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TIH 2011 - Full Disk Restore - not bootable

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I have a full disk backup of a HDD. I have a replacement drive. But there seems to be a conflict of sorts. Due to the following:
Asus Laptop has the two partitions, recover, OS, and other(s)?
EUFI boot method
GPT as well.

So, When going through the bootable media menues and selecting the disk method, it sometimes can't read from the USB, failing along the way. Drive is fine, back-up validated.
And sometimes completes, but is not bootable. WHen this happens, ASUS auto recovery wants to take over.

So, in short, I have a good back up, a brand new drive (same manuf. same size, etc.)
I SHOULD be able to point TIH "grab image for here, and put it there, and DONE."
Three steps, done. But it ain't happening, and I'm pissed! This should never take more than a few clicks. and done. Grrrrr

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"So, in short, I have a good back up, a brand new drive (same manuf. same size, etc.)
I SHOULD be able to point TIH "grab image for here, and put it there, and DONE."
Three steps, done."

Very true, but

The TI restore is not capable of putting the partitions back in the same order as original disk if your partition arrangement is like many retail laptops.

As a result of the program restoring partitions back in a different order,

you will need to use the Windows Recovery CD to make your new disk bootable.
This will make your disk bootable but it will not have the same partition arrangement as original.

You can verify your partitions by typing these commands from a command prompt
DISKPART

From the Diskpart command prompt, type
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK 0
LIST PARTITION

Most likely, your new Asus (if Win 8.1) has this from the factory in this order as viewed in Diskpart.

System 100mb
Recovery 900mb (size not sure)
Reserve 128mb
Primary (OS) C
Primary (Data) D
Recovery (Asus Recovery) (maybe 20GB)

I don't have a Windows Recovery CD . It came on the original hard drive itself, as a recovery partition. I have various versions of Windows 7, but no version was recognized to match. And then the Asus recovery kicks in, blocking my way to making the disk bootable.

Now I can mount the back up image, but MS has locked down the "users" directory so I can't legitimately gain access to the Outlook files I need. What good is a mount to me, if I can't read what I need to read.

Done bitching, it's a Win7 machine. home premium. And I collapsed the C & D partitions into one partition, leaving only three. So I would restore this image on my new HDD, if I knew I could get it bootable. how do I do that?

Some Win7 Asus laptops have a maintenance folder where the Win Recovery CD can be created.
You may have to put the original disk back in and make the Win Recovery CD.

or you may find it via the Control Panel/Backups.

Michael Reed wrote:

Now I can mount the back up image, but MS has locked down the "users" directory so I can't legitimately gain access to the Outlook files I need. What good is a mount to me, if I can't read what I need to read.

That can be dealt with. You may follow on-line tutorials to "take ownership" of those files.