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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
I took an image of my Vista C: drive prior to replacing Vista on my
XPS 410 with a fresh install of XP. I backed up all partitions on the C: drive. Since then I added two hard drives. My plan is to have XP on one drive, Vista on another, and a 3rd for data. I will disable either the XP or Vista drive in the bios when wanting to switch between the OS's 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. I tried everything, different combinations, restoring only C:. Upon booting a dialog came up asking if I wanted to repair the installation, restore to a prior system restore point, and use the Dell recovery partition. It even went into the Dell recovery partition and restored and said it was successful, but it wouldn't boot correctly, so it really wasn't successful. This was an all-nighter effort. Not really worth it if all I wanted to do was install Vista. A fresh install is much easier. This was, however, instended to be a test of my "disaster recovery" procedure. I wanted to be sure I could do it in a non-emergency situation so that if things get corrputed in the future I know I can rely on backups. So, right now I don't have faith in my ability to take backup images that I can restore to. I will check the Acronis site to see if there are Vista updates. I assumed not since I bought it not too long ago, but that is the first thing I should have checked. On the positive side, doing a fresh install of Vista was the easiest install I have ever done. I don't know if the Vista Business CD from Dell has drivers on that CD. If not, Windows did a great job of identifying things. |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
"Journey" wrote in message
... I took an image of my Vista C: drive prior to replacing Vista on my XPS 410 with a fresh install of XP. I backed up all partitions on the C: drive. Since then I added two hard drives. My plan is to have XP on one drive, Vista on another, and a 3rd for data. I will disable either the XP or Vista drive in the bios when wanting to switch between the OS's 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. I tried everything, different combinations, restoring only C:. Upon booting a dialog came up asking if I wanted to repair the installation, restore to a prior system restore point, and use the Dell recovery partition. It even went into the Dell recovery partition and restored and said it was successful, but it wouldn't boot correctly, so it really wasn't successful. This was an all-nighter effort. Not really worth it if all I wanted to do was install Vista. A fresh install is much easier. This was, however, instended to be a test of my "disaster recovery" procedure. I wanted to be sure I could do it in a non-emergency situation so that if things get corrputed in the future I know I can rely on backups. So, right now I don't have faith in my ability to take backup images that I can restore to. I will check the Acronis site to see if there are Vista updates. I assumed not since I bought it not too long ago, but that is the first thing I should have checked. On the positive side, doing a fresh install of Vista was the easiest install I have ever done. I don't know if the Vista Business CD from Dell has drivers on that CD. If not, Windows did a great job of identifying things. Vista uses a new MBR which messes up XP. Get Vistabootpro and fix it. http://www.vistabootpro.org/ |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:39:26 -0400, "pen" wrote:
On the positive side, doing a fresh install of Vista was the easiest install I have ever done. I don't know if the Vista Business CD from Dell has drivers on that CD. If not, Windows did a great job of identifying things. Vista uses a new MBR which messes up XP. Get Vistabootpro and fix it. http://www.vistabootpro.org/ When you day it messes up XP, what do you mean. If XP and Vista are on separate hard disks, and I disable the one not used in the bios when starting up does Vista mess up XP in that scenario? I looked at vistabootpro, and they start out jumping into the topic without saying what it is. That irriates the he** out of me. Just tell me wtf it is my time is important. Is it a dual boot manager for having Vista and XP on the same physical hard drive? I would like to see the manual online before downloading or installing. If my solution above is fine, I will stick with that for a while. If there is a problem wtih it, anyone, plese let me know. Thanks. |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:39:26 -0400, "pen" wrote:
Vista uses a new MBR which messes up XP. Get Vistabootpro and fix it. http://www.vistabootpro.org/ P.S. -- would this tool have aided in my restoring my Vista image? I thought an image was an exact image of the disk and that if in the boot sequence it would be OK if restored. |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
"Journey" wrote in message
... I took an image of my Vista C: drive prior to replacing Vista on my XPS 410 with a fresh install of XP. I backed up all partitions on the C: drive. Since then I added two hard drives. My plan is to have XP on one drive, Vista on another, and a 3rd for data. I will disable either the XP or Vista drive in the bios when wanting to switch between the OS's 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. I tried everything, different combinations, restoring only C:. Upon booting a dialog came up asking if I wanted to repair the installation, restore to a prior system restore point, and use the Dell recovery partition. It even went into the Dell recovery partition and restored and said it was successful, but it wouldn't boot correctly, so it really wasn't successful. This was an all-nighter effort. Not really worth it if all I wanted to do was install Vista. A fresh install is much easier. This was, however, instended to be a test of my "disaster recovery" procedure. I wanted to be sure I could do it in a non-emergency situation so that if things get corrputed in the future I know I can rely on backups. So, right now I don't have faith in my ability to take backup images that I can restore to. I will check the Acronis site to see if there are Vista updates. I assumed not since I bought it not too long ago, but that is the first thing I should have checked. On the positive side, doing a fresh install of Vista was the easiest install I have ever done. I don't know if the Vista Business CD from Dell has drivers on that CD. If not, Windows did a great job of identifying things. When you restored your C: drive (Active partition) did you also restore the MBR? -phil |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
"Journey" wrote in message
... On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:39:26 -0400, "pen" wrote: On the positive side, doing a fresh install of Vista was the easiest install I have ever done. I don't know if the Vista Business CD from Dell has drivers on that CD. If not, Windows did a great job of identifying things. Vista uses a new MBR which messes up XP. Get Vistabootpro and fix it. http://www.vistabootpro.org/ When you day it messes up XP, what do you mean. If XP and Vista are on separate hard disks, and I disable the one not used in the bios when starting up does Vista mess up XP in that scenario? I looked at vistabootpro, and they start out jumping into the topic without saying what it is. That irriates the he** out of me. Just tell me wtf it is my time is important. Is it a dual boot manager for having Vista and XP on the same physical hard drive? I would like to see the manual online before downloading or installing. If my solution above is fine, I will stick with that for a while. If there is a problem wtih it, anyone, plese let me know. Thanks. I assumed from your bleat that you were trying to run XP on a drive that had had vista on it. If not then ignore what I said. As far as to Vistabootpro's page I sent you to is a full explanation of what it is how you missed that is unclear to me as you had to scroll past it to get to the download. |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:01:05 -0500, Journey wrote:
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:39:26 -0400, "pen" wrote: Vista uses a new MBR which messes up XP. Get Vistabootpro and fix it. http://www.vistabootpro.org/ P.S. -- would this tool have aided in my restoring my Vista image? I thought an image was an exact image of the disk and that if in the boot sequence it would be OK if restored. 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. |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
"Journey" wrote in message
... On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:39:26 -0400, "pen" wrote: Vista uses a new MBR which messes up XP. Get Vistabootpro and fix it. http://www.vistabootpro.org/ P.S. -- would this tool have aided in my restoring my Vista image? I thought an image was an exact image of the disk and that if in the boot sequence it would be OK if restored. 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. |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
"RnR" wrote in message ...
On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:01:05 -0500, Journey wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:39:26 -0400, "pen" wrote: Vista uses a new MBR which messes up XP. Get Vistabootpro and fix it. http://www.vistabootpro.org/ P.S. -- would this tool have aided in my restoring my Vista image? I thought an image was an exact image of the disk and that if in the boot sequence it would be OK if restored. 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. Journey's problem has absolutely nothing to do with Vista, and is likely due to an incomplete restoration of the active partition and MBR. The major problem that comes with a new OS is the inevitability that many people will make the jump without any clue as to what they are doing. 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. It's also rather humorous how many people look to SP1 as this panacea, as if SP1 is going to somehow make proper nVidia, HP, or Creative drivers magically appear. Folks, if your hardware doesn't have proper Vista drivers, or your software applications aren't Vista ready, you will have problems. Otherwise, Vista will run better than any previous vanilla release of a MS OS. (The migration from XP to Vista has been a lot smoother than 2000 to XP.) -phil |
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Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:08:48 -0400, "Phil"
wrote: When you restored your C: drive (Active partition) did you also restore the MBR? -phil Yes |
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