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CbyerMedic
Joined: 19 May 2008
Owosso MI | | | Hi, I created 2 images of Windows server 2003 machines both images wrote correctly however when I try a restore it looses all partition info. I.E. when do go to disk properities the partition size and all info is gone and the disk is not bootable or viewable....any idea on getting disk back to a readable state? |
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Roadkil
Joined: 28 Mar 2008
South Australia | | Hi there... did you image just the individual drive letters or the entire physical disk? If you only imaged the drive letters you will need to create an exactly matching partition to recover them into. For example if itsa 200 MB NTFS file system partition, you will have to create another one of these the same to recover your data into.
If you imaged a physical disk, if you recover this physical disk image to the computer do it to the physical disk again and it will recreate any parittions that were present for you as they are stored in the image.
hope this helps!
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CbyerMedic
Joined: 19 May 2008
Owosso MI | | Thanks for the info. I Imaged the the Drive letters and well the hard drive is no longer here so my next question is how exact does the partition have to be I know it was an 80 GB hard drive but am not sure as to the manufacturer so I dont know if it was a 74 GB drive or a 76 GB drive.
Thanks for you advise |
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CbyerMedic
Joined: 19 May 2008
Owosso MI | | | Is there any way from the image to tell any of this info? |
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Roadkil
Joined: 28 Mar 2008
South Australia | | Its very hard to tell just from the image what the disk parameters were... it IS possible if you open the disk image with a hex editor like XVI32 and then read the parameters in the boot sector (can be found here http://www.ntfs.com/boot-sector-damaged.htm)... But its a very tricky process... The best way is to really image the entire physical disk and then when you image it back all the partitioning is done for you.
For this image however, just createa 76GB partition and copy the image file back over the top.. if the image is smaller than the disk space available it will still work correctly.. if its bigger you might loose some data at the end.. so take a guess and just go that little bit bigger!
hope that helps! |
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