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CowboySlim wrote:I'm having somewhat similar problems. After burning out a hard drive backup, I'm having trouble simulating a restore/disaster recovery. I'm booting with the 1st CD of the backup set in a drive and the DOS screen asks me to select as source: C:\, D:\, E:\, or F:\. I have neither any idea to which physical device these refer to, nor which is the proper one to select. It seems as though every selection option ends in a freeze after telling me to insert the 1st CD of the set in the drive that I've selected and then it can't find it.
Slim
CCampbell wrote:The problem is with the process you used.
If you use the Back Up Files option, or Schedule Backups option, then and only then are NBI Files created and written to disc in ISO format.
When you use our Back Up Hard Drive option, then you are doing a sector by sector backup. Creating a bootable disc to do a system Disaster Recovery from. To recover, you need to boot to the first set of the recovery discs.
Regards,
Craig
Craig:
I tried to recovery a backup (that was created using the Back Up Hard Drive option) by booting to the first DVD (there are a total of 26 DVD's in this backup set) but whenver I try to select the DVD drive (that contains the DVD backup disc 1) the restore software says that the media is incompatiable. After trying to get this to work a few times, I took the DVD's to my system (the system in question is not mine, my budy has asked me for help in fixing his system) and looked at them with Windows Explorer they look like they contain data.
Could you perhaps throw me a bone here and give me a clue as to what I can do to get this system restored?
Thanks.
What size is the Hard Drive that you are trying to restore too?
What size is the data that you are about to restore?
The fact that you can boot to the disc, and you get the Restore window indicates the disc is readable. As long as the first DAT file is not corrupted in some way, it should work. But if the first DAT File is corrupted, or there is a scratch or dust at that location there could be problems.
With our older version of Nero BackItUp, we did have trouble with restoring to Hard Drives over 130Gig in size, but we appear to have resolved this issue with a new build. Do you have our latest Nero 6.3.1.10 installed? And was this the version used to create the backup, or was an earlier version used? If an earlier version, this could be the problem if you have a Hard Drive over 130gig in size.
Regards,
Craig
8_ace wrote:Hi. I recently bought a new hard drive and have had nothing but trouble with it. I've reinstalled Windows 3 times since. The last time I installed everything, I backed up my hard drive using NERO BackItUp. Now I can't seem to restore my files. It took 2 DVDs to write to, even though they are 4.7gb ones and I only had 3.9gb on my hard disk at the time.
The computer keeps freezing with this hard drive so I want to back up onto my old drive so I can take this one back to the shop.
The problem is that when I go to the Nero BackItUp Wizard, it can't find any *nbi files on either of my backup DVDs. I've read in this forum here, something about a backup boot disk but Nero didn't tell me I needed anything like that so I'm a bit lost there. I really don't think I could handle another week of restoring the system from scrach again so please can anyone help a man on the verge of suicide... AAARGH!!!! lol
CCampbell wrote:Hi Ken2, and Moosepn,
Have you checked the discs for any physical defects? I find many times this is the cause for a failed restore. Sometimes, just a little cleaning of the disc's will resolve the issue.
Regards,
Craig
KEN2 wrote:CCampbell wrote:Hi Ken2, and Moosepn,
Have you checked the discs for any physical defects? I find many times this is the cause for a failed restore. Sometimes, just a little cleaning of the disc's will resolve the issue.
Regards,
Craig
Craig:
Thank you for your prompt reply.
I would like to give you a little follow up on my post.
After the above "suspicious" copy was done, I rebooted the PC as instructed and then Windows XP started disk check under blue screen. During XP disk check, PC seemed to try to restore all the files from the last activity, which is Backitup operation. It took almost a day to finish the "restoration". After it was done, I checked the disk in question, and found out following:
1) Amazingly, file and folder structure seems to be restored exactly as they were before.
2) All folders can be opened and I see file-icons there, but no file can be opened with the message, "This is unknown file type"
Also, back to your question, I checked DVD discs, there were no physical damage or anything like that.
In my opinion, I did not see anybody having problems with Window-based Backitup problem using NBI file restoration, which I know can be used only for FILE back-up but not for HDD backup. So again, there might have been something with the DOS based restoration programm. What do you think?
Thanks,
Ken
CCampbell wrote:Hi Ken2,
I doubt DOS is the issue, but can easly boot to a DOS bootable floppy and then try install using Restore.exe, to see if this issue is related to the DOS boot.
I would lean more to the media needing cleaning or having damage on it as the cause.
The Green and then Yellow portion showing the restore complete, indicates that the restore is not in fact completeing.
Regards,
Craig
coaxili wrote:I have a same "Create New Structures: 50%" problem with restoring from DVD.
Problem is solved for me! Follow this instructions:
0. Copy NRESTORE.EXE (last version is 1.083) from newest NERO BURNING ROM update (download it from developer site or get prepared of necessary files from attachment) to floppy disc with configuration files.
1. Boot from first backup DVD
2. Then NRESTORE.EXE is started choose from menu Quit to get Caldera DOS system console.
3. Insert prepared floppy disc with newest NRESTORE.EXE
4. Start it from floppy by typing b:\NRESTORE or any way
5. If newest version NRESTORE.EXE is run then use it properly for restoring.
6. Voala!
Testing on Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6, file system is NTFS, DVD+R,RW TDK (backup contains two discs), restores full partition D:
IMHO BackItUp of early version have big problem with restoring from bootable DVD and NTFS. While making backup It haven’t a warning. Also Nero is not warning about it.
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