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When restoring TI changes the driver letters of the System Reserved to C (originally had no driver letter) and the OS partition to D (originally was C). When completed, system cannot boot because no OS is being found. Restoring MBR did not help.

Ran Acronis Universal Boot. Says no OS found.

Any ideas?

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What steps do you take when you restore? You mention Universal Restore, are you restoring to some other hardware?

You can correct the drive letters by booting on the Windows installation DVD, running a command prompt, and using diskpart, but there is a possibility that other things went wrong.

Simply tried to restore the OS from the boot media. Seems to restore the image correctly but does not find the OS when rebooting. Tried rebuilding the MBR. Nothing works. Very frustrating. This should be and easy process. Been working on this for 2 days now.

 

Finally got the backup image to install and boot. Had to reinstall Windows 10 first then run the boot disk. What a freaking hassle!! Ran Norton Ghost for years without ever dealing with this kind of nonsense.

I can only imagine that not all necessary disk information was included in the backup, or there was a change in the hardware setup.

Make sure you do an entire PC backup, or that you select the system disk at the disk level to include all hidden partitions in your backup.

Do you have a legacy BIOS/MBR set up or a UEFI/GPT one?