TI 2009 Home WinXP Restore - Numerous Post Install Errors

[wbskull02]

Hello...I just purchased TI 2009 home, and am testing it on my dell notebook.
My intent is to create an image of the C: drive, and back it up to the D drive (D is an extended NTFS partition at the end of the same physical drive as C).

I booted off the TI cd, started full version, did a full backup to a file on the D drive with high compression, and all appeared well.

To test the restore, I formatted the C drive NTFS, again booted from the CD and selected restore. I selected the D:\imagefile as the source, C drive as the dest,

Here is the first curious thing - the TI GUI did NOT let me select restore to original destination...it was greyed out / not selectable. I don't understand why.

So I continued selecting install to new location, and selected the formatted c drive as the destation. I have tried this process multiple times testing the "restore file permissions" options - and either way I end up with the same results....

The results of the operation (I've done the restore at least 5 times so far testing various options)...

The C drive boots XP, I can log in, and then I start trying to do things to verify the OS operation. I start the Defrag tool, and it can't see the data on the C drive, I start MS-Office apps and it says user doesn't have permission to the apps run install and fix, but at the same time starts the Office App, but you can't use it because it times out trying to re-install the app. I get a number of similarly strange errors that seem like various parts of the OS and app aren't installed, registered, or starting correctly - to the point is that the system is unusable.

Any hints, clues suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong?
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[jmk94903]

Originally Posted by wbskull02

...My intent is to create an image of the C: drive, and back it up to the D drive (D is an extended NTFS partition at the end of the same physical drive as C).

I booted off the TI cd, started full version, did a full backup to a file on the D drive with high compression, and all appeared well.

To test the restore, I formatted the C drive NTFS, again booted from the CD and selected restore. I selected the D:\imagefile as the source, C drive as the dest,

Here is the first curious thing - the TI GUI did NOT let me select restore to original destination...it was greyed out / not selectable. I don't understand why.

What did you select to backup? If you selected only the C: partition and backed that up to D:, then it should restore without problem. I've done that lots of times.

Of course, storing the backup on the same drive provides no protection against drive failure, but it allows a quick recovery from a corrupted boot partition.

So I continued selecting install to new location, and selected the formatted c drive as the destation.

OK, now I'm confused. You said that C: was grayed out, but you could select it?

You did make a full partition image backup and not a files and folders backup didn't you? And you are restoring a the full image or a full partition from the image, aren't you?

With image backups, I've never seen the restore to original position comments. That does however apply to file and folder restores.

[wbskull02]

Hi thanks for the post...your assistance will be greatly appreciated!!
Yes that's all I'm trying to do - backup the entire C drive so when the OS install gets messed up I can easily wipe / restore with a clean install and most of the apps.

During Restore - I seem to remember the option being "restore to original location", and that option is greyed out. The option below is restore selected files - which I can select, and then on the next screen I select to restore all the files to C drive.

I'm looking at the TI User guide PDF now on page 55 (6.3.3) and I don't get "Restore Whole Disk Or Partition" Option. instead I believe that the option reads "restore to original location" and is greyed out.

I don't remember the exact things I clicked to create the backup, but booting off the TI CD, selecting backup, selecting the C drive, and then choosing FULL back (versus Inc, Diff). Then it imaged the drive (just the used space not sector by sector) to the 8 Gb D drive creating one image file.

My C drive is around 50GB, with 20% used...my D drive is 8GB, and the image ends up being 6+GB. I only mention this to note that I want to do an image of used files / space (the 20%), not sector by sector backup up all 50GB - 80% of which has no data.

I can't tell if I am doing the backup incorrectly or restore.

Please help...And Much Thanks in advance.

A TI Newbie...
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[jmk94903]

Originally Posted by wbskull02

...Yes that's all I'm trying to do - backup the entire C drive so when the OS install gets messed up I can easily wipe / restore with a clean install and most of the apps.

During Restore - I seem to remember the option being "restore to original location", and that option is greyed out. The option below is restore selected files - which I can select, and then on the next screen I select to restore all the files to C drive...

1. When you boot from the TI 2009 Rescue CD, you need to select Manage or Restore.
2. If you don't see your backup listed, click the browse button on the right. Find the backup.
3. Then click on the backup.
4. Click Restore on the top menu line.
5. The Restore Wizard starts, select Restore whole disks and partitions
6. Select by the check boxes the items to restore. Choose C: and MBR, etc.)

From there on it's just confirming that the right drive and partition are chosen as the targets for the restore. There is nothing about "original locations" on any of the screens when you do a whole disk and partition restore.

OK?