BartPE with Mustang Plugin

[Maclab]

I have tried creating a BartPE boot cd using the Mustang Plugin but something is not working correctly. I can open TI9 Enterprise from the "Start" Menu but when I do a restore I do not see a Universal Restore option. Any ideas?

As well the restore time is very long. It took approx 3 minutes to create the 3GB image but it takes over an hour to restore. I am restoring to a MS Virtual Server on a Dell PowerEdge 2650 running Windows Server 2003.

[jaycee]

Hi,

For the universal Restore plugin, make sure you use the latest version of Acronis AND of Mustang's plugin.

Secondly when you restore to Virtual Server, you should as a best practice restore to virtual IDE drives (with a SCSI card attached though)
Once restore is finished, and VMAdditions installed, you can "attach" VHDs as SCSI!

Good work,

Jaycee

[Maclab]

Thanks for the advice. I will try the IDE drives as suggested.

[Maclab]

Ok I have recreated the BartPe boot disc using XPe instead and loaded the mustang plug-in. I now have the universal restore option. Unfortunately now after restoring the image my virtual server does not boot. It just hangs at a black screen with "_" blinking in the corner. I have tried using the acronis boot cd and I am now having the same results. I have also tried with a newly created image and with Vmware and always the same. Any ideas would be appreciated. As well I am now using IDE drives and I do see an improvment in restore time.

[Maclab]

Sorry I seem to have answered my own question. I was required to restore the mbr as well.