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    Resore system image from network storage drive

    Hello - I have a HP Pavilion with Windows 7 Premium 64, and have my computer back up daily, with weekly system image back ups using the Windows back up utility. This backs up to a DLink DNS 323 network storage device. Last Friday my hard drive failed, and I didn't feel too bad becuase of my back ups. Yesterday after replacing the hard drive I tried using the System Repair Disc to restore the System Image, but couldn't locate anything on the network to restore. I checked with DLink support and they said this is a Windows issue. Hoping I can get some ideas how to proceed and get my data on the new hard drive.

    THe DLink site suggested that I try everything out before I need it to make sure it all works as planned. I would have no idea how to try out the System Repair Disc and restore the System Image without having a blank hard drive or jeopardizing the data on my current drive. Any suggestions on that would also be appreciated.

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    Re: Resore system image from network storage drive

    Hello and welcome to the forum. Hmmm.
    I was under the impression that you needed Windows 7 Pro or higher in order to backup to a network location. Compare Windows - Microsoft Windows
    Have you managed to follow the instructions for an image recovery from here Restore your computer from a system image backup
    Did you previously have the location mapped as a network drive?
    Can you browse to the location of the image(s)? Are they .VHD format? Can you mount one and browse it from the disk management utility?
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    Re: Resore system image from network storage drive

    Thank you fo rthe reply. 1st off, my mistake - I do have Windows 7 Pro 64. Sorry about that. I did find the Microsft page yesterday about restoring from a system image backup. Everything went as described until I had to put in the network address/location. That's where I hit the wall. When I installed the DLink storage device I did map as a network drive on all the computers in our house. I think I did it correctly as you can find the network drive on all computers through Windows Explorer. Using a different computer other than the one with the failed hard drive I am able to access the network device and the Windows Image Files. There are 3 files in .VHD format. Regarding your last question if I can mount one of the files and browse it from the disc management utility - I have no idea what that means and how to do. I did look in the control/config for the storage device and there were no utilities that sounded anything like that.

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    Re: Resore system image from network storage drive

    A simple msdn blog post on how to mount a .vhd file in windows 7 using the disk management utility. Mounting VHDs with Windows 7 - Virtual PC Guy's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

    Sounds to me like under your current boot scenario "System Repair Disk", that you network components are not supported. So unless you have a means to attach the drive containing your systems images locally (USB) or can somehow move or copy them to a local drive or partition, then you may have to reinstall Windows 7 to a point where your computer can access your network in order to be able to use those images on your NAS and then perform the image recovery.
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    Re: Resore system image from network storage drive

    I think I can handle that. I appreciate your help! Thanks for the thorough explanation.

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    Re: Resore system image from network storage drive

    The device seems to have permissions set for local groups. If you are doing a re-image, not sure you would be in one of the groups to allow access.

    Otherwise, it does appear to be set up with a network address, as long as you are not trying FTP access. When you start the re-image, do any network locations show?

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    Re: Resore system image from network storage drive

    No network locations show up, and when I try to type in the network address it comes back with invalid location. So that's as far as I got. I didn't proceed with the system recovery discs as I didn't want to have to reinstall all the programs and such, but it sounds like if I do use the system recovery option I can then restore the image files after the restore.

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    Re: Resore system image from network storage drive

    I would use another PC and download the image file(s) to an external drive. Once you have the VHD, it can be used for recovery - even if Windows recovery fails (that is very touchy anyhow).

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    Re: Resore system image from network storage drive

    I'm having the exact same problem.

    Created a Win System Image on my network share drive (Seagate GoFlex Home) withougt issue. Went to restore and Windows keeps asking for the device location in the usual \\server\share format. No matter what is entered, Win keeps giving the 'invalid location' message

    Contacte Seagate but they say they don't support a Win System Image restore from one of their drives

    Apparently the issue is that the Seagate can't present a location in a format that Win will understand.

    I believe the GoFlex Home is not a 'dumb' drive but has some type of no-frills OS on it (Linux?). So there is probably some secret handshake at the OS level that lets Win 7 access the GoFlex home ..

    I'm sniffing around for some third party tool that can do this ...

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    Re: Resore system image from network storage drive

    I think the problem is with Windows system imaging. I have met many people who were left out in the cold with broken images. Therfore I made a tutorial on how to recover Win7 images anyhow. System Image - Recover a Broken Windows 7 System Image - Windows 7 Forums

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