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Could not boot into Win7 after successful recovery.

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Laptop that I have is.
HP ENVY TouchSmart m7-j020dx
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c038951…

With that I want to remove Win8 and clone my existing Win7 from the desktop that I have. I made a image of desktop PC, burned Acronis Recovery DVD.

BIOS settings in laptop look like this (please see attachment also)
Legacy mode: Enabled
Security mode: Disabled

DVD restore went fine on laptop restoring my desktop C drive to laptop.

Here comes problems:
Laptop wont boot into Win7
Once I noticed some Acronis boot menu where I clearly could see (old) Win7 logo , so that is it is there, but now way to boot int othat windows.

Attached are some more smokescreens that explains everything.

Please advise

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Julie,
You don't want to start Windows when the TI boot CD is in the tray.
Try to boot into Windows without using the CD. You may have to open the BIOS and make sure the hard drive is the selected drive.
Do you have a user created Windows Recovery CD? If yes and Windiws still will not boot, you may need to boot into the Windows CD and run the Startup Repair.

Windows 7 usually has a non-lettered recovery or system partition, hopefully, you also restored that at time of your restore.

Hi Grover

Yes I think you are right.
The image I created contains C: and non-lettered drive called MBR.
Now thing is I can select both to restore,
but I dont have any available drive where to restore 2nd MBR drive.

My HD is partitioned like C:, D: (with data that I have to keep) and there are some other drives like WinRT etc.
Still I cant choose any destination drive for MBR.

And you mention Windows Recovery CD? What is that . Do I create that from Win7 machine ?

Julie,
You have some problems and not being a technician, I am not sure how I can help.

As I understand your situation.
You had Win8 installed and used your backup of win 7 (C drive only) to restore overlaying the C of Win8.
The drive does not boot and you have no Win 7 or Win8 Recovery CD.

One problem is that your backup was most likely incomplete as it normally contains a non-lettered partition labeled as Recovery or System and that was not or does not appear to be part of the backup nor part of the restore. This partition is not to be confused with your track0/MBR option which is included with your restore options. So it appears that your system may have a mix of Win7 and Win8 but I am uncertain.

If you have access to other computers identical to yours, it "may" be used to create e a Windows Recovery CD and that "may" be usable on yours. The method used to create a Windows Recovery CD differs on computers. One method you can try is to go into start/Control Panel/Backup and see if you the option to create a Windows system repair disk is listed there. If not in the control panel, you may find the option listed under START/Programs/Maintenance; or the option to create a system repair disk may listed under a folder named after the computer manufacturer.

If you can find a Windows repair disk to try, you will need to boot from the CD and try the Startup Repair. This type repair will take multiple passes via the Repair CD.

Respond back with your status and I will request another volunteer look at your posting and see he can offer any further help. Ultimately, if worst comes to worst, you may have a technician work on your computer and have him reinstall Widows 7.

Jalle,

Grover asked that I have a look at your posts and comment. I must say that I read your post earlier today and could not understand totally what you did and did not do.

I have studied your included screen captures and will comment based on them.

cam00210.jpg: Acronis event log screen. From that screen it looks like you started a recover operation, TI located the chosen backup file to recover, deleted the exiting partition on the target (notebook) drive and then restored the backup file to that partition.

Now, since as Grover has pointed out, Windows 7 and 8 installations have more than one partition on system disks. Windows 7 typically has 2 or 3 partitions. On a Win 7 install you will have a 100MB System Reserve partition unlettered, followed by either the C: partition if the machine was built by a none OEM or in the case of an OEM machine might have a few hundred MB Recovery partition unlettered followed by the C: partition.

On a typical Win 8 install you will find 4 partitions. The extra one or 2 if none OEM are non lettered and are EFI System which contains the boot information and some configuration files and a Recovery Partition. (OEM = Original Equipment Manufacturer, HP, Dell, etc.)

Since you performed a partition restore operation with TI, I assume then that you also did a partition backup of the C: partition on your desktop thinking that you could just restore that image over the C: partition on your notebook and all would be well.

If my assumptions are correct then your machine will not boot and I do not think that any kind of repair will work either. In this case your only solution will be to perform a clean install of a Win 7 OS on your notebook if in fact that is the OS you want on that machine which it sounds like that was the objective here.

If my assumptions are wrong about what you did then post back with further details and I will see what I can do.