Recovery using a disk image

[howardp6]

Hello,
I periodically create a disk image of a RAID 1 Volume consisting of two 500 GB SATA drive containing my Windows 7 system and data, and a RAID 0 Volume consisting of of three 320 GB SATA drives containing my Windows Vista. I tried to do a recovery from the disk image, but my VISTA volume does not restore. Is there anyway to restore both volumes? The recovery indicates the both volumes are to be restored, both only the Windows 7 volume is restored.

 

[Chainzsaw]

Let me get this straight. You use Windows 7, as well as Vista? So you dual boot?

What you might have to do is, install one OS, then install the other OS, i forgot which order you have to do it (i think the older OS first, you can search online though). So you would recover the data for Windows 7 while in Windows 7. Then you would have to boot back to Vista to restore the Vista data. AFAIK thats why your recovery for Vista isn't going.

Also what image program are you using to do this? That would help a lot to know.

I could be wrong - anyone with more knowledge chime in.

 

[shanky887614]

you can open the disk image and extract just the data you want,

i do this all the time with my disk images

if your imaging software dosnt support it then there are many free views that will

 

[howardp6]

I am using the system image from Windows 7 and the recovery disk from the Windows 7 partition, which includes the image of both volumes.

 

[howardp6]

you can open the disk image and extract just the data you want,

i do this all the time with my disk images

if your imaging software dosnt support it then there are many free views that will

I am mounting the VHD image of my volume using disk management and extracting all the files to original volume, if that is what you meant.

 

[howardp6]

Best answer selected by howardp6.

 

[shanky887614]

exactly, mounting it is an easy thing to do

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

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