I'm attempting to test a bare-metal XP-Pro restore by booting the ShadowProtect ISO in VMWare and restoring from DVDs. However, I'm blocked at the 'restore destination', as all the partitioning options give an unhelpful 'failed to create partition' message.

 I've attached the VM config file, if that helps..

- Chris

 

I have never seen this before.  Can you create a partition manually from the Disk Map tab in the recovery environment?  Also, what version of the recovery CD are you using?  Have you tried both the Vista-based and 2003-based recovery environments, and was the result the same?  What is the size of the virtual disk and the size of the original partition of the image file you are restoring?

Using ISO 3.2 and the Vista environment. 

I can create the partition manually from the disk map tab.

Now the restore dies with a device access error. Yes, the recover images have been verified to be good. It just seems to be a vmware issue. Is there a known good combination of vmware version/settings and recovery environment which I can try?

Here is the log from a failed verify attempt. It is the same error for the restore:

15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sptask    110    Worker thread has started
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sptask    111    sbrun -mdn ( sbfile -r \\?\B:\tmp\C_VOL-b009.spf : sbcrypt : sbrest  )
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    (loader)    112    corelogic version: 1.0.0.210
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbfile    101    successfully opened file \\?\B:\tmp\C_VOL-b009.spf
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbcrypt    109    filter started
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbcrypt    107    image compression mode: 5
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbcrypt    107    image encryption mode: 3
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbcrypt    601    Please enter the decryption password
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sptask    101    Answer was sent as UNICODE string
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbrest    109    image created at 01-Jul-2008 18:00:11 GMT+10:00
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbrest    109    imaged volume had 206226405 sectors, 512 bytes each
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbrest    109    image GUID {79B1FC3B-BCC8-4EA5-BA36-B51F99AE79CC}
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbrest    109    image has no comment
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbrest    109    original disk C/H/S = 60801/255/63 partition #2
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbrest    109    image created on:
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbrest    109     - OS version 5.01 build 2600 Service Pack 3
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbrest    109     - machine VOSTRO (192.168.1.20) MAC 00:1D:09:80:47:01
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbrest    109     - corelogic version 1.0.0.202
15-Jul-2008 15:55:05    sbrest    107    partition type for a target: 7
15-Jul-2008 15:55:33    sbfile    108    retrying file read after error (-31 A device attached to the system is not functioning.)
15-Jul-2008 15:55:41    sbfile    107    last message repeated 20 time(s)
15-Jul-2008 15:55:41    sbfile    503    Fatal I/O error on \\?\B:\tmp\C_VOL-b009.spf offset 100000 on read (-31 A device attached to the system is not functioning.)
15-Jul-2008 15:55:41    sbcrypt    500    Unexpected end of the image file
15-Jul-2008 15:55:41    sbrest    500    Unexpected end of the image file
15-Jul-2008 15:55:41    sbcrypt    109    fini done
15-Jul-2008 15:55:41    sbfile    109    fini done
15-Jul-2008 15:55:41    sbrest    109    fini done
15-Jul-2008 15:55:41    (loader)    504    Final error (-31 A device attached to the system is not functioning.)
15-Jul-2008 15:55:41    sptask    516    sbrun.exe started successfully but failed to complete the task
 

Hmm . . . so do you mean the verify on this image file worked elsewhere, but when you run it from within VMWare it fails as shown above?  Are you still restoring from DVDs?  Since the verify failed "on read" (when it was trying to read from the source), you may want to consider getting the image file(s) off of DVD and onto a hard disk.  Maybe VMWare's method of attaching to the host OS's optical drive is part of the problem.  I don't think I've ever tried to restore an image to VMWare from DVDs, but I'll try it out and see if I get the same problem.

Kevin

Verify on the image files works on non-vm PC running desktop edition. This works for both the files on DVD and a local drive.

Verify fails from within vmware using ISO 3.2 vista, for both DVD and the local drive mounted as a share. The log above is for the networked drive.

With the network share the verify fails on the first file (as logged above).

With the DVDs the verify fails on the last disk (4/4).

I should note that I tried restore/verify from DVD several times before giving up because it took > 3/4 hour to reach point of failure, then trying the network drive only to discover a different problem there - at least it fails sooner!

- Chris