Acronis 2016 restore fail - system will no longer reboot with original disk
I have spent 3 frustrating days trying to get Acronis true image to work - with no success. I backed up the full drive image from my intel pc to transfer to a newer machine, (3 months old), equipped with Gigabyte motherboard GA-HM110 with 2 Tb hard disk, 8 gig ram, win 7 Pro. I checked the verify option for the backup, created backup of 89 gig.
Since I could not successfully transfer the image in earlier attempts, I had rebuillt my new PC system from scratch using win 7 disk, adding applications, I have quite a few I use regularly - it took about 14 hours to get the system fully loaded. Updated with the latest service pack from Microsoft and everything was working OK. I backed up the full image of the newly created system using Acronis 2016. I then removed the hard disk from the machine and put a spare 2 Tb disk in its place, and then attempted to restore from the older PC (as an experiment) using the bootable disk created with Acronis 2016 -the operation completed successfully according to final screen, last step 4. Recovered MBR was OK, rebooted to "BOOTMGR is missing - press CTRL ALT DEL".
With a long sigh, I remove the spare 2 TB disk and replace with the original disk I had removed (so as to avoid a further 14 hours of effort). Rebooted to exactly the same message !
It appears that the bios on the motherboard has been altered - I have to reboot using my WIn 7 disk, wiping out the last two days efforts - any comments, suggestions as to why the restore is failing ?
Is there some internal limit within Acronis that is preventing the restore ? Why would BIOS be altered ?
thanks for your help,
Russell


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Thanks for the quick response - it seems the problem was due to the external USB drive that was still connected to the PC, when the system rebooted it was looking for the boot record on this drive, not the SATA drive. I removed the external drive and both systems now boot.
So now I have the original (freshly composed) drive working and the image transferred from the older system - I really do appreciate your help since it kept me investigating the bios startup settings where I noticed the USB drive as the boot target.
thanks again,
Russell
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