Latest Acronis True Image 12 :banana::banana::banana::banana:ed up my bootloader

[jcool]

Hey guys,

I am having trouble getting back what the latest version of stupid Acronis True Image 2009 (aka v. 12) took from me.

Here's the details: Got a 300GB Velociraptor divided into 2 equal partitions (~140GB). Server 08 on one, WIn XP x64 on the other. The Vista/Server 08 bootloader was controlling things and both OSes booted up fine.

Yesterday I wanted to clone my Server 08 partition onto a new SSD I got. For some stupid reason this doesn't work directly, you can only clone entire disks with True Image, not partitions. You can, however, backup a partition along with its MBR and then restore it (to another disk), which is what I did. I restored the backup to the SSD, rebooted, and tried.

It said winload.exe was missing or something, so it didn't work.
But then, when i tried top boot of my HDD.. SAME ISSUE :mad:
Somehow it killed the bootloader on my source disk as well :shakes:

I have been trying for 5h already to fix this stupid issue, but to no avail. The auto startup repair function claims to have repaired the same issue over and over again (no system partition found or sth) but it doesn't work.

I typed bootrec.exe /fixmbr in the console, also without visible effect.

With XP I would have just gone into recovery console and ran chkdsk along with fixboot/fixmbr, and that would have been the end of it. Maybe I should go back to XP :rolleyes:

Any ideas? Thanks.

[enteon]

did you try "fixboot", too?

if that doesn't work I bet acronis killed part of your OS (partition resizing?) and you will have to back up your files if the filesystem is still readable (most of it should be) and reinstall your favorite version of wind'ohs :rolleyes:

PS: if you find out how, you could also try to recreate your whole bootloader, may be faster than reinstalling ^^

PPS: I cooked Dave :flame:

[Oberon]

I had the same problem recently and was able to fix it by rebuilding the BCD store.

Instructions here (http://computerhelpandsupport.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/fix-windows-boot-configuration-data-file-is-missing-error).

(Instructions are for Vista, but should work for Server 2008, as well, I think).

[ReverendMaynard]

learn how to use FOG under linux. Best imaging solution on the planet.

[jcool]

Thanks guys,

didn't really work.. and after 8 hours I was tired of trying. Acronis did a real number on my system, it even destroyed the win98 bootability of the USB stick....

Anyway, my OS was almost 2 yrs old and has seen at least 5 platform changes, so I reinstalled it on a new SSD, then copied the whole Program Files x86, ProgramData, Users etc folders over and 95% of the programs still work with the old settings, just MS office wouldn't but that's no real surprise. Got my emails restored as well, just some cleaning up left to do.

After all this mess this may have been the best solution, as my OS speed is now like 5x faster. I can't even see the Windooze loading bar, lol. In part due to the SSD but mostly because the old install was too beaten up anyways.

[topdog5050]

thanks for the ifo on the bcd buddy!

[Anemic]

I have used Acronics Home erlier version serveral times but never had any problems with it. Might have to stay away from v.12 then?
I'm glad you worked it all out tho, such a pain to have to reinstall everything...Thats why I really like image software ; )
Have you tried out the Image program in W7? Alot of people says it very good.

[jcool]

I have used Acronics Home erlier version serveral times but never had any problems with it. Might have to stay away from v.12 then?
I'm glad you worked it all out tho, such a pain to have to reinstall everything...Thats why I really like image software ; )
Have you tried out the Image program in W7? Alot of people says it very good.

Yeah stay with v.11 that's what I should have done too...
Tried the Win7 RC 7100 on the SSD, but took ages to install and it was way slower than my optimized Vista (on the same SSD) so I kinda dumped it.