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restore OS from an image to the same drive (Read 52210 times)
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Re: restore OS from an image to the same drive
Reply #15 -
Jul 25
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, 2006 at 5:24am
Thank you for all posts. I need some time to read & try.
For now, I tried to find out information about partitions. MBRWizard said so:
Disk: 3 Size=117G
Pos MBRndx Type/Name Size Active Hide Start Sector Sectors
--- ------ ---------- ---- ------ ---- ------------ ------------
0 0 07-NTFS 6.0G Yes No 63 12,289,662
1 1 0F-EXTEND 111G No No 12,289,725 227,817,765
(Well, at this moment I have another 3 disks, one with OS2 and another 2 disks, without any OS on them. So, I wont list them here)
It seems to be no problem here.
Thank tou again. I shall post the results.
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Re: restore OS from an image to the same drive
Reply #16 -
Jul 25
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, 2006 at 6:46am
Partinfo - results for HDD1:
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I condider myself a power user, I know HTML, but I cant insert yet a simple image !!
this does not work:
Code:
[img]C:\partinfo.gif[/img]
[img]C://partinfo.gif[/img]
with or without quotas
can i attach files?
in the help i did not find anything. Amazing userfriendliness...
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Re: restore OS from an image to the same drive
Reply #17 -
Jul 25
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, 2006 at 7:32am
================================================================================
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Disk 0: 117240.0 Megabytes
============================= Partition Information ==============================
Volume Partition Partition Start Total
Letter:Label Type Status Size MB Sector # Sector Sectors
------------- --------------- -------- -------- ---------- - ---------- ----------
NTFS Pri,Boot 6000.8 0 0 63 12289662
ExtendedX Pri 111239.1 0 1 12289725 227817765
EPBR Log 89000.7 None - 12289725 182273490
NTFS Log 89000.7 12289725 0 12289788 182273427
EPBR Log 22238.4 12289725 1 194563215 45544275
NTFS Log 22238.4 194563215 0 194563278 45544212
It seems to be OK until now, isnt it?
Later edit:
I read some of the articles you posted, and I think that the problem is with MBR & offset (and the registry of WinXP). So, I am going to try to change tge registry of the restored image. I hope this work. Thank tou very much for the links.
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Re: restore OS from an image to the same drive
Reply #18 -
Jul 25
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, 2006 at 9:16am
manman
You have to have your images hosted online and use that online location to pull in the image with this forum's software.
Several folks have given *thumbs up* to the
Photobucket
that apparently will host your images for free.
Actually, from your postings above, it *does* appear that you have a partition problem--at least as posted--I'll explain more below.
Here's the *boot.ini* you claim is present on your HDD after restoring the image:
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multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
But both MBRWizard and PartInfo say your primary boot partition is #1, and not #3! The ARC path in *boot.ini* does not use the alphabetical order of drive letter assignments to determine the boot partition--it uses the order as specified in the MBR partition table.
You never mentioned in your reports of your system that the drive letters are not listed in the order of the physical layout of your HDD partitions.
But, I know for a fact, that Ghost 2003 may edit the *boot.ini* (in the background--and in my opinion *behind my back*!--I can find nowhere in the documentation that this happens--but I have documented it), and Ghost 2003 may adjust the *partition(x)* to be what it needs to be--and it works okay--unless your partition table (like mine) is not in sequential order--then Ghost 2003 can really mess things up!
You need to run this program,
TeraByte Unlimited Freeware--look for
EditBINI
, from DOS and confirm what the *boot.ini* file says.
Based on your posts, it should be *partition(1)*--so, if Ghost 2003 did not change it behind your back (or did not change it correctly), you will need to adjust that--the above program should allow you to edit the *boot.ini*.
But, as mentioned in my reply #12 above, I believe you will also have to deal with drive letters that have been re-assigned.
Report back with the results.
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Re: restore OS from an image to the same drive
Reply #19 -
Jul 25
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, 2006 at 9:55am
manman
Do you have any idea what the physical layout of partitions C, E, F, and G were in this *State 1*--and were the partitions *primary* or *logical* in an extended partition?
Quote:
State 1:
Harddisk Partitions
-----------------------------------------
HDD1: C E F G OS 1 (functional in this state)
HDD2: D H I OS 2 (functional)
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Re: restore OS from an image to the same drive
Reply #20 -
Jul 25
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, 2006 at 10:00am
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Based on your posts, it should be *partition(1)*--
NightOwl, I hope I am not adding more confusion here, but I think we're still not in possession of all the pertinent facts.
I think you are not making the correct distinction between the BOOT partition and the OPERATING SYSTEM partition. My understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) is that the active boot partition is the one that contains:
ntldr
ntdetec.com
boot.ini
This is the one that the hardware starts the boot process from.
Normally the Operating System (XP) is also on that same partition, but (as long as those 3 files are on the active one)
XP can just as easily be on one of the other partitions
! So, you can have the primary boot partition as the first one (C in most cases) and XP on E or F or G (on the same drive).
boot.ini (regardless of which partition it is read from initially) tells the operating system where to CONTINUE from that point forward.
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Re: restore OS from an image to the same drive
Reply #21 -
Jul 25
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, 2006 at 10:08am
Brian wrote
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, 2006 at 2:00am:
Ghost4me introduced me to RegistryEditiorPE. John, do you think this
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/
could be done with BartPE and the plugin? It can't be done from Windows here as Windows won't boot. Now that would be an interesting alternative to SavePart. The "G: drive" OS would need to be set active to be accessed by BartPE.
As I mentioned, the registry edit has to be done "offline". Manman has never successfully booted from his current configuration so no one knows what the registry shows. BartPE, ubcd4win, or others that have the offline Registry EditorPE can fix the problem (assuming I am correct that XP thinks the systembootdrive is F.)
(P.S. I hope Windows Vista isn't going to create a whole new round of dual boot (XP/Vista) "unstandard" configurations that create havoc for years afterwards!)
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Re: restore OS from an image to the same drive
Reply #22 -
Jul 25
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, 2006 at 10:38am
NightOwl wrote
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, 2006 at 9:55am:
manman
Do you have any idea what the physical layout of partitions C, E, F, and G were in this *State 1*--and were the partitions *primary* or *logical* in an extended partition?
C was primary, and the other were extended (logical) partitions.
OK, I have tried with savepart. I have modified the offset written in the Windows registry, for the restored partition. I have 2 images of the same G:, so I have tried with each:
1. with an older partition (slightly different hardware configuration) - I did not work
2. With a newer partition (19 iul 2006) (practically the same hardware config.) - and.... IT WORKED.
So, this was the problem. The Windows'registry memorizes the HDDidentifier and the offset of each partition.
I made an image of the G, then I deleted G: (and some other partitions), and then recreted G. So, now, I have another offset, that is different from one marked in the Windows'registry.
Using savepart, I change the key in the registry (on the restored part.) and system works. It seems to be completelly functional.
I think this was the cause. But I could be wrong. If you think so, please tell me.
Thank you very much for all your posts. All your opinions were great for me.
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Re: restore OS from an image to the same drive
Reply #23 -
Jul 25
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, 2006 at 10:52am
John. wrote
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, 2006 at 10:00am:
NightOwl, I hope I am not adding more confusion here, but I think we're still not in possession of all the pertinent facts.
I think you are not making the correct distinction between the BOOT partition and the OPERATING SYSTEM partition. My understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) is that the active boot partition is the one that contains:
ntldr
ntdetec.com
boot.ini
This is the one that the hardware starts the boot process from.
Normally the Operating System (XP) is also on that same partition, but (as long as those 3 files are on the active one)
XP can just as easily be on one of the other partitions
! So, you can have the primary boot partition as the first one (C in most cases) and XP on E or F or G (on the same drive).
boot.ini (regardless of which partition it is read from initially) tells the operating system where to CONTINUE from that point forward.
This is right I understand the things work, too. So I thnik the primary partition wont be necesarilly the same as the OS partition.
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Re: restore OS from an image to the same drive
Reply #24 -
Jul 25
th
, 2006 at 10:57am
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Hmmmm....I stand corrected--you are right--the *boot.ini* may need to point to *partition(3)*--which is the second logical partition in the extended partition based on the *partinfo* information and using the information on how to *count* and enumerate the partition number for the *partition(x)* in *boot.ini* explained here (
Editing the Boot.ini file using BTini
), that would make it *partition(3)*.
I was focused on *primary* partitions--my bad!
So, probably only needs to address the drive letter assignments using
SavePart--aka Partition Saving
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Re: restore OS from an image to the same drive
Reply #25 -
Jul 25
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, 2006 at 11:09am
manman
Good to hear you have figured things out!
I've not personally used *SavePart*--when you bring up your drive letter assignment using that program--does it show drive letter "G" and the old partition id based on the old partition offset--and you have to *calculate* the new offset and input it?
Or, does it show the new offset partition id and you just have to tell it to make that drive letter "G"?
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Reply #26 -
Jul 25
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, 2006 at 11:51am
yes, it show the new offset partition id and you just have to tell it to make that drive letter "G" - you also point to the windows partition, so the program could ghange Windows registry. It works simple. You have nothing to manually calculate. Details:
http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_11
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Reply #27 -
Jul 25
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manman wrote
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, 2006 at 10:38am:
I have 2 images of the same G:, so I have tried with each:
1. with an older partition (slightly different hardware configuration) - I did not work
2. With a newer partition (19 iul 2006) (practically the same hardware config.) - and.... IT WORKED.
Glad to hear it is working again!
Ghost is not meant to restore images onto dissimilar hardware configuration, so #1 above doesn't surprise me.
Regarding #2 above ("practically the same...") I would surmise at this point that you had invalid or corrupted boot partition information. You could probably have corrected it with the XP Recovery Console FIXBOOT command, but your use of the Save-Part probably did a similar fix.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058/
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Re: restore OS from an image to the same drive
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Jul 25
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, 2006 at 1:37pm
Looking more closely at the SavePart information, it appears it does more than just fix the partition boot record (fixboot command). It looks like it also does an offline registry edit of XP, similar to what I mentioned in reply #9 previously.
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Re: restore OS from an image to the same drive
Reply #29 -
Jul 25
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, 2006 at 3:08pm
Brian
In your reply #14, you speculated that Dan Goodell's *Method #2* might solve manman's problem:
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I think this technique is likely to resolve manman's problem as well.
But, *Method #2* only forces WinXP to *forget* it's current drive letter assignments--and therefore upon re-boot, WinXP goes through the process of re-assigning drive letters. This method really only works if the OS is on the default location C:\.
But that would not help manman because his OS drive letter needs to be *G:\*, and that would not have occurred during WinXP's re-assignment process unless by pure luck if he happened to have another HDD hooked up that caused WinXP to give that 3rd partition on that first HDD the drive letter G:\ !
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