I had some software issues, and I decided to restore my SSD from a system image I had made a few days before, with Easeus.
But after restore, windows could not access the boot file.
I tried a bunch of recovery disks and command lines, but nothing worked.
when I tried to reinstall windows, once again 8.1 (but this time 64 bit), it said that my disk was not formatted with NTFS, and so I can't reinstall. (I have an older mobo, from before the windows 8 era. maybe that's related).
after messing around a little in gparted, and then going back to windows install, I was able to successfully reinstall.
question: is the format issue the reason why I couldn't boot up after restoring from a system image?
If so, how was I able to boot up until then?
And what can I do to avoid this problem in the future? I always thought that you could rely on restoring from a system image in a pinch, but this time, it let me down big time. I would have been better off wrestling a little more with the software issue. (it involved a conflict between two versions of Office that I unwisely installed on the same system. Now I learned my lesson, and I installed the alternative version of Office on a virtual machine.)
But after restore, windows could not access the boot file.
I tried a bunch of recovery disks and command lines, but nothing worked.
when I tried to reinstall windows, once again 8.1 (but this time 64 bit), it said that my disk was not formatted with NTFS, and so I can't reinstall. (I have an older mobo, from before the windows 8 era. maybe that's related).
after messing around a little in gparted, and then going back to windows install, I was able to successfully reinstall.
question: is the format issue the reason why I couldn't boot up after restoring from a system image?
If so, how was I able to boot up until then?
And what can I do to avoid this problem in the future? I always thought that you could rely on restoring from a system image in a pinch, but this time, it let me down big time. I would have been better off wrestling a little more with the software issue. (it involved a conflict between two versions of Office that I unwisely installed on the same system. Now I learned my lesson, and I installed the alternative version of Office on a virtual machine.)
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- windows 8.1 pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop