Operating System not booting after recovery
Hi,
I installed True Image Home and made a backup of my system partition. I intended to clone only the system partition of one old drive onto another drive instead of cloning the whole hard disk. Then I made a Recovery and chose the new drive for the recovery location. Everything worked just fine, but unfortunately the new drive is not booting the operating system.
Did I do something wrong?
TI 2011, Win7 64 bit. I backed up the system partition (including programs and other stuff), the other partition was only for videos and music. Primary/Active was placed. The new drive was connected internally, the old one was disconnected. It's a notebook.
Does Disk Management show the 100MB System Reserved partition on the original drive? If so, that partition would need to be included in the backup/restore process. It would also need to be restored as Primary and Active.
What happens when you try to boot the new drive? Are you getting an error message?
Was the new drive connected internally when you did the restore? Some restores won't work correctly if the drive is connected via USB for the restore.
Does Disk Management show the 100MB System Reserved partition on the original drive? If so, that partition would need to be included in the backup/restore process. It would also need to be restored as Primary and Active.
Yes I did not choose the 100MB System Partition in the backup process. I will give this a try. Thanks.
New problem: After I backed up all required partitions, i cannot make a recovery onto my new drive, it tells me that there is not enough disk space, although the new drive got 500GB free disk space and my old partitions contain about 200GB of data.
What type of restore are you trying to do? Are you trying to restore it as an Entire Disk Image (everything at once)?
Try restoring the System Reserved partition and then the Windows partition. Then restore the MBR and Track 0 (if possible).