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STRONGBADF1 should be listened to
New laptop HDD
My wife's Toshiba laptop locked up and gave her a message stating that the hard drive is bad. (leave it alone Alex) So she decided to restore it to it's original state just to see what would happen before we go buy a new HDD. We have made a system repair disk and a system image on 5 discs. The Toshiba tech said we would only need the restore disk. Well the hard drive error happened again so we bought a new one and for the life of us we can't get it to load the either disk(s)
I need help...Is their a online tutorial that any of you computer savvy AHer's now about that I can read. My searches haven't been successful and Toshiba wants you buy system disks that they made for $40. If I have to buy the disks I will but I'd hate to if I'm just being stupid.
Thanks in advance,
Doug
Once you’ve ruined your reputation, you can live quite freely.
Alex2507 (04-04-2012)
Audioholic Spartan
BoredSysAdmin should be listened to
This should work (Sneha's and Vikas (both Microsoft employees) answers)
Restoring system image to a different harddrive?
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STRONGBADF1 (04-04-2012)
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majorloser should be listened to
First you need one of these:
Then one of these:
Apply liberally
Problem solved
I'm the child of the household, so why shouldn't I get all the T O Y S
(my wife just won't let me buy them)
GO-NAD! (04-05-2012),STRONGBADF1 (04-04-2012)
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Alex2507 should be listened to
Way back when I bought my eMachines they supplied me with bad blank discs to make reformatting discs with. I got eMachines on the horn and said that since they were responsible for me wasting my time with their bad discs they ought to just send me their pre-made reformatting discs that they had for sale. They did and I've had to use them twice so far to bring my desk top back from the brink.
My hard drive takes a licking but it keeps on ticking ...
The second time I needed to reformat my computer wouldn't do anything with disc 1 until I restarted the computer with the disc already in it. I guess you could try that with the ones you burned yourself. Good luck.
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STRONGBADF1 (04-04-2012)
Audioholic Spartan
BoredSysAdmin should be listened to
just in case link above don't work:
Solution a)
You can use the system image created using Windows 7 backup to restore to a different hard drive. These are the steps:
1. Boot into the repair disc / Windows installation disc
2. Select "Reimage your computer"
3. Connect the disk which contains the backups.
4. Choose the recommended system image or choose a different one if you wish.
5. On the next page select the time period of the image you want to restore to. Click Next.
6. Now choose "Format and repartition disks".
Go ahead and complete the wizard.
If this fails solution b)
Hi,
It seems that when you attached/removed the disks then the disk ordering got changed.
There are two basic requirements for Windows Recovery to work:
1) Boot hard disk: This is where System (Active) partition sits. It should be the first disk.
Please verify that the correct hard disk is identified as Boot Disk:
Open Cmd prompt: Diskpart.exe, Select Disk = System.
This will show the Disk where OS will be restored.
2) Hard disk size:
Make sure that the boot disk size is equal or greater than the backup time disk size.
3) If you find that a different hard disk is selected as Boot disk then check the hardware IDE/SATA port connector. Make sure that the correct disk is attached to the first IDE/SATA port. Check the BIOS menu also.
4)If you are shifting your OS to a different disk, then remove the old hard disk before recovery. If both the new and old hard disks are attached, then restore will not proceed. You may attach the old disk back after recovery is done.
5) The reason: If two disks have same Disk Ids then it create issues during recovery. The new target boot disk is assigned the same Disk ID as it was during backup of the old boot disk. During recovery, if you keep the Old disk attached then there will be a conflict of same IDs given to two different disks that would result into failure.
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When you're arguing with an idiot, make sure the person you are speaking to isn't doing the same thing.
STRONGBADF1 (04-04-2012)
Seriously, I have no life.
j_garcia should be listened to
I bought one of those USB adapter things. You plug the HDD into it (has power and a communication plug to fit any type of drive) and if it fires up, you can retrieve data off it since it does not need to boot, so doesn't matter if the OS is no good. If not, then it is truly dead and may or may not reformat. You can also format it this way. I have recovered data from two HDDs this way and was able to pull an Acronis image off my dad's laptop and restore it to a new drive when his had an issue also. It more than paid for itself with the first data recovery.
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System Two: Marantz SR-8300, GR Research A/V-2s, Sony SCD-222ES SACD, Panasonic BD-65, PS3 60G (250G), My HT
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STRONGBADF1 (04-04-2012)
Audioholic Spartan
STRONGBADF1 should be listened to
freaking thing!
"The system image restore failed.
No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found."
and also...
System restore wizard asks for a recovery disk and I put it in and it tells me to "Please set 1st recovery media, and press [Next>] to continue." so I put the disk in and it reads the disk and then ejects it and then repeats the same message.
My guess is that the disks me made are junk. (damn Toshiba software)
Once you’ve ruined your reputation, you can live quite freely.
Audioholic Spartan
BoredSysAdmin should be listened to
Toshiba software?? I tought you were using Windows Backup to make image....Originally Posted by STRONGBADF1
If it was a Toshiba image backup, Windows Repair disk would not support it
I don't really know how to help with Toshiba restore
TV: TC-P55ST30 , AVR: TX-SR805. The Speaker Company 2x TST2, TC2, 2x TSB , Premier Acoustic PA-120 Sub, Netgear NeoTV 550, Harmony 880 URC RFS200, PC->Toslink-> Audioengine D1->JBL LSR2325P
When you're arguing with an idiot, make sure the person you are speaking to isn't doing the same thing.
STRONGBADF1 (04-04-2012)
Moderator
majorloser should be listened to
Please refer to post #3
It may take a couple tries with this method to be effective.
I'm the child of the household, so why shouldn't I get all the T O Y S
(my wife just won't let me buy them)
STRONGBADF1 (04-04-2012)
Audioholic Jedi
Adam should be listened to
Yeah, and make a video acting like your son posted s**t about you on FB before you trash it.
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