My image restore is not working

[tigersty1e]

So I have 3 drives

C, D, and F

I made an image backup of my main drive (C) onto drive D. I then tried to restore that image onto drive F. The image restore was successful (according to Acronis).

I then tried to boot my computer off the F drive, but I get a system error at the boot startup. I can't even get into Windows.



One wierd thing is that when I explore the F drive, all the contents of the drive are in 1 folder called Drive (C)

 

[akhilles]

No, that's not ATI's fault. That's Windows'. If you want the restore to work 100%, restore the image back to the original location c:.

 

[Cutthroat]

You can't do that because the MBR isn't on drive F it's on drive C. If you want to move an OS to a new drive you need to clone the drive.

 

[ShadowFlareX]

I agree, you need to Clone Disk it to make what you're doing to work.

In Acronis, go to Disk Utilities and select Clone Disk

 

[mooseracing]

When you make an image of hard drive there is the option to grab just the file partition, the mbr, or both. Always grab both. There is the same option when restoring.

I use this product everyday just about, and restore to multiple computers from teh same image, never an issue with booting.

 

[tigersty1e]

So I had to restore ghetto-style.

I have Seagate Discwizard (Acronis True Image Lite version), so the MBR option is not available.

I had to disconnect all the drives except for the destination drive and the external drive (with the image). I booted with the bootable acronis disk and made it think the image was restoring on the original drive.

It worked although it was a PIA.