Backup4all Forum

Have been doing incremental backups to a local drive of all files on 4 other drives (2 internal, 2 USB). Win7 hard drive crashed. Followed directions in article about this subject. Reinstalled Win7 and Backup4all 4.x. Told it to restore all files to original locations for the C (Win7) drive only. After restore system would no longer boot and there were over 61,000 files that did not restore. These were files deep in the Windows directory.

Reformatted & re-installed Win7. Booted into Vista from a different drive and ran Backup4All from there - told it to restore all files from the Win7 drive, restored to a different location and pointed it to the Win 7 drive. All the program and data files seemed to restore properly but still had the same 61,000+ files that did not restore. When I rebooted to the restored Win7 drive, startup repair ran and could not fix the problem but said that ntosnrnl.exe was corrupt. I can fix that, but how can I get Backup4All to actually restore all files?

Hi,

First, please note Backup4all was not designed for system backups.
Before the restore started, did you select "Restore excluded and deleted files" option?