Help with DriveImage XML please.
Josiah Jenkins
Briefly, it looks as though I may have to re-install Vista
(Home Premium) on my C: drive. I don't have a Windows
CD, I have a 'Recovery Disk' supplied by the manufacturer,
Fujitsu-Siemens, which clearly states :
'All data, applications and settings will be deleted'
I have made a backup of C: to an external drive using
DriveImage.
Q1
If I end up with a clean Windows install . . .
Can I restore *PART* of the backup ?
For example, the 'Program Files' folder ?
Q2
What happens with registry entries relating to these ?
As a fallback, I'm currently building a folder with the
installation files for the programs I have loaded.
Any help appreciated.
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Caesar Romano
<josiah-jenkins@somewhere_else.invalid> wrote Re Help with DriveImage
XML please.:
>Hoping someone who has used this program can advise.
>
>Briefly, it looks as though I may have to re-install Vista
>(Home Premium) on my C: drive. I don't have a Windows
>CD, I have a 'Recovery Disk' supplied by the manufacturer,
>Fujitsu-Siemens, which clearly states :
>'All data, applications and settings will be deleted'
>
>I have made a backup of C: to an external drive using
>DriveImage.
>
>Q1
>If I end up with a clean Windows install . . .
>Can I restore *PART* of the backup ?
>For example, the 'Program Files' folder ?
Yes, you can do that. You can also restore individual files from a
DIxml backup.
>
>Q2
>What happens with registry entries relating to these ?
>
Nothing. No changes to the registry.
>As a fallback, I'm currently building a folder with the
>installation files for the programs I have loaded.
>
>Any help appreciated.
If you used DIxml to make a C: image, why not just restore the entire
image? You will need a bootable Vista CD.
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Josiah Jenkins
wrote:
Long story . . .
I can't get SP1 (and therefore SP2) to install.
The MS tech says the issue is most likely caused by corrupted system
files and suggests that we (?) perform an In-place Upgrade to repair
the corrupted system files.
I'm just trying to get a Plan B in place in case it goes pear-shaped !
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Fred
From: "Josiah Jenkins" <josiah-jenkins@somewhere_else.invalid>
> Briefly, it looks as though I may have to re-install Vista
> (Home Premium) on my C: drive. I don't have a Windows
> CD, I have a 'Recovery Disk' supplied by the manufacturer,
> Fujitsu-Siemens, which clearly states :
> 'All data, applications and settings will be deleted'
>
> Any help appreciated.
> --
>
> http://www.ian-stewart.eu
I don't know if this applies to recent Fujitsu-Siemens systems, but my
oldish Amilo M3438 requires the associated Fujitsu-Siemens driver cd as well
as the recovery one when a complete reinstall is undertaken otherwise it is
a major operation trying to find the necessary drivers.
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Fred
Maurice Helwig
I have used DriveImageXML to do my "C" Drive backup image every 6 weeks
or so. I have WinXP OS and have no experience with Vista at all.
I have had occasion to restore my computer to a previous image on 2
occasions without any problems at all.
You need to have a boot CD called Bart PE Rescue Disk to access the
image and restore it to the "C" Drive.
Now I do not know if you can access an external drive from the Rescue
Disk as I have not tried to do this.
You can include extra Drivers on the Rescue disk as you are making it. I
included ACHI drivers on mine and it works well.
This site will help you with details re making the Boot CD
and
has some videos on how to do it also.
I hope this helps
Maurice Helwig
Josiah Jenkins
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Josiah Jenkins" <josiah-jenkins@somewhere_else.invalid>
>
>> Briefly, it looks as though I may have to re-install Vista
>> (Home Premium) on my C: drive. I don't have a Windows
>> CD, I have a 'Recovery Disk' supplied by the manufacturer,
>> Fujitsu-Siemens, which clearly states :
>> 'All data, applications and settings will be deleted'
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>
>I don't know if this applies to recent Fujitsu-Siemens systems, but my
>oldish Amilo M3438 requires the associated Fujitsu-Siemens driver cd as well
>as the recovery one when a complete reinstall is undertaken otherwise it is
>a major operation trying to find the necessary drivers.
Yeah, there are two CDs.
The second one has the drivers
(which will all need to be updated again)
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Josiah Jenkins
<maurice...@internode.on.net> wrote:
>Josiah Jenkins wrote:
>> Hoping someone who has used this program can advise.
>>
>> Briefly, it looks as though I may have to re-install Vista
>> (Home Premium) on my C: drive. I don't have a Windows
>> CD, I have a 'Recovery Disk' supplied by the manufacturer,
>> Fujitsu-Siemens, which clearly states :
>> 'All data, applications and settings will be deleted'
>>
>> I have made a backup of C: to an external drive using
>> DriveImage.
>>
>> Q1
>> If I end up with a clean Windows install . . .
>> Can I restore *PART* of the backup ?
>> For example, the 'Program Files' folder ?
>>
>> Q2
>> What happens with registry entries relating to these ?
>>
>> As a fallback, I'm currently building a folder with the
>> installation files for the programs I have loaded.
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>
>I have used DriveImageXML to do my "C" Drive backup image every 6 weeks
>or so. I have WinXP OS and have no experience with Vista at all.
Lucky you !
I tried to put XP Pro (instead of Vista) on this machine when I got it
but, being a laptop, it has no floppy drive. Which meant I couldn't
load the required drivers for the 250Gb SATA disk.
(Yeah, I tried nLite which I'd previously used with XP)
>
>I have had occasion to restore my computer to a previous image on 2
>occasions without any problems at all.
>You need to have a boot CD called Bart PE Rescue Disk to access the
>image and restore it to the "C" Drive.
If I reinstall from the OED CDs, I won't need that but I've got a
couple of boot disk CDs here in any case.
>
>Now I do not know if you can access an external drive from the Rescue
>Disk as I have not tried to do this.
Doesn't really matter, it's USB. And as I won't be re-installing
anything until Vista is updated . . .
Thanks for the input.
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Maurice Helwig
I have a USB Floppy Drive for the odd occasion thay I need to use a
floppy. The BIOS needs to be set to boot from a USB floppy though. All
the Best with your problems
Maurice Helwig
Harrys World
Correct me if I am wrong. Why not use the simple Acronis BU that is
with the Seagate Tools? It is FREE and you can generate a boot disk
(from the program) and reinstall your whole system with no worry about
drivers etc.
Josiah Jenkins
<maurice...@internode.on.net> wrote:
<snip>
>
>All the Best with your problems
Thank you.
It took just over 7 hours to re-install Vista and install
both SP1 and SP2. All now appears to be OK.
Thanks to all for their input.
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GlowingBlueMist
> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:54:18 +1000, Maurice Helwig
> <maurice...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> All the Best with your problems
>
> Thank you.
>
> It took just over 7 hours to re-install Vista and install
> both SP1 and SP2. All now appears to be OK.
>
> Thanks to all for their input.
Now that you have a working system you might want to look at the program
XXCLONE found at
http://www.xxclone.com/ before something gets corrupted again.
While similar to DriveImage XML it has many nice features and has a freeware
version available.
I use it to make a complete backup of my boot drive to an external USB hard
drive. If your BIOS can be set to boot from USB you can make the backup,
use the program to set it as bootable, and verify that the backup will work
by booting directly to it while leaving your original hard drive as it is.
Nice to be 100% sure a backup will work when needed. Later you can then use
it to restore the original drive should it become necessary and in a much
faster time than re-installing everything from scratch.
Josiah Jenkins
<Glowing...@truely.invalid> wrote:
>Josiah Jenkins wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:54:18 +1000, Maurice Helwig
>> <maurice...@internode.on.net> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> All the Best with your problems
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> It took just over 7 hours to re-install Vista and install
>> both SP1 and SP2. All now appears to be OK.
>>
>> Thanks to all for their input.
>
>
>
>Now that you have a working system you might want to look at the program
>XXCLONE found at
>http://www.xxclone.com/ before something gets corrupted again.
>
>While similar to DriveImage XML it has many nice features and has a freeware
>version available.
I've now got a copy of Acronis installed which will clone the drive.
As the laptop has a Western Digital SATA drive, I downloaded their
free version. I assume it'll do a similar job.
>
>I use it to make a complete backup of my boot drive to an external USB hard
>drive. If your BIOS can be set to boot from USB you can make the backup,
>use the program to set it as bootable, and verify that the backup will work
>by booting directly to it while leaving your original hard drive as it is.
>Nice to be 100% sure a backup will work when needed. Later you can then use
>it to restore the original drive should it become necessary and in a much
>faster time than re-installing everything from scratch.
Thanks for that.
>
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Martin Jay
<josiah-jenkins@somewhere_else.invalid> wrote:
>I've now got a copy of Acronis installed which will clone the drive.
>As the laptop has a Western Digital SATA drive, I downloaded their
>free version. I assume it'll do a similar job.
IMO True Image is an excellent product and has got me out of many
difficult situations. I liked it so much I even paid for it. :)
Unfortunately later versions have become bloated so I've switched to
Macrium Reflect, see <http://www.macrium.com/>, which seems to backup
faster.
As well as doing a full drive backup from time to time I also back up
specific files, such as documents and program settings, daily using
Cobian Backup <http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm>.
You can never have too many backups. :)
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Martin Jay