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brombasch_cgi's avatar
brombasch_cgi
Level 4
12 years ago

How to Backup bootable CF cards

Hi,

I have Windows 7 and SSR 2013 installed on a machine (machine 1). I have an other machine (machine 2) that has Windows 7 installed on a CF card. Machine 2 only has this CF card installed as a system disk. Now I want to plugin the CF card from my machine 2 into the running machine 1 using a card reader and then perform a backup of the whole CF card. The CF card shows correctly in the harddisk management of machine 1 (see attachment 1). SSR2013, however, does not show me one of the volumes on that CF card (see attachment 2).

How can I get SSR 2013 to backup my CF card?

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Backup and Recovery
SSR 2013
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Windows 7
  • Markus_Koestler's avatar
    Markus_Koestler
    Moderator
    12 years ago

    Maybe you can try to disable the unused slots in the card reader ? --> https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/ssr-2013-does-not-find-drives

  • brombasch_cgi's avatar
    brombasch_cgi
    Level 4
    12 years ago

    Hi Markus,

    unfortunately this did not help at all.

    First, in the storage management, the unused slots do not show. Also, in the device manager there is only one entry for the card reader. Thus I cannot disable anything, otherwhise the card I want to backup will not be available anymore.

    Reading the link you provided I would also strongly agree with cfelliot that this is not a solution.

  • Dave_H1's avatar
    Dave_H1
    Level 4
    12 years ago

    Pardon me but what does "wechselmedium" mean, is that "removable"?

    I don't use CF cards but I have a couple laptops that I boot to SDHC cards and those have never shown up in SSR either.  I thought they were unsupported just like flash drives.

    If it's any help, I can image them with Ghost Solution Suite and that will restore everything but the boot sector. In my case I'm using grub so after I restore the image I need to reinstall grub to make them bootable again.

    Sorry if I misunderstood.

    Dave