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I use Acronis 2010 to image my hard drive so I can restore it to an earlier time and this has worked great for years.

But, I need to install a newer hard drive (original is a few years old, so this is a preventive measure), and I've noticed that Acronis does not transfer the boot record when you install a brand new hard drive and try to use the image to restore on a freshly formatted drive.

It will show that the image restoration has been successful and Windows and all my progs are there, but when you try to boot up the computer an error message shows on black screen saying no boot record and it won't boot up.

The way I've handled this in the past is to go ahead and do a new Windows install... and once I'm done, the boot record is of course there at that point, and then I use my Acronis image to restore the drive back how it was and all is good to go.

I was just wondering if there is a way to get the boot record onto a freshly formatted drive without having to actually install Windows, maybe there is a quicker way to do this.

If anybody knows of a way to do this, please let me know thanks!

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Refer to the documentation pages 95 and 96 section 11.1.4. Essentially, the recovery screen third step should present you with the option to include the MBR and disk track 0 with the recovery.

Is that when I'm taking the image of the hard drive... or when I'm restoring the image of the hard drive?

This would be during the restore procedure.

OK, I must have missed that so I'll have top pay closer attention.

Thanks, this will save me alot of time.

You do not indicate which version of Windows is involved???

Assuming that your 2010 backup image is a full and complete backup of all partitions,
check out my signature link item #3, and then inside that link, either item 1 or item 2 will do what you what you want.
Item 2 which is a disk image recovery guide is the easiest and quickest, if its partitions sizings are acceptable.

Using the item 2 Disk imge recovery, when you get to the very last screen during the recovery, the last screen will show you how the partitions will be resized on the new disk. If stated sizes accepable, then click the PROCEED option, otherwise, if partition sizes not acceptable, then clck the CANCEL option and revert to other guide which is the item #1.

Normally, only the Windows partition (+ a DATA partition if one exists) are resized. Any recovery partition is usually left as original sizing.