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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:18:36 -0500, RnR wrote:
Journey, no offense but you are confirming why I want to stay away from Vista as long as possible. Don't misunderstand, I'm NOT blaming you but rather learning from you that it's not worth my effort unbugging MS's messed up new OS. Oh yeah, get some sleep grin. Actually I didn't plan on going to Vista till at least SP1 anyway but I'm not sure if I should wait even longer now. I haven't heard any WOW from anyone. If you have two hard drives, you can safely (as far as I know) install to each and enable and disable in the bios. There is probably a more elegant way. In my case I did a Vista image restore. It's either my incomplete understanding of something, maybe I missed something when creating the image, or maybe I need to download an update from Acronis. One of the payoffs for me of doing all this is that I continue to learn useful things. The sooner I can get into Vista, even if it's a secondary option, the more I will be able to understand and take in what I read because. |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:38:14 -0400, "Phil"
wrote: People just blindly expect the new OS to work flawlessly with all their legacy hardware and software. When reality comes flooding in, they blame the OS, and not their own impulsive decision-making process. This certainly isn't the case with me if you've been reading my posts. I don't think you meant it to apply to me. |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:38:14 -0400, "Phil"
wrote: Journey's problem has absolutely nothing to do with Vista, and is likely due to an incomplete restoration of the active partition and MBR. There were 4 things available to be restored, which I did: - Major C: partition - MBR - One 10G partition - One more -- maybe the utility partition So, I did have everything covered. |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:20:00 -0400, "pen" wrote:
My point was that XP and Vista mess up each others boot scenario, therefore restoring either to a drive which had the other installed will probably mess up the boot. Vista messes with the MBR. When I installed XP, I did a fresh install, total replace of the drivet that Vista was on (after taking the Vista image). I tried to install Vista on a separate, new disk that previously didn't have an OS installed. |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
"Journey" wrote in message
... On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:38:14 -0400, "Phil" wrote: People just blindly expect the new OS to work flawlessly with all their legacy hardware and software. When reality comes flooding in, they blame the OS, and not their own impulsive decision-making process. This certainly isn't the case with me if you've been reading my posts. I don't think you meant it to apply to me. Yeah, my reply was to RnR, with a general reaction to Vista critics, tossed-in. -phil |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 15:29:54 -0500, Journey wrote:
I ran into problems when I tried to restore the Vista image to one of the two new hard drives. Everything seemed to restore OK but when I tried to boot from it I wasn't able to. Because I have a fresh install of Vista, this is my time to get this right so that I will have confidence later on to take backups. I am sure there is a resolution. It may be user error -- I did back up and try to restore everything. I can go thru it again and maybe ask on the forums there and their technical support. Once I get it working I'll post back here. |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
"Journey" wrote in message
... On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:18:36 -0500, RnR wrote: Journey, no offense but you are confirming why I want to stay away from Vista as long as possible. Don't misunderstand, I'm NOT blaming you but rather learning from you that it's not worth my effort unbugging MS's messed up new OS. Oh yeah, get some sleep grin. Actually I didn't plan on going to Vista till at least SP1 anyway but I'm not sure if I should wait even longer now. I haven't heard any WOW from anyone. If you have two hard drives, you can safely (as far as I know) install to each and enable and disable in the bios. There is probably a more elegant way. In my case I did a Vista image restore. It's either my incomplete understanding of something, maybe I missed something when creating the image, or maybe I need to download an update from Acronis. One of the payoffs for me of doing all this is that I continue to learn useful things. The sooner I can get into Vista, even if it's a secondary option, the more I will be able to understand and take in what I read because. I assume that you have an Acronis boot CD. If so, just start over, and only restore your C: (set to active) partition and MBR. Restore the OS and then the MBR, in two separate operations. If you have any secondary HDDs, it may help to disconnect them before booting with the Acronis media. -phil |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
"Journey" wrote in message
... On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:20:00 -0400, "pen" wrote: My point was that XP and Vista mess up each others boot scenario, therefore restoring either to a drive which had the other installed will probably mess up the boot. Vista messes with the MBR. When I installed XP, I did a fresh install, total replace of the drivet that Vista was on (after taking the Vista image). I tried to install Vista on a separate, new disk that previously didn't have an OS installed. If I read this post of yours correctly that you installed XP onto a drive that had vista on it previously, then that is exactly a scenario that won't work. vistabootpro will help you there. |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 18:11:24 -0400, "Phil"
wrote: I assume that you have an Acronis boot CD. If so, just start over, and only restore your C: (set to active) partition and MBR. Restore the OS and then the MBR, in two separate operations. If you have any secondary HDDs, it may help to disconnect them before booting with the Acronis media. -phil Sounds good. Now when I restore the OS first, do I need to take sizing into account, in order to have room for the MBR? I am going to do another backup / recovery later in the day using this info. |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 18:12:58 -0400, "pen" wrote:
If I read this post of yours correctly that you installed XP onto a drive that had vista on it previously, then that is exactly a scenario that won't work. vistabootpro will help you there. OK, it's been working flawlessly for a week or so. Am I lucky or is there a bomb waiting to happen? |
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