Factory Restore

NiftyDigits

If you are going to give up, then what are you going to do next?

kwikbreaks

If the windows recovery disk you created isn't bootable then I really don't have a clue what it may be.

Given you don't feel confident extracting just the corrupt file and restoring that to the correct place then maybe you should simply restore the entire disk (probably 2 partitions) and master boot record is how Acronis will describe this. That really isn't overly technical and should at least give you a working machine albeit with some recent data loss.

badger09

kwikbreaks wrote: »

If the windows recovery disk you created isn't bootable then I really don't have a clue what it may be.

Given you don't feel confident extracting just the corrupt file and restoring that to the correct place then maybe you should simply restore the entire disk (probably 2 partitions) and master boot record is how Acronis will describe this. That really isn't overly technical and should at least give you a working machine albeit with some recent data loss.

I know I probably sound as thick as a very thick person, but what I don't understand is how I get the entire disk copy from my external hard drive onto the unresponsive PC.

I can boot PC from Acronis original bootable disk - but all my backup stuff is on the external HD.

badger09

NiftyDigits wrote: »

If you are going to give up, then what are you going to do next?

Open a bottle of wine before wine oc'clock:eek: and start looking for a new PC:p

NiftyDigits

badger09 wrote: »

Open a bottle of wine before wine oc'clock:eek: and start looking for a new PC:p

Probably you plug the external HDD in, boot up with the Acronis Disc and choose the option to apply the back up from the external HDD to the PC's HDD,

Alternatively, you can just run a repair or clean install of Windows XP and use Acronis to retrieve just the parts of the backup that are useful to you.

closed

you've gone to the trouble of doing a backup, you may as well use it

There are various ways of curing this without resorting to a new machine, or doing a factory restore, or restoring the whole system from backup

on your working machine, install acronis

attach the usb hard disk to this machine

browse to the .tib file, which is your acronis backup, and double click on it, this should mount the image file and enable you to see all the files in the backup

then you can extract individual files from it

extract the one file mentioned and copy it to the root of the external drive.

then

all you have to do it attach that usb drive to the other machine, boot from the rescue cd, and copy the one file called system over the top of the corrupt one, then reboot the machine

should take no more than 10 minutes.

or boot from the acronis cd, and restore that one file from backup

badger09

closed wrote: »

There are various ways of curing this without resorting to a new machine, or doing a factory restore, or restoring the whole system from backup

on your working machine, install acronis

attach the usb hard disk to this machine

browse to the .tib file, which is your acronis backup, and double click on it, this should mount the image file and enable you to see all the files in the backup

then you can extract individual files from it

extract the one file mentioned and copy it to the root of the external drive.

then

all you have to do it attach that usb drive to the other machine, boot from the rescue cd, and copy the one file called system over the top of the corrupt one, then reboot the machine

should take no more than 10 minutes.

or boot from the acronis cd, and restore that one file from backup

Thanks for translating. I think I've got it now

Acronis license says only 1 machine. Is there any impact if I install on 2nd?

closed

depends whether it checks the serial no via the net, which version is it.

http://kb.acronis.com/content/10645

boot from the cd on the broken machine instead, no install required

badger09

Its True Image 10.0 Home

closed

attach usb drive to broken machine

boot from acronis cd on broken machine

select acronis full version

click recovery, a recovery wizard should start

next

browse to the tib file on the external drive

and restore that one file called system in the directory were it is/was.

ie \Windows\System 32\Config

which should overwrite the \Windows\System 32\Config\system file, which is your corrupt profile

when finished exit acronis, shutdown, remove cd, and reboot