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v2011 - Trying to recover Win7Pro Installation - i5, Z68 Chipset, Intel RAID
Had a three 1TB disk RAID array and lost two of the disks.
Bought two new 500GB (due to the current prices) and set them up in a RAID1.
I have two backup images, one is ~7GB and was created right after OS install, AV, & Updates - very bare.
The second is ~31GB and was created after installing programs & customizing.
I can't seem to restore from the 31GB image, I get to 'Select Destination' and all choices are Grayed Out.
For grins I tried the 7GB image and it works, boots fine, but isn't what I need.
I installed an 80GB drive just to see if TIH would see it and still no joy.
Am I hitting a size limit or something obvious?
TIA,
_sr
Side Road,
I hope you have not selected a sector by sector restore.
To work around the size issue do this:
- recover always and only from the recovery CD,
- make sure the recovery CD is seeing your raid set up properly (a single volume),
- restore first the 100MB system reserved partition, *alone*, from the recovery CD. Make sure to leave 1MB offset before the partition and do not resize it, Mark it primary active,
- once restored, without rebooting, restore the C:\system partition,
- then restore the MBR+track0 and the disk signature.
That should work.
Thanks for the response Pat! How does one leave a 1MB offset ??? I'm missing something I thimks...
I've restored the 100MB partition, and without rebooting I try to do the 2nd partition and still everything is grayed out.
_sr
OK, looking at the 'Select Items to recover' screen, the first partition shows a "Capacity" of 100MB and "Used Space" of '24.13MB',
The second partition shows a "Capacity" of 1.819TB and "Used Space" of 1.819TB. The program is misreading and failing.
Used Space is in area of 31GB...
Unless I restore to a 2TB drive I believe I am out of luck. This has to be a bug of some annoying sort...
_sr
Did you do a sector-by-sector backup? If yes, you shouldn't.
Run a chkdsk /r on the partition that is showing the wrong size.
The offset parameter for the 100MB partition will show up as the space left before the left cursor, when ATI proposes the size of the partition to restore to.
I opened my eyes and now I see...
I found another backup from between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Same thing with the 2nd partition, 1.819 and 1.819.
I can restore the very first backup I made but the other two are no-go's.
Is there any method to massage the backup TIB file so that the second partition is seen at 31GB?
Thanks for your time,
_sr
If backing up mounted image doesn't work (I'm afraid that it won't), I cant think of anything but hardware manipulations. Borrow a 2 TB disk just for this purpose, or create a spanned 'raid' of your 1tb+500+500, and recover to it, then runch chkdsk, backup and make sure it's of normal size then.
That is what I'm about to attempt, going to borrow a 1TB from a friend and use the leftover 1TB from the failed three disk array.
If the prices of HDDs hadn't gone through the roof with the flooding in Thailand... meanwhile the drives that failed were made in China.
Should have the RMA's in a week, but my faith in them is not very high.
So much for trying to consolidate 18years of digital photos, and pull everything together on a big-arse RAID5 drive.
Proves there is such a thing as Too Big... hehe
If backing up mounted image doesn't work (I'm afraid that it won't), I cant think of anything but hardware manipulations. Borrow a 2 TB disk just for this purpose, or create a spanned 'raid' of your 1tb+500+500, and recover to it, then runch chkdsk, backup and make sure it's of normal size then.