TI Recovery Missing BootMgr Win7 x64
Initially I had missing bootmgr issues with releases prior to build 5055 and when I tested 5055 it seemed that the issue was resolved on my Lenovo W700 with Win7 Ultimate x64 and I considered myself a happy camper. Just to be double sure I tested multiple times by creating a full drive image and restored with each image. I then setup a backup to perform incremental updates keeping a total of eight and then starting with a new full backup. Two days ago something went wrong with my w700, I could boot the system but most of the applications would not work due to missing EXE files, numerous data folders were missing, my desktop was totally different. This occurred after applying a new key for my antivirus software (Kaspersky 2010 Security Suite, the old key had expired) and rebooting. Prior to the reboot I had not booted the system for at least four days.
In that my system was basically toast I booted using the TI recovery CD (build 5055), recovered my latest image (for unknown reasons the scheduled backups had not always run) which was about a month old. Using a month old backup image meant that applications which had been installed or updated after the recovery image would not be on the recovered image but I was not overly concerned. I had also used another application to backup much of my data thus I was reasonably sure I could get close to current.
Much to my surprise after the recovery completed (no issues reported by TI) when I booted I got the Missing BootMgr and all attempts to use the Win7 DVD to repair the drive failed. I also completed several different recovery attempts using TI recovery CD all of which produced the Missing BootMgr mesage.
I then downloaded the latest TI (Build 7046), installed it on my desktop, created a new TI recovery CD, used the new recovery CD to create a new image for the W700 (again using the latest image available to me) and again it failed.
I then searched the internet for possible solutions for the missing BootMgr. I tried several different suggestions none of which worked.
When I recreated the disk image using the TI recovery CD the process took about 3 hours.
As a possible long shot I took one of my extra unused drives, installed Win7, (now I have a bootable drive), then booted with the TI recovery CD and kicked off a recovery of the folders (not the drive image). I have no idea if this will work but the process is taking a LONG LONG time. Currently TI is reporting that 19 days remain.
In all cases I'm recovering from an external eSATA drive connected to my W700 dock. The dock has one eSATA port.
Issues:
1) TI did not recreate an image that I could use
2) The folder recovery process takes much too much time to process
It seems that the folder recovery is not a reasonable solution and I will be forced to totally rebuild my system unless somebody has a workable suggestion.
