_Diego_
February 12th, 2014, 12:57 PM
Hi,
I've done a system image with Macrium Reflect Free v5 (updated) on a dual boot system with Mint Petra 64 bit and Seven x64 Ultimate installed on the same device (obviouslly different partitions :P). My configuration has an initial hidden recovery primary partition, a primary boot partition (ext3) of 500 mb, a primary ntfs partition for windows 7 and an extended logical partition on which I've put a ntfs data partition, an ext4 partition for linux Mint and a final swap area. The system configured in this way has no problems.
I 've done the system image only for the boot, the seven and the mint partitions.
When I try to restore it on a second machine (which is exactly as the original one, ie same manifacturer, same model, same devices on it, et cetera...) using either Linux Rescue CD (mounted with unetbootin on a USB Device) or Win PE Rescue CD (mounted with unetbootin on another USB flash Device) the process ends normally but when i reboot the system it fails even to show grub menu.
On the Macrium WIN PE Rescue CD there is an option to resolve boot problems (there isn't a similar one on the macrium linux rescue cd). If I run this option it detects only Seven OS (as it is a windows enviroment) and tries to restore MBR and so on, but the problem isn't solved. This way, running a live USB GParted shows the partitions correctly.
If I run a live session of Linux Mint Petra on a USB Flash Device, after having done a Linux restore GParted shows my entire HDD device as unallocated, but I can enter in all the partitions that are correctly been restored by Macriu,m. I can see all the files restored and even open and modify them.
I've also tried to use Boot-Repair with the common restore options from the live session. It replaces the Grub in the Boot partition and afetr rebooting I can see the grub menu (I can see only Linux OS and no windows), BUT IF I MAKE THE CHOICE TO BOOT PETRA IT DOESN'T LOAD.
This is the report created by Boot-Repair.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6919496/
Please someone help me!
I've done a system image with Macrium Reflect Free v5 (updated) on a dual boot system with Mint Petra 64 bit and Seven x64 Ultimate installed on the same device (obviouslly different partitions :P). My configuration has an initial hidden recovery primary partition, a primary boot partition (ext3) of 500 mb, a primary ntfs partition for windows 7 and an extended logical partition on which I've put a ntfs data partition, an ext4 partition for linux Mint and a final swap area. The system configured in this way has no problems.
I 've done the system image only for the boot, the seven and the mint partitions.
When I try to restore it on a second machine (which is exactly as the original one, ie same manifacturer, same model, same devices on it, et cetera...) using either Linux Rescue CD (mounted with unetbootin on a USB Device) or Win PE Rescue CD (mounted with unetbootin on another USB flash Device) the process ends normally but when i reboot the system it fails even to show grub menu.
On the Macrium WIN PE Rescue CD there is an option to resolve boot problems (there isn't a similar one on the macrium linux rescue cd). If I run this option it detects only Seven OS (as it is a windows enviroment) and tries to restore MBR and so on, but the problem isn't solved. This way, running a live USB GParted shows the partitions correctly.
If I run a live session of Linux Mint Petra on a USB Flash Device, after having done a Linux restore GParted shows my entire HDD device as unallocated, but I can enter in all the partitions that are correctly been restored by Macriu,m. I can see all the files restored and even open and modify them.
I've also tried to use Boot-Repair with the common restore options from the live session. It replaces the Grub in the Boot partition and afetr rebooting I can see the grub menu (I can see only Linux OS and no windows), BUT IF I MAKE THE CHOICE TO BOOT PETRA IT DOESN'T LOAD.
This is the report created by Boot-Repair.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6919496/
Please someone help me!