expected everything to be routine, and I was on automatic pilot. I might have somehow gotten into a file recovery mode. I was getting tons of error messages, "Could not restore file thus and so."
Upon reflection, I realize that I don't remember enough details for us to accomplish much here. Let's just write this one off, unless another problem crops up.
Anyhow I've learned some things- mainly to recover from external media, but also that there are occasions when Acronis does not reboot into Linux. Thanks to both of you for your replies.
duke 468, thanks for posting back. True Image is a powerful application so it's worth learning about its options and functions. Check out the many user guides and tutorials in the left margin of this forum, particularly Getting Started and Grover's True Image Guides which are illustrated with step-by-step screenshots.
duke 468,
If you are starting over, why not try another restore using the guides listed in item #3 below. Use either item 2 or item 1from that link.
Do the restore from the CD and use the Add disk opiton to clear the target disk of data by deleting the partitions and leaving all space on the target disk as unallocated.
I've already restored. When Acronis did not reboot into Linux, but continued to run the recovery in Windows; and when I began to get a flood of error messages saying, "Could not recover thus and such a file", I aborted the recovery by rebooting my computer. On the reboot, I pressed F11 to boot into Recovery Manager, and recovered with no problem.
I am very curious about what went wrong with the original recovery; but I cannot remember the details of what I actually did, and the notifications that appeared, clearly enough to conduct a meaningful investigation; and I am not curious enough to go through the whole process again. From now on I will recover from external media. Acronis seems to be working fine otherwise. It produced a good backup last night with no problems.
Thanks for all these tutorials. These should keep me busy for awhile.
The only way I could abort the recovery was by rebooting the computer, because the long chain of error messages made it impossible to get any functionality from Acronis. No matter how many errors I clicked off, there were still plenty more waiting in line.
I have been using Acronis for years, strictly for image backups and recovery. I never have any partitions other than the standard ones that come with Windows. I am not expert at using Acronis; but within the narrow range of what I use it for, I am fairly experienced. If I were less experienced, I probably would have been paying closer attention to what I was doing.