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I had a drive fail on my desktop. I replaced the drive with the exact same drive. Nothing else has changed on the system. I recreated my raid 0, then booted the acronis plus pack disk. I tried a simple restore disk, all went well, but the system will not finish booting into windows 7. It gets to the splash screen and reboots without errors. Next I tried universal restore, but it always ails about half way with restore failed message, nothing else.

I next tried putting drivers for the ide, raid, sata and motherboard chipset on a thumbdrive, and point the universal restore to the drive, the install still fails as before.

I must be missing something, but can't figure it out. I have been at this for over a day, and gone nowhere fast. I cannot easily reinstall windows and all the software settings etc, and need to complete a restore. It would take many weeks to get the system back where it was.

Any ideas?

thanks in advance.

vega

Ven, 08/17/2012 - 18:34
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When you are booted into the rescue media, can Acronis see the RAID 0 pair as one drive, or does it see it as two drives? Are you using the Linux based rescue disk, or the WinPE rescue disk? What hard disk controller is in your system? Have you tried pressing "F8" to enter the "Advanced Boot Options" menu in Windows 7? If you use "F8" to get to the "Advanced Boot Options" menu, you can "Disable automatic restart on system failure" and then your may be able to see the error Windows is getting at boot time.

Ven, 08/17/2012 - 19:43
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James F wrote:

When you are booted into the rescue media, can Acronis see the RAID 0 pair as one drive, or does it see it as two drives? Are you using the Linux based rescue disk, or the WinPE rescue disk? What hard disk controller is in your system? Have you tried pressing "F8" to enter the "Advanced Boot Options" menu in Windows 7? If you use "F8" to get to the "Advanced Boot Options" menu, you can "Disable automatic restart on system failure" and then your may be able to see the error Windows is getting at boot time.

thanks for the reply. I had notify turned on but was not notified. (this board seems to work as well as universal restore LOL)

to answer your question, yes the raid is seen as one drive, and is accessed, the error occurs @ 50% of the way through. The controller is a NVidia sata controller. using F8 yields the same reboot loop.

I purchased this software for this exact scenario, and when needed, it fails. Further, I tried the same universal restore on 2 other pc's (one intel controllers, the other JDMicron, using clean drives, it failed the same way. Because the drive failed on this pc, I don't have any option but to get universal restore to work. Judging by what I see in the forums, this may not happen, and the backup of this drive is useless, and the $30 spent on the plus pack was a waste.

Ven, 08/24/2012 - 21:01
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Are the drive you replaced and the new replacement drive the same type of drive (ie: standard format 512/bytes sector or AFT 4KB/sector)?

Also are the two drives now in the raid both the same type (standard format or AFT format)?

You really should not have to use Universal Restore if restoring from a image made on the system your are restoring to. In case you want to use Universal Restore, here are tips:

When using Universal Restore, I ususally put my drivers in a folder on the same drive the backup files are on. Universal Restore modifies the HAL on the target operating system during recovery/restore. The Operating System should install the additional drivers on boot from the drivers folder that you pointed to during the restore. If the driver files do not exist when Windows boots up, then the Windows HAL update will fail, and you could get the results you are seeing. I have used Universal Restore to restore many images to different systems with good success. Usually problems with Universal Restore almost always are because the correct drivers are not available to the system at boot up. Be sure the drivers are the correct ones for your Operating System (32bit vs. 64bit). Try putting the driver files on your backup drive in a folder or folders, and point to them during the recovery. Be sure the driver files are fully extracted from the .zip or .exe files, as these will not work. There must be .inf files (in addtional to others) in the driver folders to have any chance of success. Be sure to leave the backup destination drive (or folder) or other device that contains the driver files, attached to the system during boot up so that the HAL can be updated on first boot.

Ven, 08/24/2012 - 21:45
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I restored 1st with a disk image, that completed, but the system went into a reboot loop. That is when I tried universal restore. Universal restore always errors with "Restore operation failed" and never completes.

I do have the correct drivers for the sata and raid on a thumb drive, and tried putting them on the backup media also. It made no difference. The drives are left connected for the reboot.

The drives are different, 500gb each vs 1tb, but in the same family and brand. This afternoon I tried restoring the image to a single non raid drive with the same result. I re-verified the image and it is fine. I tried going back through several images (about 3 weeks old) and ended up in the same situation.

I finally gave up, installed a fresh copy of windows, installed TI, then restored the image and all is fine. I could have done that with ToDo or MS backup for free.

I'm going to continue to try to get the universal restore working on spare drives as time permits, as I will be updating the system in the near future and will definitely need this to work. This weekend I'll be installing a SSD into my laptop, and will have to use the universal restore. I'm hoping for better results.

thanks James, if anything else comes to mind please post here.

Ven, 08/24/2012 - 22:10