Rescue & Recovery or Windows 7 Backup

Does anyone have an opinion which is best to use?
Would it matter if you used both?
Tony Tedesco

Herik wrote:
Hi,
you are welcome.
Please surely let me know if you will have any additional questions to this thread, so that I can follow up on this one.
Or one you will see this sitaution as fixed, then just mark it as fixed.
In any case post here some of your new remarks, so that also the rest of the community can benefit from it
Cheers
So, with your help I am back up and running with my RAID 10 disk but with some questions- if you can clarify.
What I have now is:
4x 250MB-320MB Drives in a RAID 10 array (with one additional drive configured as a hot spare). Total disk space 468 GB and higher performance with security. Cool!
Using R&R boot from DVD drive OS came up and running no problem (the driver I preinstalled before the upgrade worked fine after upgrade to RAID)
Questions:
1. In the Recovery Workspace you are asked what you want to recover- I chose the Base back-up as it seemed the right choice- but the supplemntal backups were presented as options too...The supplementals were only from the last week or so, so relatively small. Should I now reboot into the workspace and recover them also - one by one? Is that the process- or would choosing the most recent back-up have picked up ALL of the prior ones too?
2. OS drive was previously 246GB and after recovery to my surprise- still 246GB- The Lenovo recovery partition had expanded to fill the rest of the drive...I guess R&R really is an image. I tried to load my trusty Partition Magic 8.0 only to find there isn't a Win 7 version- nor will there be....Another fine product destroyed by Symantec. I had used Partition Magic since OS/2 days....
3. I found another Partition Magic clone (EASEUS Partition Master) which looks suspiciously like Partition Magic and runs in Win 7 and to my great surprise was able to rearrange and expand the primary partition to 468G or so and plant the Lenovo recovery partition at the end.
So- I am up and running except for the last two supplemental back-ups- (which doesn't really worry me). I would like to know what I could have done better to get it ALL for next time.
Thanks for your help. It is really closed except for my above questions.
Al

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Rescue & Recovery with Windows 7?

Does anyone know if the existing version of Rescue & Recovery (here) will work with Windows 7 RC?
If it "should" work, then I'll install it, if there are plans to release a new R&R specifically for Windows 7, then I'll wait until that new version is available.
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BTW, after I installed Win 7 I cannot access the hidden partition that contains the old Vista/factory default backup files, even though the partition is still there and intact. If I ever need to go back to Vista I will definitely need to access that partition since I didn't have any Vista OS backup files on DVDs. Only the data files are backed up.
I had a same problem after installing the windows 7 with partition S:. all you have to do is assign a letter to this partition since it probably does not have one right now. That was my case. Partition was there but no letter was assigned to it. Also Q partition was changed to D.
I have installed R&R version 4.21, I believe, and it works. Well, almost. Pressing ThinkVantage button during the start-up brings up BIOS and not the R&R as I think it should.
R&R 4.21 link
(http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-70035)
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Rescue & Recovery lists no backups on Iomega USB eGO disk

Hi,
I have been using an Iomega eGO external USB drive for backups.
I have been able to list and remove backups (when required) when in Windows 7 and running Rescue & Recovery, but I am unable to get a list of backups when booting from a Recovery DVD into Rescue & Recovery.
Basically I am replacing the unencrypted hard drive with an SSD that supports encryption.
The aim was to use a full backup made immediately prior to removing the HDD to restore the full system.
When booting from the recovery DVD, the Rescue & Recovery utility doesn't list any backups, even when the tick box for listing backups for other systems is checked.
It makes no difference whether selecting ALL locations or External USB Drive.
Any ideas?
Backups aren't much good if you can't retrieve them.
If my old disk had failed then I'd be in a worse state than this. I can't say that I'm impressed.
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Hello and welcome,
Has R&R been updated since you made your bootable DVD? It's possible there's a version mismatch between your backups and your R&R DVD.
You might try burning a new rescue CD - or whatever it's called on your machine, "bootable media" maybe. That may be able to find your backups.
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Rescue & Recovery Unable to backup ....

Hello,
I have used Rescue & Recovery for many years and love it. It has save me multiple times.
I recently installed Google Desktop. There are about a dozen Google Desktop files that R&R says it is unable to backup. I have to manually say "skip" to get the backup to complete successfully. This is a pain.
Q1) Is their a way to add these files to a R&R "exclude" list so R&R does not attempt to back them up? I do not need them in my R&R backup, as they can easily be recreated.
Q2) Or alternately, is their an adjustment I can make to Google Desktop so that R&R will backup these Google Desktop files?
Thank you for your assistance.

you can exclude files in R&R go to advance mode and at the top of that click on advance then exclude files
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WS2012 R2 Recovery from Windows Backup Not Working

Hi,
I tried to perform a bare metal recovery of a Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system backup but I can't get it to recover or access earlier restore points. Any help would be appreciated! I want to avoid reinstalling the OS *again*.
I have a hardware install of Windows Server 2012 R2 on drive (a), backup services saved to drive (b), and my server folders on RAID pool (c). I had verified that Windows Server Backup was executing daily and I was previously able to see several backups
in the list of restore points.
I first tried to use the Windows Recovery Wizard to restore a "Volumes" recovery on drive (a); however, I can't select the "Source Volume" (C:) to equal the "Desination Volume" (C:). I just want to replace the current drive
(a) with what's backed up. Why is this? Should this be working with source equal to destination?
Then, when restoring Windows using startup disk & recovery options, I can't see more than the last backup. Older restore points are not available. Plus, my local administrator password is not being accepted. So many things are going wrong...
The last thing I did was enable the Windows Server Essentials role and set it up, which did include picking a domain name. I wasn't happy with the ".local" TLD that was automatically created so I wanted to restore before Essentials was set up.
Is this what is preventing a recovery?
Thanks!
Steve

Hi Steve,
For performing a restore, please make sure you boot with an installation disk and restore to correct target volume - here is an article with pictures incase there is any difference on your side:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2010/06/11/how-to-perform-a-bare-metal-restore-on-small-business-server-2008.aspx
Note: Steps are for Windows SBS 2008 but it is the same as using a Windows 2012 R2 installation disk to do a recovery.
Meanwhile from the description, it is a file server before installing Windows Server Essentials role. So it is a domain controller now.
Then it should also work by uninstall Windows Server Essentials role:
It may not able to be uninstalled at once but it will suggest to uninstall some roles (which it installed in order to convert to Essential server and a DC) first. If all suggested roles could be uninstalled, you can also uninstall Windows Server Essentials
role so that it will back from DC to file server - you can reinstall it later.
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Rescue Recovery / No Windows password / Unrgistered user Client Security Solutions

Hello....When boosted my Lenovo 3000 V100, I got the message saying that Windows could not start because the file "windows root \ system32 \ hal.dll" was either missing or damaged, and that a copy should be reinstaled.
I tried to access the Rescue and Recovery 3, which deployed but then asked me for my Windows password, which I don't have. I pressed Enter anyways and got as answer that I'm not registered with Client Security Solutions, and that only registered users can start a session in Rescue and Recovery or retrieve passwords in case they had been forgotten. What can I do?. I bought my laptop in Chile (spanish) and I am currently living in France.
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Can you install Windows 7, then revert to a backup image of Vista with Rescue & Recovery?

I have a copy of 7 I want to put on my T61. I've partitioned the OS into one partion, and the files into another.
I've made backup copies of the OS with Rescue & Recovery already, so can I install Windows 7 over Vista, then if I find I don't want to stick with it, recover back to Vista?
T61 15.4" T9300 (2.5GHz 6MB L2) Windows 7 Professional x64 4GB Memory, NVidia Quadro NVS 140M

When you get to BOOTCAMP, that has to be changed from FAT to NTFS but you have to click Advanced Option.... button in order to change to NTFS.
The GPT error message can happen if you have more than one internal hard drive (say SSD and TB model).
If you didn't use Assistant, and some have managed, undo the partition.
Paragon CampTune $19 can also assist with installing Windows, creating the partition - but may not work with Lion, though you aren't there yet.

Rescue and Recovery and Windows 8.1

Hi,
For the last 4 years I used Rescue and Recovery on the my ThinkPads to keep backups (really liked the incremental backup feature) and restore single files when needed.
I now just got a new X1 Carbon gen3 coming with Windows 8.1 installed by default and lot of the classic ThinkVantage tools are missing. I understood many of these tools doesn't exist anymore or are replaced by "apps".
But what about Rescue and Recovery? Can't find it anywhere for Windows 8.1 and it's really an important tool.
Any idea? Did I just miss the link somewhere? It's official and this tools isn't supported (and will never be) on Windows 8.1? Any workaround? (like installing the one of Windows 7 and cross my fingers?)
Thanks for your input on that (I'm already hating Windows 8.1, luckily Windows 10 will be better ...)
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Thanks to confirm it doesn't exist (for now I hope) for win8/8.1. I will have a look at Windows backup and in the same time think about the downgrade to Windows 7 (also for some other reasons).

Rescue & Recovery resets backup time

I'm on a Windows 7 64 bit x230 laptop. Rescue & Recovery 4.50 keeps resetting my backup time to noon, I keep setting it to middle of the night when it would be convenient to do a backup. Why is it doing this? I have tried resetting the schedule in both advanced rescue & recovery and the basic page. Yes, I am hitting save or apply.

The windows task scheduler has the launch entry for RNR scheduled backups.
Go to Control Panel, Admin tools, task scheduler. Double click the task scheduler library, then you will see a list of folders. Double click the TVT folder. You will see an entry called LaunchRnR. Right click this entry, and do Properties.
Please post the current Trigger contents. Does it say weekly or such, at NOON as you describe?
Look in C:\SWshare\rr.log for the following entries:
Tue Jun 12 13:56:42 2012 RescueRecovery: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Lenovo\Scheduler\tvtsetsched.exe
Tue Jun 12 13:56:42 2012 RescueRecovery: update task="LaunchRnR" trigger=RnRTrigger triggertype=weekly time=2012-06-01T07:00:42 day=0 action=RnRAction actiontype=exe argument="BACKUP location=L name="Scheduled" scheduled"
Tue Jun 12 13:56:42 2012 RescueRecovery: Running: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Lenovo\Scheduler\tvtsetsched.exe update task="LaunchRnR" trigger=RnRTrigger triggertype=weekly time=2012-06-01T07:00:42 day=0 action=RnRAction actiontype=exe argument="BACKUP location=L name="Scheduled" scheduled"
Tue Jun 12 13:58:52 2012 RescueRecovery: In GetBackupFolderName, UUID is CC5F1FA34DEF30F6-B487057ED9063ADC!
Tue Jun 12 13:58:52 2012 RescueRecovery: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Lenovo\Scheduler\tvtschedinterface.dll
Tue Jun 12 13:58:52 2012 RescueRecovery: g_pTVTSchedulerInterface is NULL!
Tue Jun 12 13:58:52 2012 RescueRecovery: Get back from GetTaskNextRunTime and return value is 0, next run time is 2012-6-17 7:0:42
After you set your desired backup schedule, check your log for the above messages. ie, RC=0. Then check task scheduler for matching launch schedule. Please post the portion of RR.log containing the above messages.

Rescue & Recovery Backup Failing on T60

Hi all -- I'd appreciate any help on the following problem:
I've been performing regular backups of my T60 to an external HDD via USB for about a year now. I've been using Rescue & Recovery version 3.10.0022.00. Everything's been fine until a couple of weeks ago when after about 20 minutes into the backup, a message popped up that said "Backup did not complete sucessfully."
The R&R help files are worthless in terms of any sort of troubleshooting information.
I have 99 GB of space left on the external drive (at least according to R&R), and the HDD that I'm backing up has signficantly less data than 99 GB so I don't think space is a problem. (Curiously, before I ran the first backup that failed, R&R said I had about 110 or 120 GB free, and only after failing the first time and subsequent times did it say I only had 99 GB free).
I've read of people solving some of their R&R problems by reinstalling, but I'm afraid that the newly installed software won't recognize the backups already taken, and I'll be forced to delete them. I don't want to do this for several reasons.
Can anyone help?
Many thanks.

Hi, eacuni.
I have no solution to this but am sharing your experience.
I am running Windows XP on a T60 FDG1951. Ever since I installed XP Service Pack 3 Rescue and Recovery has not been working properly while before that time I never had problems creating backups. Since installing SP3, Rescue and Recovery aborts backing up 100% of the time, showi ng an error message that simply states either that creating the backup was unsuccessful or - even more simply - that it was aborted. No explanation offered.
Uninstalling Rescue and Recovery and newly installing the most recent version (4.21.0016.00), as the IBM/lenovo helpdesk suggested, didn't help any, either. Nor can it be a problem of a lack of space on my hard drive: I'm creating (trying to create, that is) my backups on an external USB drive with a lush 220 GB free.
So can anyone of you out there please help poor eacuni and me?
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Thomas

Rescue & Recovery can't find by backups - EXCEPT in the restore function. Help

I recently optimized   files, including placement
on disk - machine now flies. I wanted to start from scratch with R&R). So,
deleted all backups on Local and USB.
I launched a Base Backup - initiated manually, shut down,
rebooted, came back up could not view backups - Message 'NO BACKUPS
FOUND' hen trying from 'view all back-ups', or 'delete backups' from Advanced
menu. However I can find them using RESTORE FROM BACKUP.
Repeated starting with a new backup, same results exactly, except
now I have two BASE backups. I even booted to the TV R&R
environment maybe find things there. No luck - no ability to initiate a backup from Boot TV
environment, but could restore from the two backups.
I see no other choice other than uninstall 3.01? Do you? However, the newest
version out there is 4.22.. Any reason why I shouldn't upgrade to the
newest release? I read all the warning, installation notes, bugs, etc., none seem to apply to me.
If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate it, or if you know any
reason why 4.22 is not a good option...?
Thanks in advance
Rescue & Recovery version 3.01 T60 machine type = 2623 - Model -
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After deciding to recover a large amount of disk space, and start over with a new BASE - so deleted off all backups (I have a set on DVD's). Used the Delete Backups under the Advanced tab. Version 3.01.0037.
Ran a new base backup (successful), but when trying to look at it using every available function in R&R - it could not find any backup " ". Kept on messing around until low and behold, when attempting to do a restore, it finds the backups and lets me restore from it. I could have lived with it but every backup it took (I tried two more) were each bases meaning big consumer of harddrive space.
Mistake one - called Lenovo (3 year contract), they suggested upgrade to most current version of R&R 4.21 or 4.22. Walked me through it (no worries) and got new one installed. PS: Version 4 has some new very slick features. Ran backup (I monitored using Task Manager - processes) - ran for a couple of hours never consuming more than one % of CPU. Cancel button inoperative - eventually had to shut down machine. When booted up again, R&R Processes continue to run and all attempts to start R&R unsuccessful.
Back to Lenovo - eventually tried with 3 other release versions (all R4), same results. They suggest reimage platform and start over. Note: I had no problems whatsoever until trying to recover space from R&R by deleting backups.
Gave up on Lenovo and reinstalled V3.01.0042 (most recent R3 version). Everything appears to run fine. Doing backups, can see them, tried a couple of restores, everything worked perfectly.
New variable. Was convinced that XP sp/3 had been out there long enough, over a year,so decided to install. First thing, take a new backup even though the base was less than 48 hours old.
It became evident very evident that SP/3 had caused a lot of instability to my machine. BSOD's all over the place, so decided to go back. My first approach, go back by restoring to my last backup using R&R. (at least the Window System since everything else had not changed). I started in Windws to select which backup and what I wanted to do.    R&R then shut down Windows and began firing up the R&R boot space in order to do the Windows restore.
Here's the reason I ended up at this NTLDR post, was after stopping temporarily with the delete of the MBR, I thought I might reinstall version 3.02.0042 and see if that had any impact on the MBR. So, I installed it, ran a delta backup which ran quick since hadn't changed much, then shut down and attempted to boot into the R&R Recovery Space. Low and Behold, I get the NTLDR is Compressed - message . Which took me here.
I followed your advice and downloaded the files and burned them to a diskette, ran the diskette, then tried to boot into the recovery space.
To my surprise, Version 4 of R&R fired up (where did that come from when I had uninstalled all version 4's using the Add/Remove program function). And of course, once it was all loaded it gave me the message that it couldn't find the backup Record where it expected it to be (it was on an external USB drive).
So now, I need to figure out how to get rid of Version 4 on the MBR so I can load it again with the right version. Lenovo suggested to be that could be accomplished by doing the following:
Uninstall R&R v 3.01 - using add/remove programs
Boot into Bios - Disable Pre-Desktop - save and exit.
Uninstall R&R v 3.01 - using add/remove programs
Boot into Bios - Disable Pre-Desktop - save and exit.
Reboot into Windows
Right click on My Computer, select Manage - get to Disk Manager - select the Service partition of the C hard drive (the MBR) and Delete the Service partition.
Install the new 3.01version of R&R (and it will also rebuild the with the proper version - the only one it now knows about.)
I got as far as the Delete the Service Partition, but the computer would not let me delete it. In fact, it would allow me to delete the primary NTFS partition, but the delete was grayed out on the Fat32 Service Partition.
So, my next step is to install Norton Partition Magic and use that to remove the Fat32 Service Partition. But before I do so I need to know that what I am doing has a good potential to solve the problems I am having, and not just compounding the problems to the point where I will have no choice but to reload with a factory image and manually bring it forward (not fun)
One question i had for you, on the NTLDR diskette, you didn't have anything on it that would load R&R v4 into the MBR did you? I didn't think so.
do you think the solution suggested will work? And any potential pitfalls I should be aware of,or if you have a better idea, I am all ears.
Thanks so much in advance for your assistance.
Regards
Fred J
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Windows Server 2012 - Backup failing with Exchange - The application will not be available for recovery from this backup. the consistency check failed

Hi
We have a Windows 2012 server with Exchange 2013, all is working fine except now i am getting issues with the backup.
'Exchange - The application will not be available for recovery from this backup. the consistency check failed for the component Microsoft Exchange Server'
I have checked the database all is fine, i have created a new db and move all mailbox;s over and then removed the old db, i have enabled circular logging and then disabled it, it seems no matter what i do i cannot get a full backup!
i did have to restore the server once and the backups still worked for about 4 days after that and then stopped, i have also tried to remove and re add the backup role!
i am stumped, any advice would be great!

Hi
Ok, i created a test db and tried to back it up right away, it failed, i did not add any mailbox's to it either. i got quite a few events in the windows logs, as well as the same event above i got the following:
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 2038
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
Microsoft Exchange VSS Writer backup failed. No log files were truncated. Instance 75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9. Database 4843b37c-7b3c-42b2-8b57-1393615c2c15.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSExchangeRepl" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32772">2038</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261645</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9</Data>
<Data>4843b37c-7b3c-42b2-8b57-1393615c2c15</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
AND
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 2038
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
Microsoft Exchange VSS Writer backup failed. No log files were truncated. Instance 75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9. Database db5826f3-1029-4219-ad80-441a0e94537a.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSExchangeRepl" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32772">2038</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261646</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9</Data>
<Data>db5826f3-1029-4219-ad80-441a0e94537a</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
and
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 2034
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
The Microsoft Exchange Replication service VSS Writer (Instance 75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9) failed with error FFFFFFFC when processing the backup completion event.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSExchangeRepl" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49156">2034</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261649</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9</Data>
<Data>FFFFFFFC</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
and
Log Name: Application
Source: SPP
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 16389
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
Writer Microsoft Exchange Writer experienced retryable error during shadow copy creation. Retrying... More info: .
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="SPP" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">16389</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261650</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Microsoft Exchange Writer</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>The writer experienced a transient error. If the backup process is retried, the error may not reoccur. (0x800423F3)</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Binary>00000000A5120000981200000000000042BEB7C511CAC619E59C92030000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

How do I restore a Windows Backup Server backup recovery partition?

I'm trying to test restoring a backup from our real server on a temp server.
First, I was surprised it can't do a restore to a smaller drive because the original server is only 1/3 full (it wants to restore all the empty bytes too).
Also it appears it wants to see that target partitions are already created.
It wants to restore recovery to an EXISTING recovery partition and OS to an existing OS partition all with exact sizes.
What if the old system died and I had to go to something new?
Do I have to preinstall 2012 R2 on a bare drive so it creates the partitions?
I've been down this path before, if it's not byte for byte match (offsets and all) it won't boot.
I'm pretty sure I could restore just the OS partition and then do a Windows Repair which would move the master boot record onto the OS drive. But that seems wrong.
What's the proper way to restore?
Is Windows Backup Server to limiting?

Hi,
1. When trying to recover a partition, it requires a same or larger target partition. If you only backup data, there is no size limitation of the target partition.
2. We need an operation system to do the recovery. However you can perform a Bare Metal Backup so it could be restored without operation system - but it may force to backup more than partition C.
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Windows 7 from Rescue&Recovery

Hi, I have a lenovo g530 laptop, got it with windows vista 32-bit operating system, I would like to upgrade my vista to windows 7. my problem is that I don't know how to make windows 7 load up from rescue and recovery instead of vista.
Do I just need to download the newer version of Rescue&Recovery or to copy the partition somehow...?
Please help me with this one.. Thank you!

I do not think it can be done.
If anyone knows how, they might get a ton of kudos!
A good method is to get a external HD, and use Win 7's built in
disk imaging software to back up to external.
You could use a partition on the internal HD, but that is not as disaster proof.
If you have NO intention of getting Vista back in the future, you can
re-partition the HD when installing Win 7.
If you want to have that option, create recovery disks in Vista, and then
install Win 7 in the same C:\ partition as Vista. Don't resize partition!
Rescue button will not work, but you will be able to recover Vista from recovery disks.

No HDD Recovery Area, Windows 7 backup process fails.

(similar problem to Mr. archegudnam posting)
This new Toshiba NB205 Running Win7 consistently fails attempts to use the Recovery Media Creator.
"No HDD Recovery Area" is the quoted cause. However, the Windows Administrator Disk Management Tool reports the partition to be healthy.
Additionally, Windows Backup Tool fails. No backup media is created, including disk image option failure, regardless the backup data selection criteria (windows choose or I choose ). Following the logs to the failure report indicated, specify an "unsupported file system".
All available updates (Windows and Toshiba) have been requested via automatic update tools.
Comments?
-dbrown
Regards,
dbrown
NB205-N325BL, Win 7/32.

Mr. archegudnam
You are not alone. I have a new Toshiba NB205 running Windows7, and I too receive the message "No HDD Recovery Area" from the OEM Toshiba Recovery Media Creator s/w bundled on the machine, as received at purchase.
Using Windows Backup also fails, sees an "unsupported file system", will not back up or even create a simple disk image.
The only thing I have not tried yet is the image creator built into the u-lead s/s bundled with the Toshiba CD/DVD (USB) Optical Drive accessory, the one advertised alongside the NB205 on Toshiba web site.
Mr. Jim - Is there any help from Toshiba on the horizon for this issue? I have already attempted to find posted updates with the built-in update tool.
Best Regards to both,
dbrown
Regards,
dbrown
NB205-N325BL, Win 7/32.

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