Re: [Bacula-devel] bare metal restore for windows

[Luca B. <bl...@co...>]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:26:54AM +1100, James Harper wrote:
>> > The whole idea of a 'one button restore' scares me just as much as
>> > typing 'rm -rf *'...
>> >
>> > I'm just testing a restore of an XP system using my Linux Rescue CD
>> > (nothing more than dfsbuild with bacula-fd and ntfs-3g loaded on
>it). I

>Everything appears to be there, but it won't boot. Fixboot and fixmbr
>have both been run from the Windows Recovery Console and it still won't
>work. I have even tried a repair (basically an install that updates all
>the files but leaves the config).
>
>The thing is that it hangs immediately after the MBR executes, so I
>think that the fact that I partitioned it under Linux broke it.

i believe the issue is due to a change of partition table geometry.
windows is very sensitive to geometry issues.
it would be nice if we could force linux calculate disk geometry the
samw way windows does (I.E. by blindly believing what BIOS says)

>What I'm going to try next is to install windows, make sure it boots,
>then wipe all the files, then try a restore from Linux. This will at
>least confirm that a restore of a windows system from Linux actually
>works...

it could work.
L.



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