maxinegerb
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fyi, I have given up! I'm going to reinstall my software to a clean windows installation, and restore my data from the backup. Thanks to all who contributed!
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Try starting from windows install? Or?
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Prior restore attempts took 4+ hours
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Yes, that's what I'm pretty sure I did. I walked away for about 20 minutes, and when I came back it said it was complete, so that was too fast, and I don't know what was really done.
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btw, if I start AOMEI as if I was going to do another restore, When I get to the target disk, it shows a whole bunch of additional partitions, such as DELLSUPPORT, which look like they WERE restored earlier.
Anyway, I really don't know what's … -
The restore ran way too fast. When I look at disk management, I don't see any additional drive letters. When I start Easybcd, I get the message below, and I have no idea what that means. I'm not sure what to do at that point.
You said "I… -
Oh, maybe it's system protection. I think it reserves some of the drive (like half) go recovery data.
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I figured it out. I needed to disable storage protection.
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I'm trying to follow your script above. When I go to disk management, it says that I can only shrink my disk by half, ie. "size of available shrink space in MB" is 499910 (out of 1000946).
I don't want to lose half of my 1tb drive. Is there ano… -
Thanks! That's an amazing and creative solution.
I understand it all except "Metro boot menu style".
After doing all of the above, can I wipe the little windows partition and merge it with the big one? Or will that 10gb partition always b… -
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I have documented the partitions as they are now. See screen shot below. The upper part shows the results from AOMEI partition assistant and the lower part… -
One more thing. I notice in Partition Assistant that the C drive does NOT have status = Boot. Is it supposed to?
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I cleaned the laptop drive with diskpart, and then I did am AOMEI full DISK restore from my backup. When I restarted, I saw the message "scanning and repairing drive". Restarting after the repair completed continuously gave me the message "your PC r…
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The "target drive" is internal to my laptop, so I can't connect it to a functional computer. I don't know what you mean by "source drive".
Can I copy the .exe & .dlls to a bootable thumb drive, start the laptop from the thumb drive and run … -
Let's delay our phone call
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@admin - please help!
In my most recent restore attempt, I had done a clean install of windows, and then tried restoring only the "C" partition from my DISK backup… -
I was having windows problems which the recovery processes could not resolve.
I tried the restore twice, both of which appeared to be successful. The first time, when I restarted, I ended up in an endless loop of windows recovery.
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Sorry, I can't remember exactly what happened before I did the fresh windows install. Do you think it's a good idea to restore only the c-drive partition?
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Interesting comment from https://www.backup-utility.com/features/disk-restore.html. This makes me think I should choose a dif…
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I have installed AOMEI partition assistant and have created a bootable drive with it. Perhaps this will help with resolving any partition issues after the restore?
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ps. admin - if I buy the pro version, can I get phone support for this?
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Admin or Flyer, please help!
When I explore the AOMEI disk image, I see the following 5 partitions
ESP (*:) Fat32 500.00mb
OS (C:) Ntfs 965.48gb
(*:) NTFS 881.57MB
iMAGE(*:) NTFS 10.04GB
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Thanks. I see your point, but anyway I don't have another 1tb drive I can use, unfortunately.
Is there a good disk management utility that can be included in a bootable thumb drive which I could run after I do the restore, but before attempting… -
Oh hey, thanks, Flyer! I'm not sure I have another drive with enough capacity. My original drive is an ssd. Can I restore to a regular hard drive?
I'm willing to try restoring to the original drive again. I haven't put much energy into cu… -
I also successfully restored a data file (by exploring the backup). What I want to do is restore my entire system, if possible.
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I ran the verification today, and there were no errors.
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I just thought of something- I created the disk backup rubbing aomei under windows. Does that mean that i don't have a true full disk backup? Ugh.
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Oh! In that case, I'll stick with disk backup from now on. Thanks again.
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Thanks, Johnnyboy! Great, clear explanation. Is there any down side to using only a disk backup?
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Thanks, but I'm still confused. You said if I want data, then I need a disk backup. A system backup doesn't include data?
I don't know what you mean when you say "If you only have a C: drive on your disk". Are you talking about only having …