Full System Recovery from USB media
I want to do a Full Sytem recovery from USB media on a laptop (DELL Latitude E4200)
I formated my Bootable USB stick with HP USB DISK Format Tool and I followed the explanations found in the knowledge base article N° 35014 (HotFix 16).
Then I booted on this USB drive and launched Altiris Recovery. I got this error :
Full System recovery detects that amount of space on your hard drive(s) is smaller that it was orifinally. So Full System recovery is unable to recover all your volume(s)....
I think that i have this error because this tool uses system files from Windows 98 startup-disks and when I boot on the USB stick, the drive of my USB stick is: C: insteed of A:
I have done the test with another tool which copies manually DOS bootsector (BART's mkbt) but then, the size of my partition is 1,44M and I can't put mini OS source files.
Has somebody already done a FULL System Recovery form USB media ? which tool was used to create a bootable usb disk ?
Thanks for any help
Annie
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Annie, Are there any
Annie,
Are there any BIOS options concerning bootable USB media? Maybe something about "emulation mode" or something?
You might be able to use the "No Format" option; basically you will need to format the new drive as FAT32 before booting (from WinPE or a DOS-like boot USB key). While FSR is loading, you hold down CTRL key and you'll get an option to "Proceed with no-format option" (sorry I haven't done this for years so I don't recall the exact wording of the message). See the RS 6.2 SP3 Reference Guide on Page 145.
One last option (which is usually used here by our Deskside support staff) is to not do FSR at all. Rebuild the machine using your normal imaging process (ideally with same Windows Service Pack as the backup), then reinstall Recovery to the original computer's account. Next, do a Rollback restore with "Enable rollback file deletion". It is explained in AKB 24874 and AKB 17775.
Thanks,
Kyle
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I didn't find any option
I didn't find any option concerning bootable USB media.
The last option you proposed is a good idea. I will try it.
Thanks
Annie
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