JGiraud Posted October 9, 2013 Report Share Posted October 9, 2013 Hi I just purchased the upgrade to Retrospect Professional 8.5. I have 5 computers running a variety of Windows 7 x64 and Windows x64. I followed the instructions to create a bare metal recovery disk after installing the Windows AIK kit and it failed saying Can't continue execution, error -1 (unknown). A few things I don't understand. Why was it creating a Windows 7 recovery disk when I'm running Windows 8? Your sales literature says that Windows 8 and 8.1 are supported. When I checked the manual, it said that GPT disks were not supported, all my Windows 8 systems have GPT disks because that is the default when Windows 8 installs onto a new disk. Could I please get a straight answer as to how this works and how to create recovery disks for Windows 8 with GPT support? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted October 9, 2013 Report Share Posted October 9, 2013 The recovery disk created by Retrospect uses a Microsoft WinPE environment that will allow you to boot most computers and perform a restore regardless of the operating system version you were running at the time of the backup. It will not matter if you are running Windows 8 or Windows 2003 server. The boot disk is the same. When exactly did you see the error -1? Does the operations log show any additional details? Which Windows AIK environment did you download? Prepare for DR disk creation directions are in this video: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky_Phil Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 Hi, I was wondering about Windows 8 disaster recovery too. Is the newly named Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows® 8 The equivalent of Windows 7 AIK? The ADK web address is here ... http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30652 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 For Retrospect DR to function, you must use the Windows AIK that we recommend in the Retrospect DR wizard. This disk image created by Retrospect will work with Windows 8 systems that need to be restored. That being said, computers with EFI motherboards are not supported with the DR CD due to the issue outlined in this article: http://retrospect.com/en/support/kb/asr-writer The other method for restore is a Live Restore 1) Install the exact version of windows you were using at the time of the backup 2) Install Retrospect 3) Perform a restore entire disk to the C: disk while booted from the C: disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Albano Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 Hi Does the new version 9 address the issue regarding EFI motherboards? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 The EFI issue is still around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Albano Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 Thanks for you reply. Any idea when it will be resolved? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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