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Hi Barry, My computer crashed during a backup so I thought it's probably a good idea to validate the backup. The backup that was running when it crashed doesn't appear in the session list at all so I suspect there would be orphaned files hanging around? So I tried to run a validate backup but it abo...

That's pretty much the procedure but I'll write it out again with some more notes: 1: Make a restore CD using a PC running Windows 8.1 - The restore DVD (not CD) was made using a LAPTOP running Windows 8 (not 8.1) 2: Run a backup of all partitions to an external disk drive from the PC to be upgraded...

Hi Barry, I just had this problem again. I tried to restore a Windows 7 system partition onto a new SSD. I pressed the button to create the GPT partition which seemed to work, then restored the system partition onto the remaining space. The result however is that the files were restored onto the ext...

That works fine as long as the BCDBackup folder already exists on the desktop. The tablet is able to boot from a USB device so a full restore is possible without an operating system running on the main storage device. I wouldn't want to rely on the BCD on a replacement tablet because I suspect the W...

Do you think you'll be able to resolve the problem of backing up the BCD in the next version? Or is it not that simple?

Martin

It's not possible to exchange the eMMC storage in the tablet, but I'm not sure it shipped with the same partitions as I did a Windows 8.1 upgrade on it. The fact that it now contains two Windows Recovery Environment partitions makes me suspect that the upgrade created a new partition, especially as ...

Hi Barry, Sorry yes I think VSS was just set to manual rather than disabled. I just saw that it wasn't running and jumped to the conclusion that was causing the problem. The wikipedia article for GPT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table) says that Windows 8 32-bit does support EFI so i...

I tried running the backup from the main interface instead of from a shortcut, which gives me a bit more information. When it hangs it says "preparing open exclusive file support" on volume \\?\HarddiskVolume2\ Diskpart lists the following partitions: Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Stat...

Thanks for the reponse Barry. I put the tablet to sleep overnight while it was still hung, and in the morning the message "Exclusively Open - Deferred" was gone and in its place just "BCD". It was still stuck on the same file though. I had to kill it with task manager as the abor...

Hi Barry, I just ran AIS for the first time on a clean Windows 8.1 install on an Asus VivoTab ME400C tablet. I ran it from a desktop icon. It got stuck at file 85321 of 85353, just hanging with the message "Exclusively Open - Deferred". It has been sitting like that for 20 minutes and the ...

I attempted a restore using the boot disk (actually on a USB stick). I was restoring a complete Win7 installation including both the boot partition and main system partition. The backup files were stored on an external USB drive. The destination was a new 3TB hard disk which I had already set up wit...

I created a bootable restore program on USB stick to perform a restore, but it doesn't recognise external drives plugged in to the USB 3 port. Plugging it in to a USB 2 port works, but only when it is plugged in already when the program boots up. This combination of problems made me waste hours look...

I am experiencing the problem described in the following thread: http://aiscl.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=819 I am backing up a 64bit Windows 7 system volume to a TrueCrypt encrypted external drive partition, and getting the following errors: Failed to initialise Volume Shadow Copy Service for Driv...

I'm getting the following errors backing up my Windows 7 64bit system: 19:55:17 SSTART Backup Session 3 Auto Run: Started on Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2011 at 19:55:17 Version: 2.9 (398) 19:55:17 INF Platform: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, 64-bit Service Pack 1 (Build 7601) 19:55:17 INF Path: C:\P...

It just crashed again, but this time I had AISBackup logging everything. The end of the log is this: 12:20:46 AM REG Finished Registry Backup 12:20:46 AM INF Backing up 1 Exclusively Opened File 12:26:57 AM EXCEPTION Exception: EAccessViolation: Access violation at address 00404256 in module 'AISBAC...