Win 8 system backup image restore error help

Steveyg777

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Hi there,

My windows 8 pro install messed up n i have almost 2.8tb of stuff on my drive on a 3tb hd. I have an identical hd as a backup which i have (an apparently successful) a backup of my system from a couple of weeks ago on. I had set the system to do scheduled backups of the system (set to backup a system image of efi partition and c. There were a few times where i was trying to get other things done and the systemwas running slow so i cancelled the backups when i noticed them running. The software stopped the backups (seemingly successfully).

As i say my system messed up - i came home to find out it was no longer downloading (as i had left it doing when i went to work) but was on a blue screen (bsod?) saying the system needs to be restarted. Since then it didnt work well at all and after dskchk reported that several sectors were damaged so it was moving data to spare sectors (or whatever it generally reports when this happens) there were a lot of files messed up or reported as deleted when doing a file recovery scan with recuvva.

So i decided to restore the backed up system image from the other hd. Incidentally i tried mounting the vhdx backup image from that hd via windows explorer which then reported "the disk needs formatting" and didnt get any success mounting via disk management either (it mounted in the app but didnt show up on windows explorer and if i tried to access info on it via disk management it reported the same"disk needs formatting prompt".

So when i booted my win 8 dvd it didnt work cos the dvd wasnt an efi booting version so i had to boot from a usb version with the efi bit included.

I formatted the system drive and chose to do an image restore. It started doing the restore (apparently) but every time i came back to it later i had the follwing error:

"Re-image your computer

The system image restore failed.

Error details: The requested system device cannot be identified due to multiple indistinguishable devices potentially matching the identification criteria Ox80073B92"

This seems to be a rare error judging by the fact that nothing comes up via google so i am desperately asking for ur help on this one! I cant bare to find out there is nothing i can do as it tuk me so long to set up my system n i have a lot of my own data on there too.

The system drive i formatted was created in diskpart and then re formatted with "format" command (as it created the disk in raw mode) so now it is ntfs mode (uncompressed).

Let me know if u need any more info too

Thanks in advance sooooooo much for ur help,

Steve
 

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You could try mounting it with something else.

Not sure if partition guru free will do it. The paid version handles vhd.

Once mounted, partition guru can make it's own image of the mounted drive., which can be restored.

You might need the paid version for that - worth looking at the freebie in case it does.

Data recovery, partition management and disk utilities - PartitionGuru Free
 

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A gud idea altho looking at the web site not even the paid pro version supports vhdx (only vhd which is for 2tb and less images) unfortunately :(

Any other recommendations or other solutions????
 

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As i dont have an install of windows i went to install a basic fresh version on the drive so i cud access and install some partitioning software as you recommended but when i went to choose the hd install location i noticed that it looks like the restore had worked (from looking at the setup of the drive), the only difference being that the hidden efi and reserved partitions were the other way around in order - wud this affect anything?

Anyway after restarting from the apparently newly restored hd it came to a window saying something like:

Mbr error 1
Please insert a floppy disk and press any key

Altho come to think of it i used to get this when i chose to boot directly from the old hd setup (via bios boot device settings) instead of the windows boot manager. But i had a actually chosen the win boot manager as the boot option. Im wondering if either The boot manager isnt set up to boot the new restored hd correctly OR the bootable section of the new hd isnt set up correctly?

Incidently (and this was already present before my system messed up) there are two boot manager boot options in the bios (one for each of the hd's - the backup hd used to be the system hd??????) and also an acronis loader from when i tried acronis out (not sure how to delete acronis loader or if i need TWO boot manager options????)

Ps sorry for all the questions - im still learning! :)
 

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This situation is very confusing. If I could, perhaps I wll restate what I seem to feel was your situation before your last post.

You have a system with two 3 TB hard drives with Windows 8 installed on one and an Old Windows 8 install on the other. When you try to re-image the the primary drive, you get a "don't know which one to use" type error message.

I have seen that error message. One possibility might be you need to completely remake the USB flash drive in case something was written to it. It has happened to me in Windows 8 while I was testing,although not sure it is the case here.

A drive needs room for things you might not realize. Running a 3 TB drive to a point it is completely full could very well create problems. If the re-image did not succeed, is your drive still in its original condition?

I might also think it could be the other drive which seems to contain an install. If the current install was a clone or image of the earlier install, it might explain the message, however, since the image is on that drive, it should not be involved, theoretically...

Could you explain your comment about "formatting the System Drive"? When you re-image, the entire drive is redone, not just specific partitions. If for some reason you only had one EFI partition and it was on the drive containing the backup, a re-image would probably not be allowed.

I was able to mount the .vhdx file but I had to give it a drive letter in Disk Management for it to show.

So, I have two requests. Please fill in your system info and be specific as to what in on that system. Some of that information might help resolve some problems.

Also, if you can, download and burn a Partition Management utility, like Partition Wizard Home Edition Bootable and use it to get us a picture of your drives and partitions. A camera works well for such things and attach using the paperclip on advanced replies.
 

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Hi there. Sorry ive only just seen ur reply. Thanks for ur advice. I got so fed up of messing about that i ended up doing a restore of the image again. Ive set up most of the system to how it was but currently after restarting its sitting on a black screen after logging in. The hd still seems busy so who knows what its doing! Disk defrag reported the hd as only being 0.8 percent fragged but also reported that some files couldnt be defragged as there was not enough space (contiguous space im guessing). Admittedly i do need to burn off a gud chunk of data to free up space but im shocked that such problems can occur from low space (by low space i mean only 200gb(!!!) free) my mac can cope with zilch free space! Amazing!

Regarding ur questions and requests i will endeavor to do them when i am next able. I am not free this evening but watch this space....
 

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Omg! Omg! Omg! Omg! Omg!

I HATE MICROSOFT SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!

Win 8 is sh*t! Microsoft are pr*cks!

Utter incompetence!

Its been ten days now an i still haven't even been able to reinstall win8 again. Ive tried restoring and the errors r present, ive tried booting win 8 install dvd/usb but all this crap with uefi and 64 bit boll*cks causes this to be a infinite nightmare. Microsoft themselves have a convoluted web site system and their phone lines incorrectly sent me to the wrong service for help.

I finally decided to install win 7 and upgrade to win 8 (only way i can get things to work) but the dumb sh*t installer wiped the wrong hd and then installed win 7 now ive gotta f*ck around finding a gud recovery app that is bootable and try to recover my partition with the old screwed up win 8 with all my files on!

Thanks microsoft u bast*rds!!!! F*cking idiots for making their os in such an irresponsible, flawed and convoluted way

Btw- yes this IS how pissed off this crap company and their primitive software can get me/anyone. I dint like wasting the best part of ten days of my free time to get nowhere only right back to zilch!!!

If i can be bothered to report anything in the future i will but right now i have lost the will to live...
 

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It is all going very well, obviously.

The secure boot / efi thing can be a real pita.

Are you in the UK?
 

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Yeah. Why?
 

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Might be able to drop you round boot media I made.

It has everything on there you might need.
 

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Where abouts do u live!? Ir can u share it to me via dropbox or something?
 

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    [C] Samsung 840 Pro 120Gb SSD - Boot & Apps
    [D] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Games
    [E] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Games & Media
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Have u got any recovery apps (as in undeleting apps)?
Or can u recommend any that r self bootable/live cd's so i can try to recover as much of my data as possible?
 

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    [D] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Games
    [E] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Games & Media
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I am uploading one I made right now. Will link you to it.

It is much better than anything else you can get.
 

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Thanks mate. Where do u live? Im from the west midlands
 

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    [C] Samsung 840 Pro 120Gb SSD - Boot & Apps
    [D] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Games
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Whats the latest on the file and those questions siw2?
 

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Well its been about SIX WEEKS since my system was operational (!) and almost five of them were spent trying to recover my own data off the hard drive to my backup drive cos i had accidentally reinstalled win 7 to the wrong hdd! Oops!

Siw2 sent me a useful iso to burn to try to recover the files (thanks siw2 for ur help and time) but it turned out the software (minitool recovery) wasnt any gud at recovering my files as it kept crashing during the recovery process (after it had finally finished scanning the drive for hours upon hours).

I tried several other apps that all failed in various ways (to be honest i think the winpe environment didnt want to play ball with my system as it reported only 4gb ram when i has 16gb as well as other reasons...

I can confirm that an app finally worked amazingly (launched from a new install of win 7) called (ZAR) zero assumption recovery. I sing its praises!

Anyway ive got to the point where im trying to install win 8 but just cannot get it installed!

Ive tried installing win 7 and upgrading from the desktop to win 8, booting up from an install dvd and usb drive and nothing works no matter how i format or dont format the intended hdd. Every way just doesnt work - it either says it cant install to the drive before even trying or it gets to between 30-40% of the initial process and says i stall failed! Wtf!

Any answers?

My system:
asus sabretooth 990fx rev 1 mobo
16gb corsair vengeance ram
2x 3tb seagate hdd
pioneer bdr drive
amd six core 3.3ghz pile driver cpu
msi 7870 2gb oc gfx card
 

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    AMD Pile Driver 6 Core 3.3Ghz
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    ASUS Sabretooth 990FX [Rev 1]
    Memory
    Corsair Vengeance 16 Gb DRAM @ 1600Mhz
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI AMD Radeon 7870 Twin Frozr III 2Gb OC Edition
    Sound Card
    Onboard ASUS Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG 22" Monitor
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080 [1080p]
    Hard Drives
    [C] Samsung 840 Pro 120Gb SSD - Boot & Apps
    [D] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Games
    [E] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Games & Media
    [B] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Backup Drive
    All SATA 6/3Gbps
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I forgot to mention that my mobo is uefi and my os i stalls are win 7 64bit ultimate edition and win 8 pro 64 bit
 

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    [C] Samsung 840 Pro 120Gb SSD - Boot & Apps
    [D] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Games
    [E] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Games & Media
    [B] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Backup Drive
    All SATA 6/3Gbps
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Run chkdsk /r on the drive (which checks for both errors and bad sectors).

Disconnecting one of the hard drives. Then the hard drive you are going to install to, delete all the partitions on it and recreate new ones and format and then do a clean install. After the install is complete, reconnect the second hard drive.
 

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    Other Info
    Win 8.1.1 and Office 2013 via Virtualbox
Just FYI, i read a similar post about restoring an image not working in win 8.. Turns out when the other person removed the USB boot flashdrive after selecting restore, THEN it worked flawlessly. But as long as the flashdrive was still connected, the image always aborted and failed at some point...

As for your attempt to install Win 8, please send us a snapshot of your disk management to see how your harddrives are configured..

You should label your partitions so that they are not confused during installation..

Names and letters of drives and partitions are for US as humans to understand, windows does not see the installations as such, it just sees Disk 0 Partition 1 or Disk 1 Partition 3 etc....
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 & Windows 7 Dual Boot
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP G60
    CPU
    AMD Turion RM-70 Dual Core 2.0 GHZ
    Memory
    3 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia GeForce 8200M G
    Screen Resolution
    1366 x 768
    Mouse
    MS Intellipoint 5 button (love it!)
    Browser
    Chrome and Chromium
    Antivirus
    Avast Free & Malwarebytes
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