Storagecraft Windows 10 restored image will not boot
Working with a Windows 10 laptop and StorageCraft Shadow Protect Desktop.
I have restored an image for a Windows 10 laptop UEFI to a brand new drive in a laptop. The old drive was failing, and the replacement drive is the same Brand | Model | Capacity and RPM. I made the boot environment from a download of their Recovery Environment version 1.1.9 this week. When the restore shows completed.. I hit File | exit and then reboot the machine.
When the machine reboots... If the Recovery Environment USB is plugged in - the machine boots directly to the Recovery environment (no F12 needed to select boot option) i.e. it thinks the USB is C:|
If the RE USB is not plugged in, I get a "no boot media found" message.
Somehow the "C" is not being assigned properly.
The primry partition is a system drive: C:\... no other drive partitions except the small ones that MS creates. The Backup imge that we are restoring is for "C only"
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I have restored an image for a Windows 10 laptop UEFI to a brand new drive in a laptop. The old drive was failing, and the replacement drive is the same Brand | Model | Capacity and RPM. I made the boot environment from a download of their Recovery Environment version 1.1.9 this week. When the restore shows completed.. I hit File | exit and then reboot the machine.
When the machine reboots... If the Recovery Environment USB is plugged in - the machine boots directly to the Recovery environment (no F12 needed to select boot option) i.e. it thinks the USB is C:|
If the RE USB is not plugged in, I get a "no boot media found" message.
Somehow the "C" is not being assigned properly.
The primry partition is a system drive: C:\... no other drive partitions except the small ones that MS creates. The Backup imge that we are restoring is for "C only"
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Try to fix it with by following this article: https://neosmart.net/wiki/fix-uefi-boot/
/mbr (is optional)means master boot record - first sector on the hard drive has nothing to do with the drive type.
There is also the command
bootrec /fixmbr /fixboot /scanos /rebuildbcd
https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/927392
There is also the command
bootrec /fixmbr /fixboot /scanos /rebuildbcd
https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/927392
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I contacted support at StorageCraft and after several sessions and no success we are suspecting there is a problem with the new drive. Rare these days, but possible. The replacement is in transit and we will try it again. If no success with the new drive.. then we know we are looking at a software issue. Will keep you posted.
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It went full circle. Storagecraft never called as they promised... so while waiting I decided to try Dave Johnson's suggestions to repair the boot sector... but no success. I then resorted to his other suggestion of doing a windows install - then replacing the C partition from the image.
The windows install reported that it was successful... but when we rebooted it ALSO gave the no boot media found message. So something funky about that new drive.
We then replaced it with another new drive and the windows install completed and booted without issue. For the restore, rather than use the last incremental we had... I used the last full backup we had which was a few days older. That completed and booted.
My thought is drive was deteriorating... and maybe at the time of the last incremental, the boot sector was also damaged... but was now part of the image. Restoring the last incremental also gave us a bad boot sector... while the earlier full backup, was still OK.
Anyway, the PC is finally up and running.
Thanks to everyone for staying with me on the topic. You're the best. Splitting the points... but leaving it open for a couple of days if either of you have additional thoughts on what might have happened.
The windows install reported that it was successful... but when we rebooted it ALSO gave the no boot media found message. So something funky about that new drive.
We then replaced it with another new drive and the windows install completed and booted without issue. For the restore, rather than use the last incremental we had... I used the last full backup we had which was a few days older. That completed and booted.
My thought is drive was deteriorating... and maybe at the time of the last incremental, the boot sector was also damaged... but was now part of the image. Restoring the last incremental also gave us a bad boot sector... while the earlier full backup, was still OK.
Anyway, the PC is finally up and running.
Thanks to everyone for staying with me on the topic. You're the best. Splitting the points... but leaving it open for a couple of days if either of you have additional thoughts on what might have happened.
My backup tool detects the problems with file system or hard drive during backup creation. Strangely StorageCraft did not do the same in your case.
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This was an odd one. Did not expect a new out of the box hard drive to be bad... but that was the issue. Thanks to both of you for staying with me through the process.
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David - this is an EFI disk so I don't think we want to use the /mbr option. Should the command simply be edited to /GPT?