If I can’t get this backup restored, my only option will be to install Windows 10 from scratch. The first attempt to restore the backup took care of that avenue, so I have no Windows volume to try block-based imaging with. Unfortunately, the Win 10 install is gone. If we find a solution, it could help others with the same question. I’ve been responding here so others can see the conversation. The restore before that is the one that did finally finish, but didn’t produce a bootable partition. That’s what the last log entries will be, showing the aborted restore. As before, it was restoring extremely slowly, so I stopped it about 5 minutes in. Then I put it back the way the drive was (three partitions) and restored the two Mac partitions. That forces Disk Utility to write an entirely new EFI table.
#Winclone 5 version full
So, with backups of all three partitions on hand, I erased all of the partitions, which then allowed me to do a full wipe and apply a single partition to the entire drive. Trying to remove the top-most HFS+ partition would keep generating an error in Disk Utility that the action couldn’t be performed. Thinking the failed Win 10 updates may have really screwed up the drive, I repartitioned it entirely. Got a DOS message that the drive was not bootable and to insert a disk in a floppy drive to try again. The files were there and it was NTFS, so I tried booting to the drive. Instead of “Windows 10” as the drive name, it stayed at “Untitled”. When the restore finally finished, I checked the drive, and it hadn’t taken on the name of the Windows image, as it normally does. You may notice an aborted restore, besides the one that was taking forever. I’ve sent a support request through Winclone 6, and clicked the box to include the logs. This restore has been going for almost 5 hours now, and it still isn’t done! It is going, but at the pace of a snail trying to go up a mountain coated with Teflon. In the past, the entire restore typically only took about 25 minutes. In other words, not much data to restore. This is not a large partition (100GB) and the Windows image is pretty much just Windows 10 with the Acrobat Reader and few other small apps added to it. Started the restore again, and yay!, it actually started restoring my backup.īad news. Part of which included a fix for restore errors.
#Winclone 5 version update
Today, I had time to try and tackle the issue again and got out my Win 7 Home Premium DVD and booted to that so I could use Windows itself to quick erase the partition as NTFS to try and get past this error.Īfter that short step, I launched Winclone and was told there was an update to 6.0.4. This had always worked in the past, but now it wouldn’t. I tried reformatting the partition as MS-DOS (FAT32) as I’ve done numerous times in the past to either erase an existing partition I was using for my Windows install, or simply creating a new partition on another drive. Kept throwing out some odd message (didn’t save a screen shot) about not being able to restore to the partition. I figured, big deal, I’ll just restore my backup. Part way through, it froze and Windows became unbootable. I had an issue updating Windows 10 about a month ago.
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