HDD cloning

Hi community,
I just bought a bigger HDD (WD 750GB) for my MB alu.
What's the best way to copy the present HDD into the bigger one and than swapping it inside?
Do I have to install OS first or the cloning installs everything.
Thanks

felipey wrote:
what kind of details?
Some need more detail with processes than others. Ex: Formatting for Mac.. They would need more detail like which buttons to push, how to locate a drive in Disk Utility, etc..
does migration assistant work in this case?
No need for Migration Assistant usage in my post. The clone has everything. It's an exact duplicate of the old drive. The OS, the apps, the settings, everything.

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HDD Cloning & Partitions

Hi,
I have just installed a 3rd HDD in my Mac Pro and am wondering the best way to change my current drive layout.
Current Setup
HDD ONE (160GB) - OS and applications with only 20GB empty.
HDD TWO (500GB) - mainly photos with 200GB+ empty.
HDD THREE (1TB) - empty.
I also have a 2TB Time Capsule that I'm going to use for backup once I re-organize the drives.
Future Setup
HDD ONE to be cloned onto HDD TWO and removed or used as a scratch disc.
HDD TWO to become restored boot drive with OS and applications.
HDD THREE to store files that were on HDD TWO and future audio projects.
Here's how I think this will work... although I've never used Carbon Copy or created HDD partitions before. So if you know an easier way, please let me know...
I somehow create two 500GB partitions on HDD THREE.
I then clone or create images of HDD ONE & TWO and store them on the two partitions on HDD THREE.
Format HDD TWO and then restore the clone or image of HDD ONE onto it so that HDD TWO is now the boot disc.
Format HDD ONE and remove or setup as scratch disc.
Remove partition on HDD THREE that held HDD ONE clone, leaving just the photo's etc that were originally on HDD TWO.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Invest in a new $69 WD Caviar 640GB for your system.
Keep it simple.
You can use Apple Disk Utility -> Restore as well.
Leave the small 160GB for emergency - but I'd clean it out and free up space. I'd leave your 500GB well enough alone as is, or clone that as well to a WD 640GB and keep what you have as backup as well (and put it in external case).

T410 HDD Cloning

I have a t410 that recently fell off of my coffee table. Now it takes forever for it to boot. Ran the thinkvantage diagnostics and apparently I am in imminent danger of HDD failure and should back up my data and change my hard drive. Normally, I would brazenly ignore this message, however, the system is really slow to boot and given the fall (while it was on), imminent failure seems like a real possibility.
I bought another HDD and expect it tomorrow. How do I clone my existing drive with all the partitions onto the new one? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thank you!

Welcome to the forum!
You'll need an external USB enclosure, and software like Acronis or Clonezilla that you'd boot from a "live" CD.
The new drive goes in the machine, the old one in the USB enclosure.
Cheers,
George
In daily use: R60F, R500F, T61, T410
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I want to clone my existing original equipment 500GB HDD to a new 1TB replacement HDD. How to?

G'Day,
I'm gettin too big for my old 500GB HDD, so I bought a new 1TB HDD.
Now, I have the set of rescue disks I made when I first fired up my Compaq Presario CQ57-105TU Laptop. I could use them & fresh install all the original computer software & OS, but then I would have to start from scratch & re-install all the software I have installed, besides redoing all the tweaks & modifications I 've made to the Windows 7 OS since day one---over a year ago.
Really not how I want to spend the next week or two +/-.
I'd like to clone the orig. 500GB HDD & all its contents to a new 1TB HDD.
Sounds like where I want to go, but for 1 small issue. I've been told that if I do just that I will have about 500gb of new available space, but I was also told I won't be able to create any new drive partitions on the new HDD because of some way the existing partitions on the original HDD are created.
1. Is that true?
2. If not, where can I find a failsafe procedure for accomplishing the clone, & then creating 2 new partitions to cover the free space on the new drive.
3. If so, is there a work around? If there is what is the procedure (plse don't give me brain cramps with techno lingo..tnx)
Some additional information that might be important.
At present my HDD has this configuration:
Now that   ( Q ) Local Disk     Is diferent. It shows 0 bytes available & 0 bytes Used, & I dont have access to it.
My wife's computer...a different Laptop model CQ62... also has the same drive,
but hers is labeled as Microsoft Office 2010 Starter...also 0 bytes available & used---also no access to it, & like below, not showing in Dmgt.
This drive does not show up in my DISK MANAGEMENT Configuration:    http://i.imgur.com/r4LPrDa.jpg
Thanks for your time & consideration.....Bobby
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
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Ok....it is done!!
I used my friends HDD CLONING DOCKING STATION exactly like this one, but he purchased it 2 years ago from a different seller.
All I did was take my Original 500GB Drive & placed it into slot A (the front slot - Master) & I placed the new Toshiba 1TB Drive into slot B (the second slot behind Slot A..the middle - Slave). I turned the power on the Box. I waited till the drives spun up & were ready, & then all I did was press the red button on the Box...
The 25% light started flashing & the cloning began....
About 40 minutes later the 50% light started flashing & the 25% light stayed steady.
This meant that 25% of the process was done, & it was proceeding to 50%. \
This sequence continued until eventually all the lights were on steady (25% thru 100%) which meant the clone was complete.
I estimate it took about 2 hours & 15 minutes to clone completely.
I shut down the Box by turning off the power. I then removed both drives.
I carefully installed the new drive into the notebook computer, & reinserted the battery, & I plugged in the notebook's power supply/charger/adapter.
I then crossed my fingers & hit the notebook's power button.
Within seconds my notebook was booting up as always. I just had to check to make sure I really did install the new drive...& yes the one on the desk was the original, which definitely meant that the drive booting my notebook was indeed the new drive I just cloned to.
My notebook booted flawlessly!! without a hitch. Exactly as it always had.
I used My Computer Management Administrative tool--Disk Management & made a simple volume for the 450+ GB of free space, assigning the next available drive letter -- in my case Drive (F) & I named it as well.
Everything worked perfectly, I can read & write to the new partition/volume. As I noted earlier, I probably wont be able to boot from anything but my (C) Drive, but that's fine for me.
So, what did I learn?
Well, firstly, my Compaq Presario CQ57-105TU can upgrade to 1TB of HDD without any modifications.
Using the Cloning method I did definitely saved me at least 1 full weeks of re-installation work if I chose the Fresh install method using the Backup/Rescue Disks I created when the computer first was started way back when.
Outside of the 2+ hours of time it took to clone the drive, the 15 +/- minutes to originally remove & reinstall the drive, & the time it took to assign the new free space a drive letter (all of 5-10 minutes) the procedure was a clear cut simple one, which I know could have been done otherwise, but not as simply as the method I chose.
Pepe, thank you very much for the time you spent researching my questions & responding to my post.
I'm so glad all your fears & roadblocks were not realized, & in the end it was possible to accomplish the task contrary to our initial concerns---matter in factly with the greatest of ease.
Here are some pics of the Clone Station (the Box) exactly like the one I used:
Cheers to all,
Bobby aka DreamRyderX
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

Installing W2K onto Portege 3480CT with MK4018gas HDD

Hallo,
my old HDD was broken running under W2K, got a new MK4018gas,
during install W2K always got info that W2K cannot find HDD.
Under DOS I can get on the HDD, cloned one partition which runs fine
but could not get it onto the Portege 3480CT, always a HDD problem
came up.
Who can help?

Hi,
It's a usual problem, look here ( and especially in the link in this thread ) :
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=129786
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G4 Xserve Cloning Mirrored RAID

I manage a Dual G4 Xserve running Server 10.4.9. The server has been running well for about 4 years now and the company is implementing a procedure to replace all HDDs in all servers on a three years cycle. Got them 2 250GB ATA HDDs, cloned the current 160 setup to a FW800 drive, which went flawlessly, was able to boot from the FW drive no problem. Replaced the old drives with the new, cloned from the FW to the new disks in the mirror.
All seems to go perfectly, except when rebooting I get to the gray screen with the spinning hash marks and no further. I have tried resetting the PRAM and resetting the NVRAM. Also booted from the FW drive and ran disk utils against the new setup, found no disk or permission errors.
Anyone have any thought on why this might not be working? Can the G4 take a 250 (not purchased from Apple) drives? Help!

Seen the circumstance that you may have used third party drives (are original Apple drive modules for the G4 still available overall ?), have you taken care that the drives meet the specifications ?
You may check documentation of the drives and the G4, e.g. http://support.apple.com/specs/xserve/Xserve.html
Are the new drives from the same manufacturer as the original ones ? Maybe these are more likely compatible ?

Can I run Tiger and Leopard on the same computer

Hi folks.
I've been meaning to install Leopard for ages but have never got round to it (I bought the retail box when it first came out). I have upgraded my RAM to 2GB and my hard drive to 320GB with no problems.
My upgraded hard drive has been partitioned into 2 equal parts of 160GB. These appear on desktop as Mackintosh HD1 and HD2. HD1 is the disk with all my files, music, OS etc and HD2 is empty
I have 2 bootable clones of my present system - one is on a 160GB external and the other is the original 80GB HD that I replaced.
My question is this - can I install Leopard on to my 160GB external HD, then clone it on to the empty HD2. If I do this would I be able to run both Tiger and Leopard on the same Macbook?
Is there any problems with this plan? Would I be able to transfer between the 2 OS and how do I install Leopard on the external drive. Is it just a case of inserting the Leopard DVD and choose the external drive as the target?
As usual thanks in advance
Del

# Original Tiger in the internal HD, New Leopard in the external HD.
# New Leopard in the internal, Legacy cloned Tiger in the external.
# Split internal, one partition with Tiger, another with Leopard.
Leopard is backwardly compatible with older Macs, just make sure yours fulfills the minimum system requirements, both use the same filesystem format, so each can see the other. You can't run both at the same time, unless you purchase the server version of Leopard and run it virtualized. 99.9% of Firewire external HD's are bootable, some USB's are bootable but have to test first. You can choose which system to boot from by pressing the Option key at boot time, before the chime. Just make sure the external HDD is plugged in and turned on if that's where you want to boot from.
When I migrated my PBG4 from Panther to Tiger, got an external FW HDD, cloned Panther onto it, upgraded using Archive and Install, cleaned up, customized and tested it. When I was satisfied all was ok, cloned the original Panther onto another partition of the external HDD, wiped and tested for failure the internal HDD, then cloned the known good and tested Tiger into it. Only thing that died along the way was my old and ancient Photoshop v2.x, that refused to run on Tiger.

Intermittently shuts down, then slowly gets worse - Satellite P30-133

Hi
Since I purchased this laptop in May 2005 it always had a sudden shut down problem and I am always on Mains!
I did set it as High Power and keep the CPU at 3/4 as well - this way the Fans are working better and the CPU does not overheat.
That was solved.
Then It started to do it again (very rarely) for no apparent reason.
I keep 'all' my computers well updated (drivers included) and lately when I started to do a HDD 'cloning' back up (using
Acronis) it starts the back-up and after a few minutes it shuts down. NOTE: I have been doing this since nearly 2005 wiht no
problems and I have installed the latest update (Acronis), to try and solve the problem.
THe problem is the laptop, as I use that program with other PCs with no problems at all.
Sometimes worked/sometimes not.
Lately (the last few weeks) it started to do it more often and I thought the ext. HDD was gone (I do not believe it!) and I
replaced the ext. HDD with another one I had (new).
It did work fine. Then the next time it did exactly the same (strangely, the other HDD seems intermittently recognised by
Windows (I connected it directly using a IDE/USB lead).
This is not the end.
In the last few days I had this lapto shutting down at its pleasure.
This morning, I switched on and after a few minutes I found it off! - Please note, I do have a new battery too.
Now it starts and as soon as it finished to load windows it shuts down.
I disconnected any external device and still the same - there are no drivers problem.
The other day, when it shut down and I re-booted, windows told me that there was a problem with the Audio driver which I
have installed using the link furnished.
Apart from that, I am completely in the S***
Any help, any idea.
Power supply and battery are new and working fine!
Instead of spending money (I did not want to) on the insurance which is a shambles and never used it (!), I could have purchased a MAC.
You can be very good wiht computers these days, but they are 'mostly' untrustable and all your effort to keep them fine - do
all your backups etc. are of no use and I am a tidy person by nature ! What more can I do? Use my old 386 or 486 - both still
working fine after 20 years?
I do not have a back up and I use it for business too.
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Hi
There are F18 and F5 marked screw and you must get them all off.
Some of them are inside the HDD compartment.
I think I have got them all and I am now opening the part near the Screen hinges.
I already opened a Toshiba Pro sometime ago for one of my customers and repaired the DC socket - did it the same day for a business and saved his life! He is still thanking me.
There must be 1 or 2 screw left as I remember the keyboard comes 'swiveling' up towards you at the same time the top part near the screen hinges lifts up.
I have nearly done it!
After you get all the screw out, the silver surrounding comes up a bit, by inserting a tiny blade in the surounding gap.
Last time I did lift the keyboard easily, but not this time.
I cannot lift it !
Done it!
As I remembered the other one.
Just lif tthe silver part near the screen hinges - 'carefully! - and then the keyb has a couple of screws.
Obvious connectors to disconnect, get rid of the screen, etc.
Now I have the whole bottom part wih the mobo and I have taken out a few screws.
I cannot lif the mobo yet!
Once lifted, just a bit of cleaning - when?
Mind I have a antistatic bench and I am earthed!
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Can a T520i that was configured without an mSATA drive have one added?

I have a T520i (4242 4UU) that was configured without an mSATA drive. Can I add one to it and migrate my Windows (7 Pro 64 bit) partitions to it? (My HD has apparently lost on of the windows partitions so I'll have to do a full installation anyway). Will I have to get drivers first to support the 4 kilo-byte sectors? (my T520i was originally purchased in November 2010 and AFAICD, Lenovo did not add the ability to handle 4kb sectors until December 2010) or will just upgrading the BIOS suffice? Is there any way to upgrade the BIOS from a DVD or USB zip without a hard disk or operating system functioning? If not, will I have to first install a temporary HD, install windows, upgrade the BIOS and THEN migrate windows to the mSATA? Am I correct in assuming that the new SATA III mSATA SSDs with be backwards compatible with a T520i?

Hi
You can perform BIOS upgrade from CD/DVD media:
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-t-series-laptops/thinkpad-t520i/downloads/DS018809
Prepare that media on any system with CD/DVD drive attached.
You can install new system on the msata drive from scratch or by entire HDD cloning.
4k sectors trouble isn't actual for modern (upgraded) system and drives.
msata drives with SATA III interface are backward compatible with T520 msata slot.
Note the drive should be in the msata formfactor, not modern m.2.

Kernel Panic after Reformat?

I certainly thought this blinking light issue was cure by
reformatting/reinstalling Tiger. But, today while browsing I suddenly got a grey/blacked out screen with a message in five languages; 'You must shut down and reboot the computer using the power button'. I did, and upon restart the sleep light immediately began blinking again. I haven't had time yet to check the HD for bad messages I was receiving before the reformat, but will soon. Was this a kernel panic? I had just rebuilt all docs/iTunes etc...Hate to go through that again, but wondering if another try on it may work? Thanks

Hello cornelius - Well, I may be defeated here on this. I did the reformat/reinstall the old fashioned way; I erased the HDD from Disk Utility, then ran the Tiger disk for the reinstall, then firewired back iTunes/docs etc from my eMac G4. Those error readings I reported this morning were from booting from the install disk, then running disk utility. Before responding to your last post here, I ran disk utility siply from the app, with no disk, and got the following message; 'incorrect number of Extended Attributes', and 'HDD needs repair'. I do hate to have to do this all over, but it's hard to imagine DW or TTP doing any more after a complete erase sequence.
If it helps, I'll paste here your response to me from 8/5/08 that I used to format the new harddrive after I installed it. Hoping that these would be the best method for the reformat/reinstall I recently performed. Thanks much.
viejo62:
As Joe explained, a new HDD needs to be formatted before you install. Here are step by step directions:
Formatting, Partitioning Erasing a Hard Disk Drive
Boot from the install CD holding down the "C" key.
Select language
• Go to the Utilities menu (Tiger) Installer menu (Panther & earlier) and launch Disk Utility.
• Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
• Select Partition tab in main panel. (You are about to create a single partition volume.)
• Click on Options button
• Select Apple Partition Map (PPC Macs) or GUID Partition Table (Intel Macs)
• Click OK
• Select number of partition in pull-down menu above Volume diagram.
(Note 1: One partition is normally preferable for an internal HDD.)
• Type in name in Name field (usually Macintosh HD)
• Select Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
• Click Partition button at bottom of panel.
• Select Erase tab
• Select the sub-volume (indented) under Manufacturer ID (usually Macintosh HD).
• Check to be sure your Volume Name and Volume Format are correct.
• Click Erase button
• Quit Disk Utility.
Your HDD is now ready for installation. If you have your entire HDD cloned to an external firewire HDD, you can now boot from the external and clone back. Or, if you prefer to install fresh and then restore, here are step by step directions for installation:
Installation Process
While booted from the install disk
• Open Installer and begin installation.
• Select installation option
• Choose to Customize and deselect Foreign Language Translations and Additional Printer drivers.
Optional: Check box to install X11 (Tiger) BSD Subsystems (Panther & earlier).
• Proceed with installation.
• After installation computer will restart for setup.
• After setup, reboot computer.
• Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
• Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
• Select First Aid in main panel.
• Click Repair Disk Permissions.
• Connect to Internet.
• Download and install Mac OS X 10.4.11 Combo update (PPC) (Tiger) or
10.3.9 Combo Update (Panther)
Computer will restart.
• Repair Disk Permissions as previously.
• Go to Apple Menu > Software Update.
• Install all updates.
Computer may restart after updates.
• Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
• Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
• Select First Aid in main panel.
• Click Repair Disk Permissions.
cornelius
PismoG4 550, 120GB 5400 Seagate internal, 1 GB RAM; Pismo 500 OS X (10.4.11) Mac OS X (10.4.11) Beige G3 OS 8.6
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Save Firefox setting after windows crashes

My C:\ drive is the System Recovery partition. My D:\drive is my windows partition... I messed up on a HDD cloning... Windows will not start up and I believe a fresh install is in order, however I do not recall the last time I backup-ed up my saved passwords/bookmarks. If I connect my HDD to a different computer, is there a file from firefox I can copy over to have all my saved passwords and bookmarks? Or do you need to back it up while its running?

This article might also be useful: [[Recovering important data from an old profile]].

Running 10.2.8 and Panther as two different startup disks?

I am working on a Gr currently running 10.2.8. I need to keep the option to use 10.2.8 because of the ProTool application I use for now.
I got the upgrade to Panther (got a new iPod that requires 10.3.9). But can I keep 10.2.8 as an option for my startup disk? In other words, can I have both 10.2 and 10.3 on my machine as startup disk options?
If this is possible, how do I install the Panther? I know there is an option to create a Previous System, but the program says I can't use a Previous System as a startup disk.
Please advise.
Thanks.
Amy

Amyt:
You will have to re-format your HDD to be able to re-partition your HDD. That means that your data will be completely destroyed in the process. Although there are utilities that promise to do dynamic partitioning, I have not used them myself, and the reports I have heard from others is not promising. You would be well advised to backup your computer before attempting such a step, anyway.
As Jeff suggested, you will need to back up your entire computer to an external Firewire HDD. SuperDuper makes the job of making a bootable of your entire HDD very easy. You can then clone it back to the designated partition when you are done.
Once you have your HDD cloned to an external Firewire HDD,
boot from the Panther install disk holding down the "C" key.
Go to the installer menu and launch Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left sidebar.
Select the Partition tab in main panel.
Create two partitions, and size them accordingly.
Type the name of the top partition in Name field
Select Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Check box to install Mac OS 9 drivers.
Select second partion and follow procedure above.
Click partition button at the bottom.
Select First Aid tab.
Run Repair Disk.
Quit Disk Utility,
Open installer and install OS
(You may want to choose to customize and deselect Foreign Language Translations and Additional Printer Drivers. It is also advisable to select to install BSD subsystems).
Then you can clone your Jaguar partition back.
Should you need further assistance, please do not hesitate to post back.
Good luck.
cornelius
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Add profile from iBook (Panther) to G5 PM (Leopard)

I have an iBook with Panther, can I add a profile from that Mac to my G5 PowerMac running Leopard, without messing up this existing profiles on the G5?
I have the whole iBook HDD cloned using CCC onto a FW drive.

you can try using Migration Assistant (it's in Applications/Utilities) and import one user account only. this will not affect your existing accounts. however, I'm not sure how well MA works when moving from Panther to leopard directly.

Transferring music and/or pictures to storage.

I need to know how I can do a disk clean without deleting my pictures? I am trying to game more space on my hard drive. I was told, if I put a check mark on the box for the temporary sync file for my music/pictures I wouldn't be able to play or see them anymore. How can I transfer my music/pictures to another spot? If I get an external hard drive, would I be able to transfer my pictures/music to it? Please help ASAP!!!

I'm going to somewhat side step your question because I want to let you know something. You really should use an external drive as a backup of what is already on your machine and not just to store things on so you don't need them on your machines HDD. The key is data redundancy. I would feel horrible if you transfered all your pictures over to an external, deleted them from your computers HDD and then your external died on you.
My suggestion would be to look into upgrading the built in HDD, cloning your current OS, programs and data to the new larger HDD and then setting the external as a backup so you have data redundancy and room to grow.

SBS2008 Standard Complete PC Restore failed with (0x80070495)

Urgent help needed! I am trying to recover my SBS2008 standard machine after
a RAID controller failure. I removed the dead adaptec 51645 and am using 2
1TB RAID1 on the ICH9R. I then proceeded to initiate Windows complete PC
restore with the SBS2008 standard disc.
The old RAID on the 51645 is only 720GB large so the new 1TB RAID1 should be
large enough for the restore.
But I keep on getting "The Volume ID could not be found. (0x80070495)"
error. Nothing seems to be helping.
So please help!!!!

I somehow managed to rescue the server thru a lot of brute force efforts..... Essentially, the problem seems to be that the bootsect config has been corrupted on the backup images.
Symptoms:
1) No concrete errors from WSB eventlog.
2) When trying the repair option from the SBS2008DVD, Unknown on Unknown device, Windows 2008 may appear at the Select OS to repair dialog box. Or it could be blank for the new drive.
3) When attempting complete PC Restore, operation will fail despite having enough HD space with error:
"The Volume ID could not be found. (0x80070495)"
When I ended up doing:
1) Find a Server 2008 machine. I need WSB that to access the backup image from the backup drive. Logon with admin rights.
2) Attached the drive containing the backup to the Server 2008 machine. The drive will be automatically assigned a letter but the user may not have access to the backup drive's content (yet).
3) Launch WSB.
4) Attempt some recovery operation with WSB. For eg, restore some directories from the backup image onto a temp location. This gives the system access to the backup drive contents.
5) At this point, open up a windows explorer, and look for the backup VHDs on the backup drive via the drive letter. Copy them out to a separate directory. The VHDs will be named with GUIDs, rename them to shorter filenames.
6) Find a WS2008R2 or Windows 7 machine. They have native VHD mounting capabilities.
7) Mount the VHDs via disk managements.
8) Use HDD cloning applications to clone the different VHDs to other hard disks. I used Norton Ghost14 on my W7 machine. Make sure to clone the system drive (C:) with options to set bootable(active) and copy MBR.
9) Move the cloned disk(s) back to the original server. And reset BIOS to boot from the correct disk with the restored system partition.
10) Try booting. If everything is ok, you will get an error regarding something about ntloader.exe.
11) Boot with the SBS2008DVD again. Choose repair. Go into a command prompt.
12) CD into C:\windows\system32. This should be your restored system drive.
13) fire up bcdedit. Output will probably show unknown in several entries.
14) Reset the unknown entries with commands like bcdedit /set {default} device partition=C:
At this point, reboot. I was able to successfully recover the server this way. Definitely a real hassle. How the BCD on the backup images got corrupted, I have no idea. And this shouldn't be so difficult to fix as all the underlying data is fine........

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