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When I installed an external hard drive for the purpose of backing up the internal hard disk of my desktop, I accepted all the default settings of the backup software by NTI Backup Now EZ.

 

The faulty internal hard drive has now been replaced with a new drive and running ‘restore’ does not work.

 

The error message is:

 

Problem signature:

  Problem Event Name:  APPCRASH

  Application Name:  Restore.exe

  Application Version:  3.0.2.66

  Application Timestamp:  5461bd19

  Fault Module Name:  Restore.exe

  Fault Module Version:  3.0.2.66

  Fault Module Timestamp:  5461bd19

  Exception Code:  c0000005

  Exception Offset:  00056293

  OS Version:  6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3

  Locale ID:  1033

  Additional Information 1:  0a9e

  Additional Information 2:  0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

  Additional Information 3:  0a9e

  Additional Information 4:  0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

 

 

Is ‘restore’ supposed to work only on the old drive?  Does it matter that the new drive is not of the same brand and storage capacity?

 

Would it make any difference if I had backup on cloud storage?

 

Is there a way to cover data from the spoilt disk?  

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Looking back, my new external drive is virtually empty where applications are concerned, so it could not have been an application crash.

 

I emailed the software company.  Apparently they don’t know either.

 

Anyway, it’s not important, just curious to know what went wrong.

 

Incidentally, the given link is a malware.  

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Hi, is that faulty internal drive still detectable if you attached it as an external drive?

If yes, you could try recuva by piriform

https://www.piriform.com/recuva

Hope it might help you.

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Not sure. you can remove it from you computer and plug it into another computer with a working OS and see the working computer detects it as a secondary hdd.

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Now why didn't the computer shop I took it to for servicing adopt that approach?  Instead, a new disk is installed as replacement.  I took back the old disk.

 

Can you explain how the technician was able to install the OS without any recovery disk from me? Based on the product key found on the label on the CPU casing? 

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  On 3/25/2015 at 12:05 PM, victor said:

Now why didn't the computer shop I took it to for servicing adopt that approach?  Instead, a new disk is installed as replacement.  I took back the old disk.

 

Can you explain how the technician was able to install the OS without any recovery disk from me? Based on the product key found on the label on the CPU casing? 

Yes that is most likely it. If your product key is there, they just need to use that. If they reinstall your OS that is. In any case if it was not pasted on your computer, they would be asking you for it in order to do a clean install.

 

They got you a new disk maybe bacause they try it and it failed the test to see if it reads/write apart from being recognised by another PC. The other reason they got you to install a new HDD becasue it might be easier to get you to buy a new HDD then to tell you it can be save but they can't do that service and ask you to go eslewhere. And they rather not lose your business and make money from you intalling a new HDD. They not stupid heheheh

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