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Acronis 2013 - SSD no longer booting after restore

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I could use some help. I typically do a Disk Backup (not partion mode) of SSD drive about every 2 weeks. When I would have a I simply rebooted from my Acronis Repair Disk, restored from a prior backups, shutdown, and then powered up and I was back into Windows. However, yesterday all that failed. I received a Bootmgr was missing after changing a data drive which was befuddling in itself. So I used the Windows Repair disk and but that was unsuccessful. I kept getting the same Bootmgr missing message. I then went the route of restoring from a backup (Disk Recovery) using my Acronis Bootable Media Disk. I tried two prior backups but each one getting the missing bootmgr after. Finally, I retried the Windows Repair Disk and after two repair attempts voila, I was back in Windows. Can anyone offer any insight into why this situation worked differently than prior restores that booted up fine after them? I did a backup this morning and double checked prior that I was using the same backup option for the ones that worked fine for restores in the past. The only thing I noticed was not checked was "Make this media bootable" under "Destination". But, even if I wanted to select it it was grayed out. I did make sure that when I did the restore I selected C for the drive for the MBR and selected the "signature" box as well. I would appreciate any help on this mystery, at least it is to me. Thank you in advance for your help.

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Don't know what went wrong but remember
the disk to receive the mbr and recover signature is the disk receiving the restore.
Don't use drive letters for matching as the CD is Linux and the drive letters may be assigned to different partitions as compared to Windows lettering. Match to partition volume names.

If you get that error again, recheck the bios to make sure the correct boot disk is checked--even if you have only the one,
make sure it is the one selected.

If your SSD drive C does not have a volume name, name it now. Maybe such as
Win7-64_C