DLing it now. OR I'll need to find some way of restoring the image manually. Friday, March 7, AM. Let me know if you guys have any luck. Man I'm spamming this forum Will let you know if it works. Yup that worked! I'm off to the pub to shout myself a well earned beer!
This is strange but it seems to be working I'll update this post once it completes. Thursday, March 13, PM.
Microsoft, is there any way to recover from this disaster?!! Tuesday, April 8, PM. Monday, August 11, PM. First, I put in disk 5. It initially accepted the disk and looked at it for a second, and then it said that it was the incorrect disk. Then I removed disk 5 and inserted disk 1, and then continued with disks after that.
I guess it needed to start on disk 5 to verify that it was a complete set. There must be a bad message in the program -- when it says "incorrect disk' it really means 'put in the next disk' So, this technique works fine! Saturday, August 23, AM. There is a bit of a trick to this that I found after screwing around for a couple of days sigh.
The primary problem that I had was an inability to enumerate the backups on other hard drives. Then, following some of the info from some of the posts here I looked into wbadmin. You'll have an easier time of it if you pull that doc from MS, by the way. Among the commands allowable under Vista were two that did the trick, one that discovered the hard drives in the system, and the second one, "Get Versions.
From that point, the restoration proceeded along just fine, and my almost GB of backed up data was restored to another identical hard drive, and it booted up like a charm. The issue, and forgive me, but why hasn't MS fixed this yet, is as stated, an inability to enumerate the backup files.
Whether this was because I had more than one spare hard drive in my system or because I had copied my backup folder to at least one other drive so I'd have a backup of my backup, I don't know, can't say, and won't speculate. Obviously it is a problem for more people than just myself. The "trick" if it is such was enumerating the drives and "getting the versions" from within wbadmin, which for whatever reason and however it did so made the automatic enumeration of the backup images appear within the automated restore process.
Just a comment, but would a browse button have been too much to have included, or was the restore process considered so "foolproof" that it inadvertently became "foolhardy? I've had something like 30 years in the PC, communications and network business, and the only reason I don't crown myself King is that there has to be someone out there better at it than I am.
I've also been one very good troubleshooter, mostly because I'm just stubborn enough to always fix my screw-ups and in the process have learned a lot about fixing arcane problems. This one had me stumped, but forever is only if you give up, and I don't give up. I just hope that MS reads this and adds a browse button or looks into the enumeration process to make sure that any and all contingencies are covered, but mostly, I hope this helps someone out there with an unrecoverable but perfectly good image backup that they can't now restore.
Cheers and good luck. Monday, August 25, AM. Please search the MS site for information on wbadmin - then, first, you have to list the disks.
And, if you're using Vista, as stated in the documents, you can't use wbadmin to do a system restore; that function only works for Server However, as I noted, if you can't enumerate the backups using the Vista restore, FIRST use wbadmin to list your hard drive s and then enumerate your backup s. THEN, close the "command window" type 'exit' on the command line taking you back to the list of choices from the repair window. Select the restore option, and I think you'll find your backup s listed then.
Then, Vista will actually restore your system from the image backup. Tuesday, August 26, PM. I actually fixed my problem already Wednesday, August 27, AM. Just a general observation on the source of the problem: I'm pretty sure this is occurring when you move the backup image to any directory other than where it was originally. Wednesday, September 17, PM. Could you say more about how you "activated" your backup drive? Did you do a restore from a DVD, an external hard drive, or a different partion of your local drive?
Thanks for any insights! Wednesday, September 24, AM. Enter these commands So easy after spending 3 days searching Good luck! Monday, September 29, PM. How you finally fix the problem after the mistake of omitting the first level in the copy paste? Sunday, October 12, PM. Could you explain how to list my hard drives and enumerate the backup with wbadmin? I run it and used the get version and doesn't recognize it. Hello I have the same problem of not recognition of the backup file.
I tried wbadmin but it recognize other backup, but not the one that I need. Did you use a program like Ghost or Acronis? If you used the Vista tools to do this I will not be able to help since I have never used that tool and someone else will join in shortly with advice.
If so did you just do a drag and drop or did you use something like Roxio or Nero. XPS Core 2 Quad 2. Latitude 10 Tablet. If you backed up the files to the same partition as the os then you more than likely lost them when you did the reinstall.
I've figured it out. All I had to do was go to backup and restore center in the control panel, then choose advanced restore located beneath the restore files button; then choose advanced restore again and pick the option to restore from another computer I appreciate it guys for given me your advice anyway.
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Thank you for your time and expertise - any additional info you can give me would be greatfully appreciated. If it passes, I will come back to you LOL. Thank you for all your help. Should I still try to recover the files with the recovery you suggested or is that a mute point seeing as there are no corrupted files?? Once I did this, I was able to see smartware.
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