Malcolm McLeary Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 Hi Guys, I have a working W2K system which needs a bigger disk. No problem ... I'll just make a full backup, do a Disaster Recovery CD, drop in the new disk and do a restore. Should be simple ... its not happening! The backup went ok, the DR CD appears to work fine, the restore comes up with an error that there wasn't a removeable storage manager to restore, but otherwise completes. When I restart the machine, it prompts for a password and then complains that my system does not have a paging file, or the paging file is too small. After dismissing the dialog I get the password screen again ... hence I can't get back in. I tried using a W2K install CD to "repair" the situation, but it complains that there isn't anywhere to put a page file. The W2K installer on the DR CD does not have any problems doing its thing. I've come to the conclusion that there is something wrong with the backupset I'm trying to restore. Currently I've put the original disk back so the machine is operational, but it concerns me that I'd be stuffed if I was doing a real Disaster Recovery. The machine was running Retrospect 5.6.127. I have an identical machine off site running Retrospect 6.0 so I've tried doing a live restore over a fresh W2K install, but get the same results. Any suggestions as to what went wrong and if the backupset can be restored successfully? Cheers, Malcolm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 We have seen this problem before, especially if you have swapped out hardware. Two knowledgebase records are worth reviewing: http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=kbase&ACTION=KBASE&id=27671 http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=kbase&ACTION=KBASE&id=27794 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm McLeary Posted August 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2003 Neither work. Much less stress to simply accept that its Windows and not meant to be easy. I guess its a good opportunity to rebuild the system and reinstall all the apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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