MCTS 70-680: Windows7 Bare Metal Restore using a system image
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- This video looks at restoring your Windows 7 using a system image saved to the network using Windows Backup and Restore. Check out / itfreetraining or itfreetraining.com for more of our always free training videos. In this case, the original image is taken from a Hyper-V virtual machine and then restored to a VMware virtual machine. Both virtual machines have different hardware and the restore is a Bare Metal Restore to different hardware.
Demonstration 01:45
To be able to recover Windows 7 using Backup and Restore, you need to ensure that the backup you performed had a system image included or you manually created a system image. A system image will save all the file and folders on the hard disk to a VHD file. Backup and Restore also supports a file and folder style backup. Because of this, the system image could be used to recover your operating system. If there were changes made to the user documents file since the system image was performed and the File and Folder style backup was run, this backup can be used to restore the user files while the system image can be used to restore the operating system. This video will look at using both to restore the operating system. It should be pointed out however, if your system image backup is up to date, this is the only backup that you need to use to restore the system.
Demo
Backups in Windows 7 are done using the Backup and Restore utility. This can be found in the control panel under "system and security." A system image backup can be included in a backup or can be performed manually by selecting the option on the left hand side, "create a system image backup."
In this video, a system image is saved to the network. When saving a system image to the network, the one image file can only support one backup instance. This is because this feature required some features of NTFS that are not supported when connecting to a network share. In other words, incremental changes to the system image are not recorded. A system image performed over the network will only contain the one system image with the files from the last time it was run. If you were to the save the system image on a drive that had NTFS, a history of system images would be present with the number of revisions depending on how much space the hard disk had.
To restore the operating system on another computer with different hardware, you need software to boot the computer. In Backup and Restore you can create a system repair disc. If you have the original Windows 7 DVD, you can use that to boot and select the option "repair your computer" on the welcome screen.
Regardless of whether you use the repair disc or the Windows 7 disc, select the option from the system recovery options to restore your computer using a system image that you created earlier. Once you browse to the system image, it will be used to recover your computer.
Once the system image has been copied to the new computer, you can also restore additional user documents that have been backed up using the file and folder backup. If Backup and Restore can't restore particular files because they are in use, logout and login as another user and perform the restore using that user.
Glad you like the video. In answer to your question
1) You need to map a drive to the location that is holding the backup. You can than select this backup and restore from it.
2) The easiest way to do this is to perform the restore. Once the restore is done, shrink the partition using disk manager to free up some disk space. Once this is done you will be able to create a new partition.
What password I should put?
You could try, depending on different the hardware is you may have some issues. Particularly with laptops this can cause problems due to them coming so much extra software supplied by the manufacturer. I would personally look at what customization you can perform with Group Policy to meet you needs. This allows changes later and does not mean you need to configure the operating system. Once you have one machine type running, consider using an image base software solution. There are free ones.
Whats the password for windows security? To re image?
The repair disc is used to boot the computer to access the system image. You could also use a Windows PE disc or even the original Windows 7 disc to this. If you can access the system image from inside Windows and apply it than you don't need anything.
No problem at all. Thanks for watching.
You can use backup and restore to backup to an external harddisk. Depending on the operating system, backup and restore may require a dedicated hard disk for the backup which needs to be as large or larger than the drive you are backing up. Newer OS can backup to any harddisk that has room to hold the backup files. Once your restore it to the new system, Windows plug and play should with any luck reinstall the drivers.
@pacholik Thanks. Glad to hear that you like are videos.
Excellent video, so simple and well explained. I'm putting a new SSD in my computer and I'll use this to make a system image and then restore.
Thanks John- Glad you found the video useful.
itfreetraining As it turns out your procedure was perfect however it didn't work for my situation. I was restoring a 60GB image to a 240GB SSD drive and it just wouldn't work - was churning out errors each time. My previous drive was 1TB and new SSD was 240GB. Turns out Windows restore does not allow you to restore an image created on a bigger drive to a smaller one even if it will fit comfortably in the same space. Pure stupid coding. I ended up using Acronis Backup off a Linux disk.
***** That is correct, Windows will only allow you to restore on a drive the same size or larger. It is very frustrating limitation. I am glad to hear that you found another solution. Since this video is part of a course we have to cover this information, however will look in releasing some videos on alternative methods to over come some of these limitations.
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I think if you partition your drive and restore only the partition with your stuff on it, not the free space, it works. Not that you need it now.
How are you doing the restore? Backup and Restore? ImageX? Also are using Windows PE or a recovery disk? Is this 32bit or 64bit? Are you getting and error message? I think the problem may be that you need to use the wrong disc to do the restore.
When you perform a bare metal install it removes that Hal and re detects the hardware. After the install you may need to install graphics drivers or other driver to enable features like Aero peek. It is not designed to be a complete restore like imaging. Normally we record the demos using Remote Desktop, however in some cases we have to use a direct capture. So some of the demo was recorded in remote desktop which does not support Aero Peek and some was direct capture which does.
@Luka gamer It will be the password that you assigned to the computer. If you did not assign a password it will be blank.
Excellent video. I have created a system image on an external hard drive, but I was unsure on how to properly restore it on my new internal hard drive. Your video is very easy to understand. Thanks.
Thanks very much and thanks for watching.
If you can not be the operating system you need something to boot off. This can be a recovery DVD or the originally setup DVD provided to install Windows 7.
Thank you for replying! :) yes, i am building a new pc from scratch. It just that i dont want to spend another couple of hundreds for the same OS.
I assume that your ubuntu install is on a separate partition from Windows. This is fine, imagex won't effect the other partition. The only problem that you may have is the boot loader may get over written and will need to be fixed in order to boot of both operating system. In other words, Ubuntu make stop appearing to the menu selection screen when the computer boots.
Glad you like the video.
Yes you will. Bare metal recovery everything expect the device drivers. The device drivers are re detected and reinstalled.
You could do this. There are also image software that you can use that will do the same thing. However, if you do use these you should run sysrep after you reimage the computer.
It sounds like Windows PE does not have a network driver for the network card that you are using. You can add the network driver to the Windows PE image, or install a network card that it supports.
When your configure a backup schedule you have the option to include a system image with the backup. For this reason the system and the backup files time and date should be pretty close. I would suggest recreating the backup schedule and checking all the options. Sounds like something was not set correctly or a manual system image has been run.
Best video ever on Backup and restore & Previous versions (also called shadow copy).....keep up d good work guys!! You deserve an Oscar or an MVP for your presentation.
If you create a custom boot image in WDS, you should be able to have it booting into Windows PE.
What is the password?
Can you ping the server? It may be resolving problem. try \\ipaddress\share If it is promoting you for a username and password the connection is working.
Thank you so much. It gives me more idea about Back Up and Restore :)
How about if i don't have a back up from system image
These videos are great. So much great information. Thank you
Hello! I have 2 servers 2012. on DC1 I run the backup everyday, so everyday it updates the same file with the new files. When I try to restore in the DC2, it says that it doesn't have any backup. How can I solve this? I'm afraid that if my server fails, I won't be able to recover the data from another server. Thanks
You guys should do this professionally, I would pay for such video tutorials in a hart beat, you are light years better then nuggets, and those other train thing.
Thank you! We're glad you found the video helpful.
Thanks very much.
Thanks for the reply. It's puzzling because it's the first time I've ever run a backup on this system, and the external HDD was completely formatted. No manual system image was initiated. I chose the 'Let Windows Choose' option, which is where the system image comes from. The date and time of the 'Backup of C' folder corresponds exactly with a Windows system update. Very puzzling. Think I'll format the HDD again and set up a fresh backup. Thanks again for the help and videos :-)
8:05 search for image doesn't work at all for me, it's asking me to specify location instead
Same
Same
Thanks for the video. Very good.
Why do you need the system repair disc and the system image? You can just use the system image file to restore the computer, right?
Very in depth video. I have a slightly different backup, my backup was done in Windows 7 64bit to an external USB hard disc drive, it is a VHD. I can not get restore to see this image. I can however go in and mount the VHD, using disc management, to browse the files. How can I get Windows to use the Windows backup that I created to do a full restore?
6:47 - gives me an error saying that the version I have as system repair is different than the system on the HD, which is not true. And it doesn't go to the system recovery options.
I would check with the documentation of your computer, it may have a different way of doing it. Some computers have there own custom restoring software.
It is possible, but I would always recommend rebuilding the system from scratch.
Great video, quick question: can the WindowsPE/repair disk be deployed through WDS/PXE, and the backup images made available as deployment images within WDS?
Great video explained alot but I don't have a network drive setup can I use an external hdd in leu of your method for a full bear restore?? I'm switching to a new M/B ram and processor in the past I've just backed up and reinstalled windows and with the ssd it won't take long but trying to shorten that time
Hi There,
good video for every one, i have 2 question. 1. when i try to restore my image backup from network, how my new hardware find the network ? we have not any DHCP option. 2. when i try to restore the image to a new hardware the image backup use my complete HDD, how i create volume to create partition ?
When i enter \\dc1\bavkups in network location it says The specified network location cannot be used.
Why please help!
This was a share that we setup on the server. It is not a default share. You will need to create your own share.
What if you have multiple drives and don't want Windows to format the wrong drive?
I am unable to connect to my share. The share resides on a server on the domain with the firewall disaled. I type in the \\server\\share and have tried both the local and domain passwords to no avail. I get an error that the network location cannot be found. I'm trying to streamline images for our company. If I have to load a driver every time or perform some other task every time we need to do this I am better off copying the image to a usb drive and doing it that way...
Thanks for the video! learnt allot, I have one question though. if i have two os on the same hdd (dual-boot of ubuntu and win7) and I want to recover my win 7 partitions with a system image, will the whole hdd be reformatted removing my ubuntu partition? is it possible for me to do this task, leaving some partitions alone? Thanks again for the great video!
How do I connect to a network via Wifi? only can be via Lan? by cable? can I create the network on another computer and try to access from the broken computer?
When i restore the other computer with system image . will i get the same users as my old computer having .
My hard drive failed on me but I made a system image on my external hard drive how do I put all my files from the system image to my new hard drive?
Hello! I have a question. If im building a new computer, is it possible to transfer my OS to the new computer using system image recovery and backup?
Unfortunately this is how Windows Backup and Restore works. It requires the destination to be as big or bigger than the original drive. So if you original image drive was 150GB and the new drive is 500GB this it will work. If you image file is 150gb big but is from a 500GB hard disk you will need a 500GBb hard disk.
Great videos! Thanks so much. One question - I set up a backup and restore on a formatted HDD, which also included a system image. It was created successfully, but when I select 'restore files' from the backup and restore window, the date is different. The system image date is correct, but the backup of files and folders is 6 days earlier. Is there a reason for this? Thanks in advance :-)
What network path should i give? Plz suggest.. This is not working
The network path just need to be some where your server will be able to access to get the data.
My Windows recovery options don't have the "Advanced" button, where it let's you choose to search the network for an image. Instead it has a "show more restore points". I can't see how to point it to the network.
I don't actually need to restore anything, I just want to validate that my Image on the network is going to be usable if I do need it someday
Are you using and old Windows install disc. Perhaps you need to create the recovery disc. Also from memory the option may not appear if you have not run a backup on the system.
Password ?
when you were creating the system image it showed that aero peek was enabled but when u restored the image,aero peek was disabled..This is not complete restore..if it was a complete restore aero peek should have been enabled..
If i restore one image to multiple computers, How do i activate those other computers?I do have brand new retail keys for it but It keeps saying that the windows key cannot be used even though they are brand new keys from the box. I even removed my old key from them by using the slmgr -upk command. Please help. Thanks
MyFavOST Do you mean retail or OEM keys? If you are using OEM keys it is probably Windows rejecting the key. If it is an OEM DVD Windows expects you to use that DVD.
Hi. Great video!
There's something similar that I am ttrying to do but don't know if its ginna work.
I need to install Windows 7 with user profiles and customised settings on 70 new machines. So I was thinking that I could install windows 7 on one machine, create user profiles, customise settings and then do a bare metal backup on that machine. And then do a full recovery on all the other new machines, one by one using that backup image. You think it would work?
Greetings! I tried restoring with the same process (Creating Image from other Hardware to a new MOBO unfortunately when restart it does not boot normally and tried to Repair using Startup Repair Disc but "Cannot repair the windows automatically"
What other solution to boot into different MOBO?
Thanks and more power!
شكرا❤❤
Thanks for watching.
hi, i have this problem and i can't fix it , in 8:20 of ur video , my computer cant connecting to the network...what can i do ? plz help me ;_;
Can the system be recovered just with a system image or do you need a disc aswell? reply soon! ty
great video Thanks
but i got a problem and hopefully some one can help me
this is the situation i created a vhd of my full windows server 2008 R2 and it was automatically updated daily now after about 3 years my dell power edge t310 crashed and cant boot so i chec the perc raid conroller and my Raid 5 id degrated i go ahead and shutdown my system and replace the HDD now i try to go to F8 and select image recovery and the system crash so i decide to wipe the raid and recreate it and then use my windows server 2008 os disc to boot to recovery mode i go in and try to restore from the external usb where the image is but for some reason i cant see the backup it does not see any drive ????
can some one help me plssssss...............
Thanks
How come, i cannot access the network folder?
BECAUSE I DONT KNOW THE PASSWORD AND USERNAME FOR IT -.-
I don't know admin password
hello sir when i restore image from network location it show network not found error .
is it work on wireless connection or not. and also ask that how a pc that i do restore know ip address and network drivers without installing them. how it is possible to connect network shared folders. please tell me how i can solve it
You will need to provide a network device driver. Windows does not have all network device drivers for all network cards. You could also add the network device driver to Windows PE or the setup DVD depending on how you are doing it.
Excellent video! Thank You!
Thank you very much!
Sir i don't have a users name and password so how can i do plz reply
Thanks for the great video! I followed it exactly and it worked, but created a problem that I hope you can help me with. I replaced a 320GB primary HDD with a 1TB primary HDD, all the rest of the system remained the same. After completing the process I was surprised to see that my new 1TB HDD was only showing as the same size as my old 320GB HDD. This was when in File Manager and I right clicked on "OSDisk (C:)" and clicked on "Properties".
However, when I went to "Computer Management" then "Storage" and then "Disk Management" it appears that it has divided up the new 1TB hard drive (Disk 0) into three segments (perhaps called partitions?). They are... 1) "OSDisk (C:)" .....2) "Recovery" ......3) "Unallocated". My question is how do I get the massive 633GB "Unallocated" section assigned to the "OSDisk (C:)" so that I can use it as normal? Many thanks!!!
I thought I should mention that the partitions are in the order of 1) "OSDisk (C:)" .....2) "Recovery" ......3) "Unallocated" since everything I read sounds like I can only extend a CONTIGUOUS partition into an "Unallocated" section of the disk and the "Recovery" is between the "OSDisk (C:)" and the "Unallocated". When I right click on "Recover" it gives me the option to "Extend Volume" but when I right click on "OSDisk (C:)" the "Extend Volume" option is greyed out (can't be clicked on). Again, thanks for any advice you can provide!
1979 MGB In order to make the partition larger the other partitions needs to be moved. Not really an easy thing to do in Windows. I would suggest using this free software for home use. Assuming you are using for home use. It will allow you to make the partition larger by moving the other partitions to the end of the drive.
www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-express/
tq
Thanks very much.
What did you put on the password?
I have this file but i think its from the computer i dont really know can you let me know your password?
For this example the password is blank. The password in your case will be whatever password was used for the server.
Which username and password are you referring to? When are you getting asked for it.
Excuse me but I don't remember my password and idont no how to creat one can you tell as the password???
You need to use a password reset disk. I normal use this one. pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/
Will this process work with a RAID 1?
As long as Windows detects the drive it will work. You may need to load a driver.
This is well and good if you made a backup on a network share. Not everyone has that. I made a backup to a second internal hard drive, and Windows 7 still can't find it.
How do I get Windows 7 Recovery to detect a WindowsImageBackup on an attached internal HDD if I get the same error as you do at 7:22? I can browse to the folder in Command Prompt or when searching drivers, and I can load filed from the image within a new install of Windows, but I can't get Recovery to read it for a BMR.
+Sense Locke WE NEED ANSWER TO THIS holy fucking shit
+Sense Locke Hello, let's see. After some research, try this:
"While in Repair Mode, you have an option to open a Command Prompt. From there try the following commands:
Mountvol
(This command will show you all available drives, including your external disk)
dir Q:
(Replace Q: with one drive letter at a time from the letters that the mountvol command showed you, e.g.
dir D:
dir E:
etc.
until you see a folder "WindowsImageBackup" on the screen. Let's assume it is F:\WindowsImageBackup.
dir F:\WindowsImageBackup /s
(This command should show you the contents of the image folder, with files totalling more than 10 GBytes)
Now perhaps this image folder is missing, incomplete or inaccessible."
The commenter went on to say:
"I have to add that I am disappointed with the native imaging facility under Windows 7. It is temperamental and its functionality is extremely limited. I recently bought myself a copy of Acronis TrueImage 10 and its is to the Windows imaging tool like a fully functional motor cycle is to a child's tricycle. Other brand imaging tools are just as functional - just make sure that they are certified for Windows 7."
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/system-image-recovery-cant-find-system-image/96e1b7a2-4a02-4ec9-b4a2-0bdc5cd49a4e?auth=1
This leads me to believe you are not the first or last to encounter this issue. Let me know if this solves your problem or not. Thanks!
+FesojNagod We just replied, sorry for the delay. ;) Please let us know if you're experiencing the same issue and if this resolves your problem or not.
itfreetraining Well, I might not need this now actually since I did a clean install from 10 back to w7, and I was looking to upgrade to w10 again but I couldn't cuz windows updater wouldn't work, so I was gonna try to go back to a system restore point but I think I got my updater to work so yeah :P Thanks for answer though
You're most welcome. Windows Updater can be fickle, you may have to manually install some updates to get it to work then it'll work automatically from there. Feel free to ask any other questions!
How can i access username and password
great video, but when i m giving my password it shows an error message that " an internal error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the error" what should i do? please help me sir.
Where are you entering your password? Does it provide you more information on the error? You can paste that information here and we'll do our best to help you.
Error message is exactly the same as bellow:
"An internal error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the error: The network location cannot be reached. For information about network troubleshooting, see Windows Help. (0x800704CF)"
What is network folder?
It is a folder that is shared on the network that can be accessed by another compute on the network.
Is the internet absolutely needed for a bare-metal restore? I've built a new PC, and it has no internet access just yet. Thanks.
You do not need the internet for a bare metal restore. It is useful to have a network drivers in case you need to access the internet afterwards to download additional device drivers.
itfreetraining Thanks very much. Do I need to put my licence key in again with this? as I haven't the slightest idea what it is. I'm fairly confused as to how it works if I'm honest. Is there a guide on doing it off-line at-all?
Ei’ríġ Proinsias Dammantaċ Ó Gamhna. You will need to enter in your license key again. Depending on what you are trying to do it may be easier to use imaging software.
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Thanks. I've used the imaging software but have had difficulty with the different hardware. I'm using Hiren's Boot CD. I've used the 'Fix HDD Controller' programme, then booted into safe mode. When I go into regular mode Windows 7 essentially commits suicide by installing drivers that don't work with my new motherboard. However, in safe mode it doesn't seem possible to do the install from the motherboard's disc. Thanks again.
what if i dont have a image backup?
I try step by step but nothing, can read my patition where I have the back up , I have 47gb but can t open it! any Idea why I can restore my back I lost my pc but I have External hard drive where I have the back up thanl u -Javier-
What errors, specifically, are you getting?
1.- I have the window 8pro and windows 7
2. Ill try with both the same way you did but they can read my back up partition
3---Ii want to recover my pic and music
4 I try recover with ubuntu but nothing
i be trying for 2 years and nothing any Idea how to fix it
Thank u very much
How are you trying to access it? Just connecting it to Ubuntu as a secondary drive? Or are you using a Partition tool to check it out? Perhaps look into a Partition recovery tool which can fix damaged partitions.
First I use Windows 7 disck and try to repair the pc and I try to use my back up partition without result also I try my windows 8 pro and nothing i did lake u did en the video all steps but cant find nothing
Have you tried using a LiveCD to access the partitions?
Whts the password plzz tell
In this example no password was used. It is blank.
help me it say the network path was not found
Are what step are you getting stuck?
How can we help you?
What's the password after you put administrator in?
It was probably Pa$$word. However, it was whatever it was configured to.
Bro what should I write in password it's urgent tell me fast
The password in this video is a blank password.
who can i find this password and user name
Sir can you please tell me that password I should also reset my pc please??
The password used in this video is a blank password.
Plz make new video
Hopefully one day we will start making the Microsoft videos again. Not sure when that will be.
Sir Please My Pc not Working.
Please Share Network password
I'd - administrator
But Entar Password
I would try no password or just "Password". If you can't work it out then download a password reset tool.
Help me my system image is lost
Please share me you empty system image (I make some trouble
We can't provide any images, sorry.
It's missing completely?
whats the password for windows
The password we use was no password.
Help meee
Password y username?
Sir Please Enter Network Password
ID - administrator
But Entra Password Please
I would try no password or just "Password". Otherwise if you can't get it to work download a password reset tool.
My laptop is asking to restore using system image or load driver/operating system...I don't have system image saved in any network.. I don't know how to start my laptop. Can you please help me??? Also I want to know that after recovering all data from all disc will be removed or only from C drive? Please help me
When doing the restore, the wizard will display any system images that are available. If there are none there Windows has not been saving or them or there are no valid ones available. If this is the case, you won't be able to use system restore. Your laptop hopefully came with some recovery CD's. This will allow you to re-install your operating system. However, using the recovery CD's will erase everything on the hard disk. If you can use system restore, this should leave your data files intact, but personally I would back them up first.
@@itfreetraining If I reinstall windows 7 using bootable pendrive selecting the drive in which I had installed OS earlier (In my case I had installed it in C drive) then it will work? 2nd thing is data in my other drives while be safe if I reinstall windows 7??? Waiting for your reply...Thank you very much
@@meetalir8148 i think he died
What's the password
The password is what you set it to. If there is no password it will be blank.
Windows 10 please
We will look at updating the video on day, but the process is the same for Windows 10 and 11.
User name = ?
Password= ?
Username= Administrator
Password = (Blank)
What password?
If you have not configured a password the password will be blank.
Hi what is password
No password was used.
Where password
There is no password.
I dont know pw
There is no password in this demonstration.
Password plzz
The password used in this video was blank password
Password please
What password are you looking for?
administrator pass : mấy
Cảm ơn!
Re image your computer eror
What error are you receiving exactly?
PASSWORD???
+Kevin Willian password will be blank unless you configured it to somthing.