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I'm trying to restore from a .tib file from long ago. This was a backup that was made by backing up the entire disk (MBR, Recovery partition, main partition). When I select the option to restore the entire disk, it then walks me through the process of specifying to what partition it wants me to restore each of the three partitions in the backup. The destination drive only has one partition, which makes me dead in the water.

I then attempted to create three partitions manually by manipulating the slider. I was then able to complete the restore operation. However, then I received the dreaded "BOOTMGR missing" message. I booted off of an Win 7 boot CD and selected to repair. It claimed the repair was successful, but no luck. I reran the repai about 5 times. Looking at the log, I see that the repair process says that the drive has an invalid partition table.

Any thoughts on how to proceed?

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You are trying to resotre an entire hdisk image to another hdisk, yes? Partitions onthe target shold not matter as ATI wil reformat to write the image. Try marking the partitions for backup onthe same order they are in the backup image and accept the default locations and sizes ati offers. If the new hdisk still has extra space, g back and make the C drive bigger.

Thanks for your help.

Yes, I'm trying to restore an entire hdisk image to another hdisk. There are three partitions in the .tib file I'm trying to restore from, and ATI is prompting me to choose destinations for each of these partitions. I tried again, and I created partitions on the target drive in the same order as they were in the .tib file (I accepted the default locations and sizes as you suggested) and allowed the restore to proceed. It proceeded fine, but I get the "BOOTMGR missing" message when I try to boot. I tried running Repair from an install Win7 disk (3 times, as recommended), but I still got the "BOOTMGR missing" message, which means I'm dead in the water....argh!

reboot. check the boot order in the bios. If that doesn't work, one of the window boot experts will have to step in.

Btw, you are restoring to the same machine on which the backup was made?