Acronis Restore Problem

[Kintar]

I've had an issue recently restoring an Acronis True Image 10 Home
edition full-disk backup of Vista Ultimate 64. I have to boot the
recovery system in safe mode, but other than that, everything appears
to work properly restoring the OS. Unfortunately, once I get to the
boot screen, Vista complains that a system file (I wrote down the name
and promptly lost the paper before I got to work, sorry for the lack of
detail here) is "missing or corrupt".

Now, the only things I can think of that might affect this are the fact
that I have two OSes installed on this drive (XP SP2 and Vista
Ultimate), and that the Acronis documentation says to use "Active" as
the partition type to restore an OS, even though the original partition
was detected as "Primary".

Has anyone else run into a similar problem with the missing/corrupt
files, and if so, have you managed to resolve it? Are there known
issues with a dual-boot setup? Should I have used "Active" as the
partition type even though Acronis detected it as a primary?

Thanks,

-- Kintar


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Kintar <Kintar.2tttbf@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in
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> Now, the only things I can think of that might affect this are the fact
> that I have two OSes installed on this drive (XP SP2 and Vista
> Ultimate), and that the Acronis documentation says to use "Active" as
> the partition type to restore an OS, even though the original partition
> was detected as "Primary".

Acronis will automatically tell you the type of the original partition, use
that, don't change it.

 

[Kintar]

> Acronis will automatically tell you the type of the original partition,
> use
> that, don't change it.

Yeah, as stated above, I didn't change the partition type from the
pre-selected "Primary" type, so that leaves me right where I started.


EDIT: Okay, after re-reading my original post, that wasn't clearly
stated. ) I used the auto-selected partition type when restoring.


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"Kintar" <Kintar.2tttbf@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> I've had an issue recently restoring an Acronis True Image 10 Home
> edition full-disk backup of Vista Ultimate 64. I have to boot the
> recovery system in safe mode, but other than that, everything appears
> to work properly restoring the OS. Unfortunately, once I get to the
> boot screen, Vista complains that a system file (I wrote down the name
> and promptly lost the paper before I got to work, sorry for the lack of
> detail here) is "missing or corrupt".
>

You have likely not restored the MBR with the restore. You can either
restore ALL of the image again or you can use your Vista disk to boot off
and go to the repair prompt to write a new MBR and Bootblock.

 

[Kintar]

> You have likely not restored the MBR with the restore.
Really? I figured since the MBR already pointed to that partition,
everything would be kosher. Thanks, I'll give that a shot this
evening.

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[Kintar]

Nope, that wasn't it. Even running the bootrec tool from the install
DVD with both options (rebuild bcd and fix boot) doesn't fix it I had
to run the automated startup repair, at which point Vista reinstalled
the boot manager and everything was fine.

Honestly, with it being this much trouble I think I'm just going to ask
Acronis for my money back and use the system backup that came with
Vista. :/

-- Kin


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"Kintar" <Kintar.2tvfng@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> Nope, that wasn't it. Even running the bootrec tool from the install
> DVD with both options (rebuild bcd and fix boot) doesn't fix it I had
> to run the automated startup repair, at which point Vista reinstalled
> the boot manager and everything was fine.
>
> Honestly, with it being this much trouble I think I'm just going to ask
> Acronis for my money back and use the system backup that came with
> Vista. :/
>
> -- Kin
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Try this Forum
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?s=e12532617f67ec72978c89a3cc1ade7a&f=65
This is the official Acronis TI help forum. You will get excellent help.

 

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"Kintar" <Kintar.2tvfng@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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>
> Nope, that wasn't it. Even running the bootrec tool from the install
> DVD with both options (rebuild bcd and fix boot) doesn't fix it I had
> to run the automated startup repair, at which point Vista reinstalled
> the boot manager and everything was fine.
>
> Honestly, with it being this much trouble I think I'm just going to ask
> Acronis for my money back and use the system backup that came with
> Vista. :/
>

I would say you have either done something wrong or suffered an unfortunate
stuffup in the backup. I have had to restore my Vista Business before. About
66 gigs of info restored in around 20 minutes without any problem at all.
Unfortunately, though, you cant always believe that the last backup is OK no
matter what prog you use. Before finding True Image, I used to use Ghost 9
(Ghost 10 was crap even on XP) and Powerquest Drive Image (various versions)
which was eventually bought by Nortons and renamed as Ghost 9 and stuffed up
thereafter and at no time did I believe the last backup was fine. I was only
happy if it was. I used to keep 3 backups once and I remember the hard drive
blowing. The last 2 backups were corrupt but thankfully, the third, about 3
weeks old, was OK. If you want to make sure you have a safe backup, keep at
least 3.