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Restoring Back Up

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by Scruff, 2010/05/08.

  1. 2010/05/08
    Scruff

    Scruff Inactive Thread Starter

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    I'm not sure if this is the right forum to start this thread so if need to apologise then this it in advance.
    I have been asked to back up (to an external hard drive) a mate's Win XP Pro system and install Win 7 Pro on it.
    I have checked the hardware compatibility and everything appeared to check out fine.
    While the back up restore process was occurring a number of files, of random types, would not restore.
    I have no idea why this happened and no idea of how to fix it.
    Any answers would be greatly appreciated.
    Cheers.
     
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    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    I'm not sure that I fully follow your post .....

    Is this the scenario? ....

    You have backed up the XP pro system - using what software and what did you back up? Data or the wholw system using imaging software?

    You are now trying to restore data to the Windows 7 install using the backup you made from the XP system.

    You can only restore data to the new installation, you cannot copy programs across.

    A lot more detail is required here.
     
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  4. 2010/05/08
    Scruff

    Scruff Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi Pete,
    Acronis 9 was used to do a full image of the drive. The problem has been solved thanks any way. The XP system was full of multiple viruses and, as it turned out, the data files that would not restore were corrupted with various viruses. We compared an original file with one that would not restore and found quite a difference in file size and that led us to compare all the problem files against the originals and each one war found to be in the same corrupt state.
    Thanks for the reply,
    Cheers,
    Graeme
     
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  5. 2010/05/09
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    You're welcome - glad to hear you worked it out :)

    I would advise you to run a full antivirus scan on thr new install - quite possible something unwanted was restored!

    Please mark this thread as 'Resolved', see .....
     
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