Perplexed on recovery of primary disk. 2010
I have 2010, I thought, I was getting a scheduled weekly backup, but apparently not even though it was going through the motions.
My 1TB drive failed, and I have apparently the most recent full backup back to 1/2010 ... okay. I have the data stored elsewhere.
The Problem is that the recovery is throwing me for a curve and I am unsure and VERY uncomfortable going forward as I don't understand what the prompts mean.
Basically, I use the recovery CD, use the Acronis restore disk. (I have removed the bad Drive C and replaced it with the replacement. It is the SAME type of drive)..
Going through the prompts seems okay...
1) I locate the tib that I want to restore
2) Say I want to recover whole disks and partitions
3) Select disk 1 which as three parts to it (Drive C / MBR / NTFS System Reserved)
4) Specify recovery settings of partion 1-1 needs to be set.
I point to Disk 1
5) Specify recovery settings of Partition C
This is where it gets confusing...
When I go to select this, it shows two disks. Disk 1 and Disk 2 (my archive disk with the backups on it).
If I select Disk 1, it highlight BOTH disk one and Disk 2... Why is it doing anything with disk 2 ?? I don't want it to touch disk 2.
Image of what I see (beforeselect) before I select a disk
Image of after I (afterselect) after I clicked on disk 1 is attached (Note that both disk 1 and 2 are now selected... WHY?
I don't feel comfortable going past this point as I don't want to destroy my own way of restoring this data which is on disk 2.
For some reason, the system reserved partition has been restored to the new disk and is no occupying the whole disk? So ATI looks for another disk to restore the C:\system partition.
Do this:
- boot on the Acronis recovery CD,
- in tools, add new disk, select your new disk (be careful to select the right one: drive letters are not the same as in windows). Click OK when ATI tells you everything will be deleted,
- browse to your backup, right click on it, choose restore. Select the entire disk (system reserved, C:\, and MBR + track0)
That's it
Thanks... I will give that a try.
This was partially successful.
When complete, I was getting a BOOTMGR error when rebooting the workstation.
I had to use the Windows 7 Install CD to repair the computer, twice to get this corrected.
A bit surprised this was necessary. Seems that Acronis did not restore everything necessary to restore the system.
I am upgrading to the current version and will do a real live test with another blank hard drive after I get it setup and backed up the first time. I need to know this will work correctly.
The behavior you encountered can be seen when users do not include the system reserved partition in either the backup or the restore, or when the system reserved partition is not placed where it was in the previous set up (in most cases it is set on the same disk as c:\system, but in some cases it is set on another disk, for some reason). It can also occur when the active partition is not properly marked active upon restore. Finally, it can occur if the backed up boot files are indeed corrupted, or if the reconfiguration of the partitions after restore is very different from the original one.
In general, the error you face doesn't happen, and can be corrected by the repair startup process in the vast majority of cases.