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recover from a ext hard drive on a separate machine

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I removed a hard drive from a dell machine and did a backup to image on my bench machine as drive 2. I replaced the drive and restored the image to a new drive. Installed the new drive in the dell machine and no boot. ATI Home 10.

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Normally speaking,

the best backup image is obtained when the source is in its original boot position.

the best change of a successful restore is if the target disk in its intended boot position before the beginning the restore procedure.

After restore, disconnect source before first bootup following the restore. Restoring from the REscue CD is the preferred method but the other may work.

I made an image of the whole drive and partitions. It should be the same as the original drive just in the second position in the backup.It that true for the restore?

I made an image of the whole drive and partitions. It should be the same as the original drive just in the second position in the backup.It that true for the restore?

The orignal system was intermittently rebooting. This was a precaution to save the data.

If your backup included everything, then restoring the backup will return your system disk back containing the same data as when the backup was created. Intermttent booting sound like a hardware or head issue.

Restoring the backup should be done when booted from the TI Rescue CD.