BusBiz1313 Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 Hi, I recently had a major failure w/my laptop which resulted in system recovery (& being sent in for repair) so now its back but, of course empty of ALL my programs. Question I have is I would assume I should reload ALL my programs "first" before restoring from the external hard drive (which I luckily purchased just days before the crash & had done backup). I never did a disaster recovery type back up I had only done 1 back up set & 1 duplicate w/Retrospect 6.5 (came with the western digital external drive I bought) @ the time the computer failed. PS since it came back I did try already AFTER loading programs to do a restore, but, didn't seem to figure out yet how to get it to restore from the back up set said something about catalog file & recreating etc... but, when I didn't succeed there I tried to restore the "whole" duplicate overwriting the c-drive on the computer, then it asked for the windows XP disk to be inserted, well I don't have that so I told it to cancel then something got messed up because after restarting it only had black screen w/some sentence like NTLDA missing, hit ctrl. alt. delete to restart which of course didn't work! So I made it boot from CD drive & did a full system recovery again. That's where I'm at now, & wondering if I should reload all programs first again before trying restore? Thanks for the help, Linda [color:black] [/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted October 3, 2005 Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 Hi You do not need to reinstall your programs. Rebuilt the backup set from the tools menu in Retrospect. Then do a full restore from backup. Duplicate cannot restore a bootable system. Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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