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Success, fireworker!!! The BR 14 Free "Restore from VD Wizard" was a little flaky, but eventually worked and restored the full disk. The wizard presents three Restore types as options, the first of...

Ahhh! Just realized I made a mistake above, because partition numbers in the BR 14 archive are 0-3, while those in the partition table are 1-4. So,



... should have been:
"... increasing the...

Sorry for the slow reply, fireworker. Work got in the way. First, thanks for the additional tips and thoughts.

Before running DISKPART to change the partition size, I decided to check for for...

Sorry, I didn’t notice your last comments. How can I look at the HDD’s SMART parameters? And how can I identify and remap any bad sectors?

No, it’s the same HDD that came with the Toshiba.



Your suspicions about the partitions seem reasonable, and I liked your suggestion to try updating the MBR ... so I did. The operation...

Thanks for all the coaching, fireworker. I thought I was headed to the goal. Unfortunately, right after I clicked “Next> to start restoring the C: drive, I got this error message: “Partitions...

Ok, I got to the point where the “Restore from VHD Wizard” presents check boxes to select which partitions to restore, and checked only the one corresponding to the C: drive. Unfortunately, I didn’t...

Guess I don’t know enough to be surprised by 875 GB. The Toshiba recovery tool restores the disk to its original state, with all sorts of Toshiba goodies and 3rd party apps. Maybe that accounts for...

Thanks for your critique, and suggestion to restore only the C: partition. I was hoping that would be enough.

I suspect partition #3 contains Win 7, the original OS installed on the Toshiba, and...

I've been using BR 14 Free for several years, creating monthly a full VD backup and weekly incremental backups, and now finally have a chance to see if the effort was worthwhile. This posting is a...