Windows 7 Resore system image from network storage drive

[steverino]

Hello - I have a HP Pavilion with Windows 7 Premium 64, and have my computer back up daily, with weekly system image back ups using the Windows back up utility. This backs up to a DLink DNS 323 network storage device. Last Friday my hard drive failed, and I didn't feel too bad becuase of my back ups. Yesterday after replacing the hard drive I tried using the System Repair Disc to restore the System Image, but couldn't locate anything on the network to restore. I checked with DLink support and they said this is a Windows issue. Hoping I can get some ideas how to proceed and get my data on the new hard drive.

THe DLink site suggested that I try everything out before I need it to make sure it all works as planned. I would have no idea how to try out the System Repair Disc and restore the System Image without having a blank hard drive or jeopardizing the data on my current drive. Any suggestions on that would also be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[chrisweetman]

not sure if you have resolved this issue, but something I notice is that the networking functions are not switched on on the repair disk (which is useful)...what i do is boot off the repair disk, open the command line and type wpeinit and this will then allow your net use commands to complete properly...dont forget the basic networking commands like ipconfig /all to ensure that your interface has an IP address etc.

I find that once the wpeinit command has been run then all works fine and i dont need to move the backup folder.