Restoring an image of the Free Windows 10.... years later

Discussion in 'other software & services' started by chattycathy, May 22, 2016.

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  1. MisterB

    MisterB Registered Member

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    I would usually get an infinite logon logoff loop with Xp. It didn't break activation and shouldn't. It can be fixed by manually editing the registry offline but that is not much fun, better just to restore again and make sure the drive is set up for the OS partition to be C:. I've found various problems with imaging software when it analyzes and alters data and sometimes only a sector by sector backup will work but that has never happened with Windows 7.
     
    MisterB, Jun 5, 2016
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  2. oliverjia

    oliverjia Registered Member

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    I have been using Terabyte IFL/IFW and Acronis as my main imagers for Win7/8/10 in a dual boot (all with Ubuntu Linux) setting, and I have never experience such kind of activation/boot problems. Always works fine as it should.
     
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  3. Brian K

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    Pete's description is accurate. But the "Not activated" message is false because when you correct the drive letter, everything is normal. You only see this "Not activated" message with Win7.

    To fix WinXP takes 30 seconds. Just zero the Disk Signature. WinXP then re-calculates new drive letters.
    To fix Win7/Win10 takes 60 seconds. Zero the Disk Signature and do a BCD Edit.

    Editing the Registry offline is fine but it's not as fast as above.

    It's been years since I've done this but using Ghost, Drive Snapshot or Acronis, I could make a WinXP or Win7 restore fail every time if I broke the Cloning Rules.
     
    Brian K, Jun 5, 2016
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  4. Peter2150

    Peter2150 Global Moderator

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    Two things.

    1. What Brian said about my results triggered a memory. The way I used to restore Shadoprotect images, was to select the image. Then on the destination screen, I select an option on the c: drive to delete the volume. That would leave the drive unallocated and unformatted. I would the create a new partition on all the unallocated space, and do the restore, restoring data,mbr, all the hidden track, and signature. Then at the end of the restore SP would do a fix on the BCD.

    I went back and did that and the restore worked fine, but then it also illustrated the other thing I said.

    2. The disk was so out of date it was next to useless. License, program versions etc. So what you need to do is pick your OS, but also periodically restore the other OS, and keep it up to date, reimage and the you should be good to go.

    Pete
     
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