ATI 2013 - Recovery of a disk backup
I made a disks backup 2 months ago (C: and D: drives at once) and about 1 week ago I started having major problems with my Windows 7 computer (repeated blue screens, lost genuine windows license, etc.). More over, all that happens during important Windows updates.
I think the problems were due to the RAM that suddenly became faulty. I removed 2 DIMM (8G -> 4G) and since then the computer became stable (no more blue screen), but still I lost the genuine license and couple of other problems I could fixed manually. At this point, my Windows is denied any update since Windows is no more genuine (regular pop-ups indicating counterfeited software, although I bought the real DVD from an on-line store). I tried plenty of ways (e.g. Fix-It, manual updates, etc.) to recover the genuine license but none worked.
Anyway I could run a full system anti-virus scan this week and cleaned up the detected threats.
According to Windows7, the only way to recover my genuine license is to reinstall it. If I do, I will have to reinstall everything (personal data, all the software, etc.) and I don't want to do that.
Now I would like to recover my system disk (C: only) from my ATI backup. I never performed this operation before. And since it is a system disk backup I guess it cannot be done while running Windows, right?
So what I plan to do is to:
1) Insert the ATI Rescue Disk in my DVD player.
2) Restart the computer and boot from the DVD.
3) At this point I have no idea what will happen, so I'm asking for your help:
My guesses are:
- The recovery utility will ask me to select a backup file but I don't know if I will be able to select it from a directory on the E: drive?
- Once the backup file selected, will I be able to select the recovery of the C: drive only?
Can you tell me if my guesses are right?
After that I plan to rescan the system for viruses and then go ahead for the Windows updates.
Thank you.
I do incremental backups by series of 8 (i.e. it does a full backup every 8 backups).
If I choose the last incremental backup for recovering my system disk, will ATI be able to do the full disk recovery, retrieving all the incremental backups back to the last full backup? (all my backups are int he same directory)
Or should I select the last full backup for the disk recovery and, once recovered, do a recovery of the following incremental backups?
If I choose the last incremental backup for recovering my system disk, will ATI be able to do the full disk recovery, retrieving all the incremental backups back to the last full backup? (all my backups are int he same directory)
Yes.
You should not allow an incremental chain to become too long. An incremental restore depends upon every incremental in the chain being valid, including the original full. It's better to limit each chain to just a few incrementals, followed by a fresh full backup to start a new chain.
You should validate backups periodically. That would alert you much if the full backup were missing or unreadable.
Select only the one single inc based on the date you want to restore to.
The program will automatically restore starting with the base full and restore all single inc up to and including your selection.
You only need to choose the one file.
Should you perform the restore, you can expect the inc numbering to change and it could take another chain before it become correct again as the restored program finds backup files which it did not know to exist.