Restore fails
I was changing some system settings and now I can't boot into Windows. I'm trying to restore my hard drive, but a couple minutes into the operation I get this error:
Operation with partition 'C:' was terminated.
Write error (0x70004)
Tag = 0x4A99BB4AEEE00DE6
I/O disabled for removed disks. (0x1000E2)
I've tried verifying the backup (it's okay) and wiping the target disk first. I've attached my log.
Thoughts?
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Hi Colin,
I updated the firmware on my SSD, after reading about another user having the same problem with an OCZ drive. That seems to have solved it - I was able to complete the restore.
However, I now have another serious problem. Restoring my drive didn't resolve my boot error:
"Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key"
From my research this might be caused by a corrupted MBR. I don't understand why restoring doesn't resolve this. I clearly have "restore MBR" checked in True Image.
To answer your questions:
Yes, I'm restoring via the recovery CD.
I'm not sure if I'm using MBR or GPT. If I go to "Add New Disk Wizard" it shows my drive as "Basic GPT", but my partition layout shows "MBR and Track 0". I've attached a screenshot of my partitions.
I'm trying to restore Windows 8. I'm not sure if I made a sector by sector backup (I used whatever the default incremental was). If there's a way to check I'd be more than happy to.
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Geoff,
Since you are unsure of the type of disk that you had initially, you could boot to your Rescue Media, and use the "Add a new disk" tool to initialize the target disk as MBR, and then perform the restore (including the MBR/track 0 and Disk Signature), then reboot to see your results. If this doesn't work, you could boot to the Rescue Disk and use the "Add a new disk tool" to go back and initialize the disk as GPT and try the restore again to test for proper operation. If your disk is/was GPT, you do not need to restore the MBR/track 0 or the Disk Signature, as these are not needed for GPT disks.
When you created the backup of your disk, did you have any boot problems at that time?
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Hi James,
I was able to solve the boot issue by resetting my BIOS to defaults. Windows 8 boots! I'm not sure what caused the problem initially, as I didn't change anything in my BIOS (I was disabling a 32GB hibernation file and reducing the size of my pagefile). I tried changing the boot order, which didn't work. But resetting my BIOS seems to have solved it - go figure.
And no, I did not have any problems when creating the backups.
So in summary: Updated SSD firmware, reset BIOS, problems solved.
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