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Cannot restore from WindowsImageBackup from anywhere
Hi,
I recently had a problem with the genuine-ness of my windows which was the licence database got corrupted. As I am using keys from my Technet subscription, and since Microsoft reduced the keys from 10 to 2, I wanted to create a new image of the PC in case the problem recurred.
So I ran the system image backup and saved it to my server. Then booting from windows DVD, and from my receovery disk, I could not get to the image, no matter what I tried. I tried IP address, paths etc.
I followed Shawn's excellent tutorial here ; System Image Recovery
But still no go. So I copied the image to my WD "My Passport" USB drive, but the Windows DVD and recovery disk could not see the drive. AFAIK there are no drivers for this device, just what windows supports natively.
So I then tried to create a system image to DVD (Dual layer), since the images was 31gb. (My OS and apps are on a SSD and I wanted to image everything). After 4 disks, all I had was four copies of disk 1. The backup was restarting with each new DVD.
So I tried Easeus; Not so easy. It has problems with network support, and many other shortcomings and I couldn't get that to work either. I considered Macrium, but there are not many favourable reviews of that product, so I didn't take chances with it.
I could create the backup to my spinner, but I don't want to leave the image on that drive in case it fails with the rest of the system; I'd much rather have the image on a remote [non-cloud] drive somewhere.
So if I create an image, I can't recover from it because no restore can access the image (such as codes 0x800704cf), and I can't seem to back up to DVD..
Can anyone please help
thanks
Tanya