Image Restore Fails
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:22 pm
Hello everyone, well it finally happened, my C:\ drive started to fail with read errors...
I created an Image back in April, so I felt confident I could just restore the drive to that point and move on, but no luck:
-I installed the new drive on sata-1 cable (the original drive was still on sata-0 cable).
-Booted to the R-Drive cd I made.
-I selected Image source & destination.
-It wrote the first 100mb partition, second 1Tb partition and the last 1Tb partition. (should I have writen these partitions before hand? or leave drive blank)
-The screen said it was writing the C:\ so I left it for the night knowing it should be finished by morning.
The next morning it was still sitting at the same point, no progress had been made at all, I ran the check Image for errors from the menu and it finished successfully. So I tried to restore it again, and it stopped at the same point, with no progress writing the C:\ data. This time I only let it sit for an hour or so before cutting off the power. I then tried to load the Image as a virtual drive and it loaded fine.
What am I doing wrong? It seems like a "no brainer" to do, I was using build 4727, now it is build 4738 because I seen the new build up and clicked the link, do I need to create a new startup disc?
I can't do a disc to disc because the old drive was slower than grass growing and stopped reading from time to time, until I powered the system OFF/ON, then it would come back to life. It was a pain just copying my data OFF it to another drive. I restored the drive from my WHS 2011 backup, but it marks the install as "restored" and a few of my copy protected videos won't play on any other machine but the original. Will R-Drive Image do the same thing? If it does then all this Backup stuff is pointless.
Hope someone can help me.
I created an Image back in April, so I felt confident I could just restore the drive to that point and move on, but no luck:
-I installed the new drive on sata-1 cable (the original drive was still on sata-0 cable).
-Booted to the R-Drive cd I made.
-I selected Image source & destination.
-It wrote the first 100mb partition, second 1Tb partition and the last 1Tb partition. (should I have writen these partitions before hand? or leave drive blank)
-The screen said it was writing the C:\ so I left it for the night knowing it should be finished by morning.
The next morning it was still sitting at the same point, no progress had been made at all, I ran the check Image for errors from the menu and it finished successfully. So I tried to restore it again, and it stopped at the same point, with no progress writing the C:\ data. This time I only let it sit for an hour or so before cutting off the power. I then tried to load the Image as a virtual drive and it loaded fine.
What am I doing wrong? It seems like a "no brainer" to do, I was using build 4727, now it is build 4738 because I seen the new build up and clicked the link, do I need to create a new startup disc?
I can't do a disc to disc because the old drive was slower than grass growing and stopped reading from time to time, until I powered the system OFF/ON, then it would come back to life. It was a pain just copying my data OFF it to another drive. I restored the drive from my WHS 2011 backup, but it marks the install as "restored" and a few of my copy protected videos won't play on any other machine but the original. Will R-Drive Image do the same thing? If it does then all this Backup stuff is pointless.
Hope someone can help me.