johnwmreed Posted April 16, 2009 Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 I replaced a failed hard drive on my HP Pavilion. I reinstalled windows Vista 32 via the HP recovery disks. I installed Retrospect and did a full system restore. After Retrospect finished I rebooted my computer and I get a window that says: "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix problem: 1. insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2.Choose your language settings, and then click next. 3.Click: Repair your computer. File:\Windows\System32\winload.exe Status: 0x000000e Info: The selected entry could not be loaded becaluse the application is missing or corrupt." Does anybody have an idea what I am doing wrong? In preparing for the full Retrospect restore should I have excluded some Windows system files? Any help would be appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 What service pack did you have on your backup? What service pack did you install? What version of Retrospect? See http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=9644&p=2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnwmreed Posted April 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 My backup was made with Windows Vista 32 with SP1 My recovery reinstall was made with Windows Vista 32 with SP1 Windows Update installed 49 updates. I installed Retrospect Version 7.6.111 with Driver Update and Hotfix 7.6.1.101 I did a full system restore that follows the article you cited. I get the error window as shown in my original post. What else can I try? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnwmreed Posted April 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 I am very disappointed that I am unable to perform a full restore of my operating system and files. I have been faithfully backing up my computer every night in case of a disaster. It happened, my hard drive failed and Retrospect is unable to perform a full restore to my new drive. At least I was able to get my data files, but it is a big job reinstalling all my programs and reestablishing the preferences. :taptap: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyslin Posted October 31, 2009 Report Share Posted October 31, 2009 I've also recently experienced the same with my first time I've ever had to restore a Vista system from scratch. I'm using Retrospect 7.6.123 on Vista 64 SP1. I was able to get it to boot by using the recovery disks, and doing a "repair". However, a number of services and apps fail when starting. I've done a full restore before on XP, and was looking forward to a no-problem experience on Vista, but I guess that isn't to be. One thing is that I'm restoring over the top of a vendor's "factory image" since I don't have an option to install a bare-bones Vista. It has a copy of Norton IS on it, though I thought it was inactive. But the next time (once I get the new drive... this was a bit of a test drive) I'll try removing that first. Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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