Peter012908 Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Using win xp sp2, Backed up Jan.6 from c: on laptop to maxtor usb external drive f:. When I finished backing up Jan.6, I actually saw the "c: drive" offering on that restore selection screen as i wanted to make sure backup was successful. HP Lapout went to HP for service a week afterwards (motherboard was replaced). Laptop works fine now. Re-installed restospect 1.0 and 1.1 and maxtor one touch II. Attempting a restore to Jan. 6. On restore screen, the only applicable possibilties that show up are (hp recovery E:) and (maxor4laptop F:) How can I get the c: drive to re-appear on the restore selection screen? Thanks for helping me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 If you see restore points for E and F but not C, then you may not have backed up the C drive on those days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter012908 Posted January 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Thanks for your reply. As sure as I'm sitting here typing toyou, I saw the c: offering. I haven't tried to delete the .rbc file yet and have it re-bulit. When re-building this .rbc, will other "older" restore points (technically not needed here, but are being kept as an iron reserve) become useless? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter012908 Posted January 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 The re-build didn't change anything. What puzzles me most is, when viewing the files on the usb maxtor, there are lots of them dated Jan.6, with .rbd extensions (I think, I'm not at home right now). I feel confident in my recollection that c: appeared back on Jan. 6. I wouldn't have left matters as complete then if I saw HP recovery e: drive on the restore selection screen. That is a drive that is not accessible from the operating system. c: is the main hard drive. d:is the dvd burner. E: is the hp recovery drive. F: was the maxtor. After return of laptop, maxtor is e: Puzzling. I feel the information is on the maxtor. Any other way to squeeze it out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter012908 Posted February 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Going back to my first post. This doesn't want to leave me alone.... How could Retrospect 1.1 backup a (hidden and unaccessible to Win XP or DOS) partition to the external usb maxtor drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Express HD should be able to see any disk with a drive letter. I am not sure why the C drive would not display in the HD version. You may want to download a trial for Retrospect 7.5 Pro and attempt your restore with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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