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acronis backup and recovery 10 unversal restore issues
I have an image of a server that i am trying to load on another server (dissimilar hardware) and I keep getting a failure when performing the recovery. I am sure it is a drivers issue however it doesn't matter what drivers i try i still get a failure. Do any of you experts have any ideas how i could make sure that i am using correct drivers?
Also I have used a boot cd created with WinPE from the acronis management console. Maybe i am missing something creating the boot cd. I installed AIK 2.1 before creating the boot cd.
It seems as if i am doing what acronis help articles are telling me to do however i have no luck. I did try to boot once after a failure and was able to get to the OS. I try the same thing with another source image and get stop message 0x7b.
Any help is appreciated!
Also I have used a boot cd created with WinPE from the acronis management console. Maybe i am missing something creating the boot cd. I installed AIK 2.1 before creating the boot cd.
It seems as if i am doing what acronis help articles are telling me to do however i have no luck. I did try to boot once after a failure and was able to get to the OS. I try the same thing with another source image and get stop message 0x7b.
Any help is appreciated!
Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
You've not got the correct storage drivers, added when performing the restore.
did you buy the Universal Restore option with your Acronis License?
If you are able to restore fully then I would use the Windows repair from the Windows 2003 Server CD.
That's pretty slick dariusq.
I never thought of a repair install to overcome driver issues of an imaged machine.
Usually, I try to go into safemode and see if I can delete the wrong drivers, then let microsoft generic drivers come into play until I can get the right drivers or network and video. For storage drivers, imaged drivers never worked of course.
I never thought of a repair install to overcome driver issues of an imaged machine.
Usually, I try to go into safemode and see if I can delete the wrong drivers, then let microsoft generic drivers come into play until I can get the right drivers or network and video. For storage drivers, imaged drivers never worked of course.
You have to have the universal restore option installed on the PC that makes the boot cd. Thenyou have to choose to use it during restore.
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I'v got universal restore and i have even used drivermax to extract the drivers for this machine (i installed a fresh copy of windows 2003 32bit before the driver extract). I am looking for some advice on finding the correct drivers to use. Also I am not sure if I am using the WinPE CD correctly. I may try using the Linux based boot cd instead to see if i get a different outcome.
BTW, I did get the image to boot with a repair, however i would like to find the correct way to do this instead of relying on a repair.
BTW, I did get the image to boot with a repair, however i would like to find the correct way to do this instead of relying on a repair.
When imaging the machine it should ask you to supply the storage drivers for the machine, you are imaging to?
What are the driver ids?
What are the driver ids?
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I just reloaded a fresh install of windows 2003 32 bit and looked in device manager. The section i am looking at is called "IDE ata\atapi controllers". There are two listed here both with vendor ID 8086 and Dev ID 42d1 and 24d8. I just used driver magician to extract these two drivers i will try and dissimilar hardware restore with these two and see what happens. Thanks hanccocka.
Btw yes the bootable cd does ask what mass storage drivers to install. I have been using the section for "select folders to search" instead of selecting a specific driver. I am going to give that a shot.
Btw yes the bootable cd does ask what mass storage drivers to install. I have been using the section for "select folders to search" instead of selecting a specific driver. I am going to give that a shot.
we use a NAS, and we put all the drivers required on the NAS with the images, when prompted to search for driver we spcify the NAS location/share and it installs the drivers.
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hanccocka,
Do you use the boot CD? If so do you use Linux or WinPE?
Do you use the boot CD? If so do you use Linux or WinPE?
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I think it might be the HAL. My image is from a acpi multiprocessor, i am restoring to a acpi uniprocessor. Do any of you know an easy way to change the HAL while imaging with acronis backup and recovery 10
if this is the issue, easier to test
add /ONECPU
I've used this option many times when debugging some SMP systems. It actually tells Windows to load the uniprocessor kernel. All that is required is a reboot. Removing the /ONECPU option will make Windows boot with a multiprocessor kernel. It's just this easy.
add /ONECPU
I've used this option many times when debugging some SMP systems. It actually tells Windows to load the uniprocessor kernel. All that is required is a reboot. Removing the /ONECPU option will make Windows boot with a multiprocessor kernel. It's just this easy.
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i've done a little research to see how to add the /onecpu switch and i am not having much luck. Can it be done from a recovery console? How would you go about adding this switch?
boot using a BartPE/WinPE Disk, and modify the boot.ini on the C: drive.
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i tried restoring with the same drivers using the same image only using the linux boot disk instead. Successful with out errors.
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didn't need the winpe cd in this case