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Can this Rollback error be corrected without Rollback reinstall??

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Old 01-10-2011, 04:29 PM
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Default Can this Rollback error be corrected without Rollback reinstall??

OK, I'm stupid. At midnight I had one of those #$%%$# moments.
I have a single HD with three partition with all partitions protected by Rollback. I was imaging my 2nd internal HD (not Rollback protected) outside Windows. Specifically, I was running Reflect under Windows PE. I realized I didn't have enough image space on my external USB backup drive, I was REAL TIRED and said to myself "there is almost no data on my Rollback protected drive Partition #3, just temporarily put the image there". When the image was 99.9% created, a little voice said "that was REAAAAL STUPID". I wrote to a Rollback protected drive OUTSIDE Windows. If that wasn't bad enough, I then thought, "it's OK, just reboot and restore Rollback to a previous snapshot". I did a reboot, hit HOME, picked the last snapshot and Rollback said it loaded it without error. However, upon reboot, the only thing I now get is:
"NTLDR not found" error. I'm screwed, I'm stupid.

I have Win XP-Pro SP3. I assume the error is from the old Win NT kernel or core and is trying to run the "loader" for the NTFS drive. Correct?

I have a couple of backup images, so I "should" be able to restore from an earlier date at the time the image was created and then reinstall Rollback. If I do a restore, I recognize it will (sigh !) lose all my existing Rollback snapshots.

However, before I do that . . . . is there ANY WAY to correct the "NTLDR not found" error and hopefully be able to re-start and save all my old Rollback snapshots?? I have a couple of dozen snapshots I'd rather not lose.
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Old 01-10-2011, 05:53 PM
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P.S. to my OP
Although the Rollback console comes up on each reboot, the system hangs with the "NTLDR is missing" message no matter what snapshot I try to restore.
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Old 01-11-2011, 03:18 AM
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Ye gods.

You would have to know an awful lot more about the RBRx internals than I do to pick any sense out of what's left. One might have hoped that the database would be partitioned so that a corruption on one drive partition did not bugger up RBRx on the remaining partitions, but you seem to have disproved that one.

I would also think that, to have any hope at all, you should have frozen as you were and sought advice without any further tinkering to make a bad situation worse.

All I can suggest is that you do nothing further and seek help direct from Horizon.
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