win 7 backup and restore
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space and it is old. I also have a 1.5 tb drive which I have used for
backups. Before replacing my C drive I made sure to use windows to save an
up to date backup of my old drive and a system image. I then formatted my
new 1tb drive, disconnected both the old 320 gb drive and the 1.5tb drive
and did a clean install of windows 7 on the new 1tb drive which is now C.
I subsequently reconnected the 1.5 tb drive which is F (I have 2 dvd/cd
drives D and E). Although the 1.5tb F drive clearly shows in windows
explorer and I can drill down to individual backup files, windows backup and
restore refuses to recognise the F drive and says there are no backups on
the system. If using windows explorer I attempt to initiate a restore the
backup and restore pop up appears but fails to show drive F.
I have now reinstalled my programs from cd/dvd and have retrieved data by
reconnecting my old c 320 gb drive which now shows in windows explorer and
windows back up / restore as G. I am frustrated that I continue to be
unable to access the F drive in windows back up and restore, either to
retrieve previously backed up data or to initiate a new back up of my
current c drive. Backup and restore shows G as available for backup but it
lacks sufficient spare space and being unable to access F I am reluctant to
delete items from G until I am certain I have transferred everything I need.
I am not getting any error messages. F is an external drive in a caddy
linked by a sata connection although I could link it by (slower) usb. When I
try setting up backup and restore I can see the disk operating light
flashing on. I have installed all the Microsoft updates available. There are
other (non backup) files on F and have had no difficulty in accessing and
transferring them to C.
What am I doing wrong please?
Peter
Michael Swift
writes
>What am I doing wrong please?
Can you access your 1.5 tb drive normally?
I ask because I got a new system earlier this year with two 1 tb sata
drives, Windows 7 64 bit was set up on drive C and worked yet I couldn't
see drive D, the other 1 tb drive.
I rang the supplier, luckily in my village, and let them have control of
my computer, I knew the owner from years back.
She did something in Admin Tools which 'switched on' the extra drive,
sorry I can't be more specific but 7 is new to me after XP and I'm still
finding my way round.
Mike
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"John Ewing" wrote in message
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What version of Windows was used to make the backup?
John
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Thanks for responding. The backup was in windows 7 (64 bit) and I am
continuing to run windows 7 (64 bit). I installed on the new C drive using
the same installation dvd as its' predecessor. Apart from the drive changes
described there have been no hardware changes.
Peter
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"Michael Swift" wrote in message news:9IJg7JA$QNkO...@ntlworld.com...
In article <Z2%jq.1909$651...@newsfe04.ams2>, peter.b...@live.co.uk
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>What am I doing wrong please?
Can you access your 1.5 tb drive normally?
Thanks for responding. Yes I can see the 1.5 tb drive normally and can
access the files in windows explorer. The problem is backup and restore
specific. If I try to to set up back up in windows back up the F the drive
activity light operates (it is in a caddy) and I can hear the drive
running. However backup and restore fails to register the drive as a back up
location . My old C drive now featuring as G does come up as a potential
backup location but as described is too full to be useful. For some reason
windows appears to be excluding the F drive from being used for backup /
restore activity but it is fully accessible for other purposes. As an
experiment for example I created a new folder called "test" in C and copied
it without problem into F.
Peter
J. P. Gilliver (John)
I don't know enough about 7 or the backup/restore utility you're using
to be sure, but I _suspect_ the problem is that you've created a new
installation of 7 (albeit with the same DVD), and then tried to restore
a backup. I think the restore should be done without the benefit of a
new 7 installation (possibly using the recovery console, or whatever it
is called under 7, from the DVD, if the backup was created from within 7
and if 7's DVD has some sort of restoration ability from such a backup.
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>"Michael Swift" wrote in message news:9IJg7JA$QNkO...@ntlworld.com...
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>In article <Z2%jq.1909$651...@newsfe04.ams2>, peter.b...@live.co.uk
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>>What am I doing wrong please?
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>Can you access your 1.5 tb drive normally?
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>Thanks for responding. Yes I can see the 1.5 tb drive normally and can
>access the files in windows explorer. The problem is backup and restore
>specific. If I try to to set up back up in windows back up the F the
>drive activity light operates (it is in a caddy) and I can hear the
>drive running. However backup and restore fails to register the drive
Just guessing, it's looking for a different type of file - or something
- from the one you created. Since you've mentioned the ability to get
individual files back, then presumably what you did was just a copy; I'm
wondering if you should have done something else, which makes a sort of
single giant file (or series of such). But I could well be wrong here.
>as a back up location . My old C drive now featuring as G does come up
>as a potential backup location but as described is too full to be
>useful. For some reason windows appears to be excluding the F drive
I'm puzzled: when you say "potential backup location", do you mean
"potential place to restore backups from" (in which case I can't see
that it matters how full it is), or "potential place to make _more_
backups" (in which case I'm wondering why you're even considering that
before you've restored your old system).
>from being used for backup / restore activity but it is fully
Again, I'm just guessing that it doesn't contain the special filetype
the restore routine is looking for.
>accessible for other purposes. As an experiment for example I created
>a new folder called "test" in C and copied it without problem into F.
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>Peter
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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(Crossposted to a 'group I think you'll get more help in.)
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>"Michael Swift" wrote in message news:9IJg7JA$QNkO...@ntlworld.com...
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>In article <Z2%jq.1909$651...@newsfe04.ams2>, peter.b...@live.co.uk
>writes
>>What am I doing wrong please?
>
>Can you access your 1.5 tb drive normally?
>
>Thanks for responding. Yes I can see the 1.5 tb drive normally and can
>access the files in windows explorer. The problem is backup and restore
>specific. If I try to to set up back up in windows back up the F the drive
>activity light operates (it is in a caddy) and I can hear the drive
>running. However backup and restore fails to register the drive
Just guessing, it's looking for a different type of file - or something
- from the one you created. Since you've mentioned the ability to get
individual files back, then presumably what you did was just a copy; I'm
wondering if you should have done something else, which makes a sort of
single giant file (or series of such). But I could well be wrong here.
I can't get individual files back using restore, I can identify them in
windows explorer (they are zipped but can be unzipped). I didn't copy them I
used windows backup. Windows backup has assembled them in a small series of
(dated) folders.
>as a back up location . My old C drive now featuring as G does come up as a
>potential backup location but as described is too full to be useful. For
>some reason windows appears to be excluding the F drive
I'm puzzled: when you say "potential backup location", do you mean
"potential place to restore backups from" (in which case I can't see
that it matters how full it is), or "potential place to make _more_
backups" (in which case I'm wondering why you're even considering that
before you've restored your old system).
There are no backups in G (the old C drive) at present because I have not
created any. Windows backup shows the G drive as somewhere I could put
backups were I to delete files to make space. As explained I am reluctant to
do that in case I have missed anything I might subsequently need but have
not copied across to the new C drive.
Thanks
Student
Acronis True Image.
I have 2010 Home edition.
I tested a feature in which Windows 7 backup is converted to Acronis image file
I could then read and copy files individually from the Acronis backup
FD
Marcus Houlden
wrote the following to uk.comp.os.ms-windows:
When I replaced my old 120 GB PATA drive with a new 2 TB SATA one, I created
a system image (on a USB HD) and then did the following:
1. Physically connected the new drive
2. Disconnected the old one
3. Set the BIOS to recognise the new drive and made sure the old one was no
longer listed
4. Booted from the Win 7 CD
5. Chose language settings
6. Went to "repair my computer"
7. Went to "restore your computer using a system image" and picked the USB
drive as the source
I have a second HD in the machine so I told it not to restore anything to
there. Altogether it took a couple of hours to do the restore and then I had
to extend the partition to use all the space on the new disk as Windows
thinks it's been restored to the original disk and keeps it the same size.
There's a guide on how to do this with screenshots at
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/7702/restoring-windows-7-from-an-image-backup/.
Note that you *don't* install Win 7 from the CD and try to restore the image
from a backup.
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