AOMEI and Me!

[dwynnehugh]

Having a problem with AOMEI (or probably it’s me) – in a previous posting here I mentioned my uncle’s pc and a failing WD 1TB Black HDD – well in fairness to WD they replaced it with a new 2TB identical model. So now to backup his old system to the new one.

Placed the raw HDD in the PC, ran AOMEI and found the file I needed to restore to his PC from an ext HDD, however I was unable to find the new 2TB HDD at all, so I thought format it etc. etc.  and did so using my own PC and admin tools (NTFS partition – there was also a GPD? Option available too – have I picked the wrong one?) – got it to see the HDD as 2TB (as near as).

Just re-installed the 2TB in his PC and ran AOMEI again – opted for the RESTORE option from the provided menu when AOMEI had finished loading and looked at the options to locate my ‘stored backup file’ saw it on ext HDD,  but also displayed was the 2TB HDD.

Selected the options to RESTORE from and then the option to restore  to – the new HDD was not listed  there – as an option to restore to merely what appears to be partitions on the ext HDD.

Any help would be most gratefully appreciated.

PS any answers need to be given as a “Dummies book” approach please.

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[Ed P]

I do not know AOMEI so can only speak from an Acronis perspective. The only time I ran into trouble was when restoring SWMBO’s box (had to be!). This has two drives on it with the boot drive a full GPT set-up but the second data drive is not GPT (lvm disk).  I was not concentrating on what I was doing and assigned the boot partitions to the wrong drive. Total screw-up ensued. I had to kill everything then wipe both drives (I had efi boots in two places!), then repartition everything then start the restore again. Without doing that the Acronis restore got quite confused.

All this sounds very vaguely like your problem. If so, sponge everything clean, remove ALL partitions, and start again.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

I have not used AOMEI either but are you sure you actually selected the file you want to restore before you tried to restore it ? Just a thought ?

[dwynnehugh]

Graham – yes absolutely ‘yes’ – when AOMEI presents you with the options – backup / restore / clone and Utilities (?) and I select ‘restore’ it shows all drives attached to the PC – the file I need is on an external HDD named Icy Box.  When I make that selection I can also see the 2TB HDD in the window, so having selected the correct file- I select the path from which to restore and select the drive (C) to restore to – but the C option only shows up as a 1TB HDD which is the same as the ext HDD.  Just wondering if I select the C option – will I then have to make the partition to 2TB?

To be on the same side, I’ll copy the backup file to a mem stick and give that a go.  had no problems at all with the older version of AOMEI but this latest one ….  !!!!

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[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Did it work ?

[dwynnehugh]

Hi Graham,

Have now just to be 1000% certain, moved the backup file to a key stick and used that, anyway ran the restore function and got to the same place as before – sod it this time I just went with the software and after a couple of hours ended up with a C drive partitioned into two drives approx 950GB each. Ran disk management and eventually got it to one single 1.8TB partiton and using Sharkoon and my own PC I can at least see the contents on the new drive as being identical to what was on the old.

I now just need to re-install in his PC and see if it boots up.

I’ll update as soon as ….

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[dwynnehugh]

Just put the HDD back into his PC and it will not boot at all. I have fiddled with the ‘bios’  uefi only, uefi/legacy or legacy to no avail.  Disk management shows a healthy 2TB primary active partition and I can read the restored info on the hard drive but back in the PC – it fails to boot.  If I set ‘legacy’ as a priority I get the response that the boot manager is missing – press ctl alt del etc. UEFI I just get past the splash screen and generally a black screen with a horiz cursor in the top LH corner of it.

If it helps the original OS on the PC was installed simply by inserting a W7 disk, it was then updated a few years later to W10 by Ms, I backed up the HDD as it was failing, the replacement was a 2TB HDD to which I restored to after creating a 2TB single NTFS partition on it.

What am I missing or doing wrong please?

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[dwynnehugh]

Can anyone give me any pointers on this problem please – I know we’re all reeling from the GE but this IS important!! ??

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[Ed P]

Sounds EXACTLY like the problems I had with my wife’s computer. Obviously I can only guess but  it appears that a secured efi disk cannot just be recovered if somehow the boot partition gets stuffed. As said before I had to completely remove all the partitions i.e. a total disk wipe, then recover from an Acronis usb boot stick and let the full Acronis recovery run. I assume AOMEI has a similar facility.

[dwynnehugh]

Ed P – gulp! No idea may be time to have a look-see! Thanks at least for another avenue to look at.

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[Tippon]

I haven’t seen the other thread yet, but it sounds like you may have backed up one partition, rather than the whole drive. e.g. My SSD has three partitions, as in the picture below. I’m not sure if something like EasyBCD could fix that, or maybe Startup Repair from a Windows disc.

[dwynnehugh]

Hi Tippon – thanks for that. My old AOMEI disk just ‘did it’ but when I tried to use it on this mobo UEFI jobbie – it didn’t work – downloaded the latest version – bingo – backed up the C drive.

However when I try to restore to the new HDD, it does it great – just that the damn thing won’t boot. I’ve had a look at the AOMEI site and downloaded some bumf re the UEFI system, so will read it.

May be that I didn’t backup all that I should have?

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[Tippon]

As you’ve still got the backup, try running startup repair from the Windows boot disc and see if that fixes it. If it buggers it up, it’s just a case of wiping and putting the backup on again. It’s my main way of working – try something, and if it breaks, try something else ?

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