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Make Disk Bootable after Recovery of Partition

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Hi there,

 

I have some trouble, to get a disc bootable again, after recovering the partition.

 

Friend of mine, did backups of his old PC (still one XP, without Internet Access - has some pretty olf software), but instead of backup the whole disk, he only choose the C: Partition - at least I guess it happened like that.

The problem is, if i want to do a recovery of the whole disc and I choose this backup, it always says this file is not usable for that (only have the german version sorry) - I can only use the recovery option for files and folders.

So I did this - and of course the disc wasn't bootable after the recovery. 

I did try boot from Windows XP CD - into the Recovery Console and tried Fixboot and Fixmbr - Fixboot did not work. So the Drive still wasn't bootable. 

Next step I wanted to try was one XP Repair Installation, but the "Installation" wasn't recognized.

 

So I did a fresh install of XP - tried to recover the backupfiles, with override Option enabled - XP was bootable, but still not all Software and Drivers and Settings were correctly recovered.

 

Now, does anyone have some ideas what else to do (besides of upgrading)?

 

Any Ideas appreciated.

 

regards

Enrico

 

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Enrico, welcome to these public User Forums.

From your description, it sounds like the backup made of drive C: on the old XP computer was made using only Files & Folders, and as such it will never give you a bootable XP system, as this will not include many critical system files or settings due to locking by the system.

Only a full disk backup of the partitions can be used for any OS recovery.

Unfortunately, it looks like a clean install of Windows XP will be needed here.  You should not restore back any system files or folders from the backup image, only your user data, documents etc.