Re: Total Data Loss + System Recovery Error on Vista X64

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Hi Harravaril.42302ab--

You typed:

"I use a Core2Quad with 2 SATA drives on RAID 0 and Vista X64. I have the windows
installation CD."

We both know that the Core2Quad system that you have elected to load Vista X64 onto isn't an X86 system since you exercised your option to put a Vista X64 on it, so I'm not sure why you're getting that error message.

You didn't tell us why/how/what you're seeing that caused you to "lose all your data" due to the "Raid problem." Is this data on a separate partition? Is this data loss due to some crash of the OS? Was any stop error involved? What have you tried to do to fix this not very well defined event that lost data wherever it lost data from? I'm not giving you a tough time--I want to get you back to fixed, but I don't have all the information about your adverse event.

The Vista DVD gives you more options to fix. Make sure your bios is set to boot from the DVD>restart:

You can boot from the DVDand use Startup Repair, or you could use what I often find helpful, thebootrec switches by using the command prompt from the Repair link on the Vista setup screen:

http://owened.co.nz/Owenedv2/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/click-repair-your-computer.png

http://www.setup32.com/resource-guides/images/repair_vista_03.jpg

If Startup Repair's repair mechanism doesn't work, then go back to its
"Recovery Options menu" and select command prompt and try the bootrec
switches.

The menu I refer to is in this set of directions with a grey background.

http://vistahomepremium.windowsreinstall.com/repairstartup/repairstartup.htm

Those are:

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuild BCD

In Windows 7, you won't need the DVD to use these repair options, at long
long last, but that doesn't help you here with Vista.

In my testing of the Win RE environment, System Restore from the Recovery
link on your DVD is also a viable option. Sometimes it works when System
Restore from Windows , and system restore from F8's options don't work so I
urge you to try it.

If you can't obtain a Vista DVD, then here's what I'd do.

One of the safe modes is Safe Mode with Command, so I'm going to supply you
with the command to use from the command prompt for that particular
category.

If you get into any of the other safe modes (4 from F8) and one from Startup
Repair via the Recovery Link from the Vista DVD, you have many ways to hit
system restore, but typing restrui into the run box or restore into the
search box above the start button will work

So you have these to try:

From the Win RE Recovery link on your DVD:

System Restore

From F8 System Restore via:

Safe Mode
Safe Mode with Networking
Safe Mode VGA
Safe Mode with Command: At the prompt you would type the command to use for
system restore at the safe mode cmd prompt is:

%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

There is an additional tool that might help you in the Win RE panoply of
tools. Its use is outlined here in this MSKB and that's bootrec.exe:

How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to
troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-us

I would urge everyone, in the interest of having the maximum ability to
repair Vista, to follow the directions that are linked here from the Win RE
team's blog to load Win RE onto their hard drive, analagous to the way some
of you loaded the Recovery Console onto your hard drive for use in Windows
XP:

http://blogs.msdn.com/winre/archive/2007/01/12/how-to-install-winre-on-the-hard-disk.aspx


Good luck and let us know if any of these or other suggestions help.

CH







Hello, I am faced with a real big problem. Recently I've lost all my
data due to a RAID problem and had to use a full system image backup I
was able to make before the crash. Here's the catch: I use a Core2Quad
with 2 SATA drives on RAID 0 and Vista X64. I have the windows
installation CD. Since my backup is on a USB HDD I plug it in, windows
system restore finds the backup image. However, when it should start to
copy the files a error message appears saying I can't restore my backup
because it was made on a X64 system and my computer is a X86 system.
How come? Has my processor mutated or what? I really coulnd't find a
way to bypass this and start the backup. Please, any suggestions would
be greatly welcomed.




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Harravaril

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