[Thinkpad] (Followup) Restoring from USB Not Working!

[Jon Kelly]

GRUB will absolutely interefere w/ R&R.  R&R expects to find a certain
partition layout, and to my experience can't be trained otherwise.  I had a
similar problem when running dual-boot w/ Gentoo... everytime R&R would get
updated, it would hose GRUB, and I would have to redo the config file using
a live CD.

As such I've abandonded any attempts at using R&R in conjunction w/ a
dual-boot system.

On 10/21/06, Kelvin Quee <kq at kquee.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing this as a followup to "Windows Update *May* Break Access
> Connections" (Oct 11). At that point of time, Windows Update broke all
> of my network connections. I've tried everything I could. Since then,
> I've been doing all my work in Linux. Whether that's a good thing or
> not remains to be seen.
>
> Today, I tried to restore the system using the famed R&R. I booted
> into XP and attempted to restore from a USB HDD. Everything goes as
> expected and R&R rebooted into XP.
>
> However, that's THAT. The computer simply goes into the normal XP
> startup sequence. NO RESTORATION ever took place.
>
> Thinking that I would do better if I boot into the R&R Workspace in
> the hidden partition, I did so. However, the R&R Workspace refused to
> detect my USB HDD.
>
> So, now I'm stuck. I've a working backup in my USB HDD, but none of
> the R&R methods can allow me to restore.
>
> Can anyone offer any clue?
>
> I'm working in a multiboot environment. Will GRUB interfere even
> though I've full access to both XP and the hidden partition?
>
> What's the expected behaviour after selected a restore from USB HDD
> function from Windows XP and a reboot?
>
> I've went through Lenny's website but it does not seem to offer any
> clues. Google was more helpful in the sense that many people seems to
> have issues with restoring from USB.
>
>