image restore

Trying to figure out how to restore the old system image on the left. Just made the one on the right. When I try to restore the info is not recognized. Link Removed

Since Microsoft is removing the Backup utility from Windows 8.1, I have been exploring alternatives to that very useful utility. I know there are third party utilities that will work fine, but I would rather stay with a native version, if possible. It seems the utility WBADMIN is capable of...

Hello I copied this from my MS Word to keep for reference. Most of this is Win 7 that is why I selected this instead of Win 8 's forum. I am about to take the plunge but wanted to tie up a few questions so if someone had the time I would appreciate the help. I am going to install Win 8 in my...

[I'm really struggling to type this on my phone] (Fixed the grammar on another computer), basic info: I can't boot my computer in normal mode or safe mode. When I try to do so, after the "starting windows" page the only things that come up are my mouse, a black screen/background, and a...

Hi all, My sister just got a new laptop with 7, then accidentally installed a friend's version of 7 on top of it, thinking it was Microsoft Office. I'm trying to restore to factory settings so she doesn't lose all the software that came with the computer. I know the recovery partition is on...

[This is kinda related to HDs, so I hope this is the right place to post] Hi all, here's my problem: 1) I have a PC running Win7 with 3 HDs(not partition, different HDs). 2) I used Win7 to create an image of the OS HD( C: ) and placed it in D. 3) I used the image once or twice so I know it's a...

I had to reformat my Win 8 DP partition and then restore from an Image I had created. When I did this I lost the fancy new Win 8 DP Boot Screen (boot loader). I did have to go into Win 7 and use EasyBCD to add my Win 8 DP OS to the MBR, but the boring old Win 7 boot screen comes up, even when I...

I made a few months back a backup of my machine(windows 7 64bit edition). The size was like 25gb's so I saved it on my external hard-drive(I bought a case and put a hard drive(Seagate I think) in it). I know want to use this to restore my computer. So I made a system repair disk and loaded...

After restoring my pc from a system image, when windows resarts, it won't boot, & I'm taken to the "startup repair" option screen. After Startup Repair is performed I get the message "Startup Repair Cannot Repair This Computer Automatically" with the following problem details: Problem Event...

Dear users, My system is configured as follows: Dell Dimensions 8400, 8GB RAM, two hard drives with over 500 GB, one holds the operating system and the other data. Windows 7 Home Premium Nvidia GE Force 6800 About a day ago I rebooted and all I got was a complete black screen, no...

I am trying to restore my Dell E6510 Windows 7 64-bit Pro. laptop from a image created by Windows backup that is located on a share on a network drive. Using windows explorer, I can view the image folder. I have not renamed or moved the folder. When I run the Windows restore process, restore...

I'm just about ready to throw this laptop at the wall with the amount of problems I've had with it and I'm also starting to feel like a bit of a burden to this forum but what ever my problem may be this place seems to provide the best answers which is why I come here! heres my old thread that...

I have been running Windows 7 x64 Ultimate for 9 months without any major problems. My set up is as follows: Motherboard: ASUS Striker Extreme, chipset NVIDIA 680i CPU: Intel Core2Duo E6600 RAM: 2x2GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 8500 & 2x1GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 6400, giving a total of 6...

I backed up an image of my sony vaio laptop running windows 7 Home Premium and am looking to use the image to restore a new sony laptop I purchased and I am getting errors while attempting to re-image the new laptop. Is this because it’s a new laptop and the drivers are conflicting? Do you have...

Hello, I hope someone can help me. I have a problem I wasn't expecting. I am using Windows 7 Home Prem and have used the OS software to create a back up image of my hard drive onto an external one, no probs so far. I then go into the repair computer section on boot up that has a restore from...

Hi Everyone, My hard drive stopped working yesterday, but luckily I have a recent complete system image on an external drive. I have since popped in another (different) internal hard drive to restore my image to. The problem is when I use the Windows 7 disk to get to the complete system image...

Hello anyone, I'm experiencing a bug with the Windows 7 Image Recovery Tool. Yesterday I made a backup image of my Maxtor 250GB HDD to an external 1TB USB drive, and today I have to restore it back on the Maxtor disk. When I tried to recover the system from the image I received the message...

I was just trying to keep a fresh up-to-date copy of the OS ready in case my working hd crashed. Is this possible? I'm currently experimenting with this as I've already installed it on the two different drives, but the second clean install won't validate? Is this a restriction by Microsoft, is...

Hi all, I've scoured the internet in search of a solution to this. I'm sure the solution to this must be pretty simple. When I open disk defragmenter it doesn't list my C drive -- which is the primary internal HD on which the OS, windows 7 64 bit, is installed. I have another partition...

What is W7 using the 100 mb system disk for? is it for recovery files? I know w7 can now make an actual restore image can you use this partition for that? just wondering