I have a 3 month old Dell Precision M6600 laptop that have backup daily to the Sentinel. I had a had drive crash and Dell insatlled a new hard drive. I made a USB Fash drive key from the flash drive of another computer for this computer as per the user guide.
I boot from the fash drive and I get this error message:
RestoreCDInit.exe application error
Windows cannot continue from this exception (oxc0000025)
occurred in the application oxff1fb477
click ok to terminate program
I have been in contact with level 2 tech support for the sentinel and so far I have not got to first base. I have the WD Guardian Severice. I have tried on another laptop 2005 vintage and I can boot and frind the system backup files. For whatever reason it will not work with the Dell laptop. I have been online to several other forums and have tried several things but still can not boot to the sever. I can see the files by double clicking the client restore wizard file on the USB Flash drive but can not do a restore.
Like one of the comments in one of the foums you can do a daily backup but can not restore.
I am at lost of what to do next. I feel I have spent a lot of money on a backup sever that I can not use.
Anybody have suggestions? I am aware of the post for a Sony laptop but there was no solutions.
If you are booting the laptop from the USB device there may not be enough correct drivers to allow the program to run. You may have to actually restore from the dell restore disk and then install the WD backup program and restore your files.
2nd option get a USB HD enclosure, put the new drive in the enclosure, connect it to the laptop you said it worked on. Restore the drive to the USB hard drive. Take the new hard drive out of the enclosure and put in your dell laptop.
3rd option. remove drive from laptop that the program worked. Insert new hard drive. Boot with USB. restore the drive. Move the drive over to the dell when complete.
I have done all of that. What I need is bare metal restore which is they system file and all of the programs. I can restore the data file etc. That is not what is needed and only one of the reason that I do a daily backup. The main reason is to do a full restore in case of a hard disk cash which I can not do. I have spent about 3 hours with level 2tech support trying several things. Nothing worked. I was told that they have not come across this problem before. They sent the problem to engineering and will get back to me Monday.
What Santron hinted at is also an option. If you can connect your new blank hard drive to a working system booted to windows, you can the run clientrestore.exe (whatever it is) from the usb drive, select your new/broken laptop from the list of computers, and properly select the image and corect drive to restore it to. Then shut it all down, put the restored drive in your new broken laptop and it should boot.
When you boot have a choice to boot from HDD, CD/DVD, USB or uEFI. H have tried the usb and uEFI with level 2 tech support and nothing works can only get to point when the message from original post comes up
Like I said, you need to boot from the retore CD. I have yet to see anyone get the uEFI to boot from the thumb drive. If you do not have a restore CD you can try this:
Requirements: USB boot drive created with the wizzard. Ensure that the drive correctly boots on a BIOS system. A copy of bootmgfw.efi. You can obtain this from an install of 64-bit Windows 7 - look in C:\Windows\Boot\EFI. A system with native 64-bit UEFI 2.0 firmware. This is pretty much all Sandy Bridge systems (except for Gigabyte
motherboards) and some new laptops.
Instructions: In the root of your USB drive, there is the \efi\microsoft\boot directory. Copy this directory one level up so the
files also reside under \efi\boot. Copy the bootmgfw.efi file to \efi\boot, and rename it to bootx64.efi. Test the USB drive in a UEFI system. It should automatically boot with the UEFI method, but you may have to specifically choose UEFI boot depending on your system.
Also note, restores only work on a wired connection.
The restore is in process. The following is the steps that I used.
After reading your reply you stimulated my brain. I look at the files on Dell Laptop restore CD and compared to the boot USB flash key made by the WD Sentinel 4000DX. I decided to copy the language pack the setup execution file and auto run to the boot flash drive. I than rebooted and the first time I selected the USB drive and it failed to load. I than rebooted and selected the uEFI for the boot sequence. It loaded the drivers, Windows loaded, keyboard language loaded and then I was able to go to where I needed to load the network drivers. I than stop the process and rebooted to windows, loaded the dashboard, selected the dell Laptop backup, found the folder System Restore Drivers and copied to another USB Flash Drive. I than exited out of Dashboard and restarted the laptop and booted from the uEFI again and when it ask to load drivers I loaded off of the second USB Flash Drive and was able to select my back and start the restore. It has now been restoring for about 3 hours and I have about another 12 hours to go.
At least we have found a work around and I thank everybody for their suggestions. Once the restore is completed I will recreate the process that I used and make notes and add to or make corrections to this post.
It will be interesting to see what WD level 2 tech and engineering comes up with for a solution. I will let you know.
Please let me know when you get time to piddle with it. Our goal is to get the Wizzard thumb drive to boot uEFI. I have bought 2 diff uEFI motherboards to test with but they just don’t seem to behave the same as Dell. I have a Dell 610 server sitting here in a box but just have not had the enregy to lug that big beast out of the box.
Not sure if you have ever used the Windows 7 USB DVD tool. But it makes a thumb drive from a Win7 or Server 08 iso. They do not boot uEFI either on Dell boxes.
I know uEFI is great, but we are not ready for it :) You cannot restore a uEFI box backup into a Hyper-V guest either.
And FWIW, on any machine (except the server) you can open the backup for any machine to get the drivers for restore folder.
The full system restore competed in about 19 hours without any problems. I have check various software that was installed and so far no problems. I have even made backup from the dash board without any problems.
I have done some experimenting and discovered that I used another second USB flash drive yesterday. I removed the setup file and Langpack folder that I had copied from the Dell " Reinstallation DVD for Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit "to that USB flash drive and rebooted and I was able to go all the way to where I could do a restore… You still have to boot from UEIF Boot,( UEFI: INT13(0x81)). USB flash key was made by the WD Sentinel 4000DX as per the instruction manual for the computer that I wanted to restore I also copied the folder “Drivers FOR Full System Restore” to the flash drive so you will have the necessary drivers that will be needed.
I tried the other first USB Flash drive made from the Sentinel and it will not work. at all for the reboot process. fo what ever reason.
The WD Sentinel 4000DX does not come with a client restore CD. You make the USB Flash Drive Key by plugging in to the Sentinel and using the Dashboard to make a key for the computer that you want to restore.
