Tried to recover to another Hard Drive
I'm using Acronis True Image Home 2010. I Image my C drive into my 2nd Hard drive 2nd partition. I restored my image to my 2nd Hard Drive 1st partition. Rebooted and my Windows 7 1st Hard Drive came up and then I shut down, removed my 1st Hard Drive and rebooted and got "Bootmgr is mission". I put back my 1st Hard Drive and booted into Windows 7 and went to Disk Management and where the image was restore has no drive letter and I can't give it one. So I figure I did something wrong.


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Do you have hidden partitions? - No, I build all my own computers
We first have to make sure (it would be an primary, active, boot,... partition), you need to restore only that partition to your 2nd hard drive, 1st partition. Do not restore the MBR and track 0 right now. - I did restore the MBR so I'll delete the partition and start again.
You should be able to see all your files there. - I want to use the 2nd Hard Drive and pull the 1st one out but it has to re-boot before I can do that so I need to change the drive letter?
I would prefer you do this restore from the recovery CD - The image is on my 2nd drive so should I pull my 1st drive out and use the recovery CD?
If your goal is to be able to boot from your 2nd hard disk only, verify that:
- BIOS boot settings are such that you are booting from the disk with the recovered partition,
- the partition your recovered to is marked active.
If this is the case, use your Windows installation disk to repair the startup of your 2nd hard disk. It might take a couple of passes. - Are you talking about the .ini file? Where you change the boot sequence?
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Richard,
When you use Windows 7 installation CD on a blank disk, it will create a system reserved partition automatically. If the disk has been formatted and partitioned prior to installation, the installation will use the existing partition(s).
Yes. Do the restore entirely from the Recovery CD. Remove your original disk, boot on the CD, restore your image as primary, active.
Using the Windows DVD, boot and check with a command prompt that all your files are in the right partition. While you are at it, enter "C:", "dir boot*.*. This should show a boot folder and bootmgr.
Then launch DISKPART from the same command prompt. Enter "List disk", "select disk 0" (assuming this is your disk), "list partitions". Verify that the partition has the right letter, that it is active. To change any parameter, first type select partition 1 (for example), enter "active", enter "assign letter = C".
We are now sure your partition is ready to be bootable.
At this point, you can restore your MBR, track 0 and disk signature from the recovery CD to make sure you will avoid activation issues. Alternatively, you can finalize directly from booting with the Windows installation DVD (see below).
If the computer doesn't boot, your last resort is to reboot with the Win 7 installation DVD. Choose install, then click on repair and then repair startup. This will recreate the boot files and the boot records. The DVD fixes one issue at a time, so you have to reboot and redo until it works. If it doesn't work (rare), you will have to manually copy the boot folder and bootmgr file to the root of the partition, and run the fixes from the command prompt.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/fixing-bootmgr-is-missing-…
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Pat, thanks for helping me. I'm going to try what you said tomorrow because I am tired trying to do this. If I can't get this to work I'm just going to buy another HD (2T, 64 meg Buffer, SATA 3 (6 gigs). I just want my Hard Drive back and the computer won't give it to me. So I'll just pull the main HD out. So I will only have 1 Hard Drive in the Computer and I'll just take the image from partition 2 and put it on the first partition which is exactly the same size partition that it came from on the other Hard Drive. Thanks and wish me luck.
Richard
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Richard,
What you are trying to do is typically painless with ATI. I went through extra details and double precautions because of the problems you encountered.
Good luck then!
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I made a System repair disk with Windows 7 and booted into it and it does not reconize the image that Acronis made?
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Verify that:
- c:\ is a primary, active partition
- c:\ contains the following hidden files and folders: boot, bootmgr
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