Re: Acronis Vista Restore Didn't Work

"Journey" <rainbow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:j2vf13dn1s8hl5eekh58sog8stb6r18cj9@xxxxxxxxxx
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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