Invalid system disk when recovering from USB system image

I have a Toshiba L650 running win7. The internal disk failed recently so I replaced it with one I bought locally. I successfully recovered the DVD based system image I took soon after purchasing the laptop. I am now trying to
recover later system images I made to an attached USB drive. I am using a system recovery disk to boot into the recovery process and am successfully finding the USB based system images. However soon after the recovery process begins I get an eror like "Cannot recover to system disk". There are 3 reasons provided
a. system disk is in the exclusion list - no I checked
b. system disk is a USB disk - no the system image is on the USB drive but the system disk is the internal HDD
c. system disk is invalid - no I just installed a system image from DVD onto it - no problems
How do I proceed? There is obviously a valid system image but I just can't get iti nto the machine.
cheers,

Usually such message appears if you try to boot from CD which is no bootable.
Possibly the BIOS cannot boot up from the PCMCIA drive and tries to boot from the HDD.
But on the HDD the OS is missing and therefore the message appears.
Did you try to force the booting manually?
You could try to press the C button immediately after the notebook starting for booting from PCMCIA drive.
Please read also this Toshiba knowledge article:
Portg R100 supported Recovery Drives
http://support.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB5100S70004R01.htm

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ee the end of this message for details on invoking
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************** Exception Text **************
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timer3 tick event and enabled to maximize the form if minimized
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
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using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Diagnostics;
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private const int SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED = 3;
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private const int SW_SHOWDEFAULT = 10;
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double Total2 = 0;
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SOLUTION for me was to update the firmware on my ASRock mb as thatu pdate changed the EFI software (by American Megatrends) version from 2.00 to 2.31. However, other users are still experiencing the blue screen.
SHORT VERSION
When I try to boot Arch Linux 2013.07 with an USB drive in UEFI mode (for installation), I get a blue screen (which is rather a literal description and not a hint towards the old Windows' one) with the message
Failed to install override security policy (14): Not found
LONG VERSION
I made an USB installation media (product: Intenso Rainbow) by following this advice on the wiki.
I used the july release of Arch for that. First of, after installing the image to the USB stick I found that I needed to correct the label in the archiso-x86_64.conf file to ARCH_201307 (or was it the label of the usb stick, can't remember right now). (Pretty sure it was the same problem with "Linux Live USB Creator" which I used 3-4 months ago...)
After doing that, I rebooted and selected the entry
UEFI Intenso Rainbow
from this list of entries:
SATA HDJ ... something (the hard drive where Win 7 64 bit is installed with all programs)
SATA something (hard drive which only contains data)
Windows Boot Manager
USB: Intenso Rainbow
UEFI: Intenso Rainbow
It went to a blue screen with a message in white text saying
Failed to install override security policy (14): Not found
Below that was an OK button which had a black rectangle over it.
After I experienced the bluescreen, I tried booting the
USB Intenso Rainbow
entry and the boot process then worked fine, I got to that Arch menu where I could choose
Boot Arch Linux (x86_64)
Boot Arch Linux (i686)
Boot existing OS
Run Memtest...
and so on...
But just to make sure, I then did the check for UEFI mode according to this and only saw a folder acpi and ... something else I can't really remember, but it definitely was not efi. Thing is, I needwant to boot into UEFI mode as I have Win 7 already installed in UEFI mode.
Some info about my motherboard: it's from ASRock and is called H67M. The BIOS is dated to 2011-10-26 and is version 1.7.
So far, I only found a mention of the problem here at superuser.com.
Last edited by jones (2013-07-15 07:15:18)

Ok then, so this thread has also become about the blank screen problem when booting (in this particular case, Arch 2013.06 since 2013.07 seems to be worse).
srs5694 wrote:Typically, you adjust kernel boot options using your boot manager or boot loader. In GRUB, you hit the "e" key to open an editor. In rEFInd, you hit F2 or Insert twice. I don't recall offhand what key does the job for gummiboot (which I'm pretty sure the Arch installer uses), but I'm certain it's got the feature.
You are right. Thanks. I realized I had the gummiboot config right in front of me all the time. It's the file 'archiso-x86_64.conf' in \loader\entries (on Windows).
An addendum: I think the USB: Intenso Rainbow boot option takes me into a GRUB menu. Hitting 'e' in this "big" and fully designed menu didn't do anything IIRC. Hitting 'Tab' did the trick to get into editing the boot command line.
Hitting 'e' worked in the gummiboot menu though.
So I tried booting with the following options (also by combining some of them)
nomodeset
acpi_backlight=vendor
radeon.modeset=0 (I have a Gigabyte 7870 card in this desktop machien)
i915.modeset=0
but it did not help.
To be rather safe than sorry: I should mention that there are two grey-ish bars visible on the top and bottom of the screen after I try to boot the first entry, Arch Linux archiso x86_64 UEFI USB. Always has been with those two older Arch version (2013.05+2013.06). I also found another thread where one user talks about using the VGA port of the monitor, which I am currently not, I am using the DVI one, so that's worth a try too. EDIT It did not help either. What I did was setting the primary graphics adapter in the UEFI north bridge configuration menu to 'onboard' which worked immediately when rebooting (I hit the button labeled "Source" on my monitor and it showed it is using the "Analog" mode), but the problem just stayed the same. Adding aforementioned boot options or a combination thereof did not change anything.
Thanks for the e-mail addresses, I sent one to James Bottomley.
Last edited by jones (2013-07-07 11:12:05)

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USE [ReportServer]
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE VIEW [dbo].[ExecutionLog3_Modified]
AS
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-- SubscriptionId,
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WHEN 3 THEN 'DocumentMapNavigation'
WHEN 4 THEN 'DrillThrough'
WHEN 5 THEN 'FindString'
WHEN 6 THEN 'GetDocumentMap'
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END AS ItemAction,
EL.TimeStart,
YEAR(EL.TimeStart) AS Start_Year,
MONTH(EL.TimeStart) AS Start_Month,
DATENAME(MONTH,EL.TimeStart) AS Start_Month_Name,
DATENAME(DW,EL.TimeStart) AS Start_Day_Of_Week,
DATEPART(WEEKDAY,EL.TimeStart) AS Start_Day_Number_of_Week,
EL.TimeEnd,
EL.TimeDataRetrieval,
EL.TimeProcessing,
EL.TimeRendering,
CASE(EL.Source)
WHEN 1 THEN 'Live'
WHEN 2 THEN 'Cache'
WHEN 3 THEN 'Snapshot'
WHEN 4 THEN 'History'
WHEN 5 THEN 'AdHoc'
WHEN 6 THEN 'Session'
WHEN 7 THEN 'Rdce'
ELSE 'Unknown'
END AS Source,
EL.Status,
EL.ByteCount,
EL.[RowCount],
EL.AdditionalInfo,
C.Name,
C.CreatedByID,
C.ModifiedByID,
C.Description,
C.CreationDate,
C.ModifiedDate,
CASE
WHEN C.TYPE=1 THEN 'Folder'
WHEN C.TYPE=2 THEN 'Report'
WHEN C.TYPE=3 THEN 'XML'
WHEN C.TYPE=4 THEN 'Linked Report'
WHEN C.TYPE=5 THEN 'Data Source'
WHEN C.TYPE=6 THEN 'Model'
WHEN C.TYPE=8 THEN 'Shared Dataset'
WHEN C.TYPE=9 THEN 'Report Part'
END AS Type_Description
FROM
ExecutionLogStorage AS EL
LEFT OUTER JOIN Catalog AS C ON (EL.ReportID = C.ItemID)
GO
Lee Markum

Hi Lee,
According to your description, you can't process the dataset when viewing the report on report server. Right?
In this scenario, as you can see the dataset name in error message is empty, and it says "Invalid Object Name". Because you have already created a view in your database. When you run this report again, this query be executed again so that you can
not create another view with same name. So you just need to query the view directly when creating dataset.
Select * from ExecutionLog3_Modify
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
Best Regards,
Simon Hou

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