seekforever
January 24th, 2006, 11:21 AM
I have recovered from this but am posting to find out if perhaps I could have recovered more easily and how I seem to have gotten into the problem in the first place. This happened at 1AM last night and is the best of my recollection as to the details.
I wanted to use some programs that I have in a different image so I made a verfied backup of current C drive, (Image A). All this is using standalone CD version with verified images. I started the restore of the other image but while 3/4 through it realized I was using wrong image and hit cancel which stopped the process. Did restore of correct image (Image B) and at end it said it was corrupted. Checked image and it was OK so attempted restore again and it worked. Thought that fixed it up.
Went to restore Image A and it ran and said corrupted at the end. Rebooted the CD to run again and went to check this forum while it was restarting. I wasn't paying attention and I guess the startup selection (Full, Safe, XP) timed-out and XP startup screen is on monitor.This doesn't make sense since there was no successful restore and the original C drive is unallocated space!!! Rebooted TI but now I have unallocated space and drive letters are wrong! C is used and can't be reassigned.
Blew away old full disk backup a few days ago to get more space (a reason for burning some images to DVD as well) so that wasn't option. My old and unused rescue diskettes of Partition Magic 8 won't run (SATA issue?). So I booted up XP install CD and couldn't see anything about letter changing so converted the unallocated space caused by restore failure to partition and quick formatted it with NTFS.
Now when run TI restore it thankfully sees the empty space as a partition and assigns C to it and I do a successful restore first time.
Moral of this story seems to be don't cancel out of a restore just let it do its thing. I am a bit confused about the drive letter issue. When I restored Image B after the first failure the drive letters were still correct which is why I think XP or some part of it did startup as described above.
I wanted to use some programs that I have in a different image so I made a verfied backup of current C drive, (Image A). All this is using standalone CD version with verified images. I started the restore of the other image but while 3/4 through it realized I was using wrong image and hit cancel which stopped the process. Did restore of correct image (Image B) and at end it said it was corrupted. Checked image and it was OK so attempted restore again and it worked. Thought that fixed it up.
Went to restore Image A and it ran and said corrupted at the end. Rebooted the CD to run again and went to check this forum while it was restarting. I wasn't paying attention and I guess the startup selection (Full, Safe, XP) timed-out and XP startup screen is on monitor.This doesn't make sense since there was no successful restore and the original C drive is unallocated space!!! Rebooted TI but now I have unallocated space and drive letters are wrong! C is used and can't be reassigned.
Blew away old full disk backup a few days ago to get more space (a reason for burning some images to DVD as well) so that wasn't option. My old and unused rescue diskettes of Partition Magic 8 won't run (SATA issue?). So I booted up XP install CD and couldn't see anything about letter changing so converted the unallocated space caused by restore failure to partition and quick formatted it with NTFS.
Now when run TI restore it thankfully sees the empty space as a partition and assigns C to it and I do a successful restore first time.
Moral of this story seems to be don't cancel out of a restore just let it do its thing. I am a bit confused about the drive letter issue. When I restored Image B after the first failure the drive letters were still correct which is why I think XP or some part of it did startup as described above.