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SYMPTOMS:
If you receive a new storage drive, and wish to perform Disaster Recovery restore on it, you will need first to initiate that drive and create a new NTFS formatted partition.
CAUSE:
Typically newly purchased internal hard drives comes with no active partition , and in order to have successful Disaster Recovery restore you will needs to have the same file system as the original drive that the Disaster Recovery backup job was generated.
RESOLUTION:
You will need to create a new partition on the new hard drive and format it to NTFS; due to NTFS is the main file system for local drives for Windows Xp, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
Please use this guide to perform the format from outside windows environment, but please note formatting deletes all existing data on the hard drive.
- Download GParted Live CD from the following link:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
- Burn the downloaded .iso image file once the download completes to a CD/DVD drive.
- Insert that CD/DVD to your computer then reboot and make sure that your computer is specified to boot from that CD/DVD drive in the BIOS options.
- Boot from the Live CD, it will first ask you a couple of questions before entering the Live CD environment, which consist of configuring keymaps, language, and video mode, if you're desired language is English, then please simply press Enter on all the questions to accept the default English settings.
- Look at the screenshot guide below and do the same.
This is the First Screen that you will see, after inserting the boot-able CD/DVD Parted Magic Disc, keep it with the default settings and press enter.
GParted Program will automatically launch, please make sure to select the correct drive to be formatted, if you have multiple drives please use the drop down list to choose the correct one.
This is how the new unformatted hard drive should look like with unallocated space.
Right click that drive --> New.
A Create New Partition Dialogue will appear.
In the Create New Partition Dialogue, make sure to select the File system to NTFS.
Then Press Add.
Then Press Apply.
Afterwards a confirmation message will appear, press apply again.
After the process completes, a window will appear stating that all operating successfully completed.
Now that we have created a new NTFS partition, we need to mark it as boot-able partition, simply right click the newly created partition --> Manage Flags --> and check Boot, then close. This is done so after the Disaster Recovery restore completes, your computer boots-up from that specific partition.
A new boot-able partition has been created and NTFS formatted, your ready to start the Disaster Recovery restore to that drive, you can shutdown the machine and log out now by right clicking on the desktop --> Exit --> Shutdown-Menu.
APPLIES TO:
All versions of Genie Timeline & Genie Backup Manager.
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