Help! Built new computer - but Acronis won't work.

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New computer brief spec:
2 x HDD (one 640Gb and 1000Gb disc)
Win7 64 Bit

After assembling the computer:
1 - Installed Win7 64Bit onto the 640Gb HDD
2 - Installed all the required hardware drivers
3 - I assumed that I was loading Win7 onto the 640GB HDD and that it was C:
4 - Partitioned the 1000Gb HDD into two partitions: one at 630Gb (for General data, labeled 'DATA') and one at 370Gb (for Acronis HDD images, labelled 'IMAGES')
5 - Installed Acronis True Image Home 2011 on to C:.
6 - Made an image of OS HDD to the partition on the 2nd HDD labelled 'IMAGES'.
7 - Checked the image worked by doing a 'Recovery' from the image made in step 4. Everything worked fine so I proceeded to make a DVD copy of the image and also make a bootable DVD. Checked, and everything still worked ok.
8 - Further images were then made and stored to the IMAGES partition as more programs were installed and each checked along the way.

THE PROBLEM:
Yesterday the computer required recovering back to the very first image. So:

9 - Inserted the Bootable disc into the disk drive and restarted the computer.
10 - The Acronis program loaded up. I clicked recover and located the image file from the DVD drive from disc one of two.
11 - Acronis said, 'This is not the last media' (or something similar), so I removed disc one and inserted disc two.
12 - A similar sort of message appeared, when I clicked 'cancel' twice an error message appeared saying 'read error' (or something similar) to which I choose to ignore after tried browsing and selecting the image file.
13 - After deciding the DVD copy was not working I then managed to recover from the image stored on the 'IMAGE' partition on the 2nd HDD.

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14 - Once back into Win7 I chose to have a look at the 'Disk Manager' where I noticed windows had allocated the following:

DISC 0: 100mb System Reserve / 630Gb DATA partition / 370Gb IMAGE partition

DISC 1: c:/

I would really appreciate it if someone could help me with the following queries:

Why was the 100mb System Reserve on DISC 0, should this not be on the same disc as the OS ?

Should Win7 AND the System Reserve not be be on DISC 0 ?

// I have now formatted both HDD's, unplugged the larger of the two HDD's and am now reinstalling Win7 onto the smaller disc in the hope to try and resolve any complications. Could anyone explain what I did wrong to start with - for example: Should you always install the second HDD after installing Windows on the first and not before?

Thanks for your time.

Thu, 07/14/2011 - 11:51
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It doesn't really matter where the system reserved partition and the system partition is. The Windows DVD probably always put the system reserved partition on disk0, and the system partition on the disk containing the C:\ partition.

The only problem is that it make it just a tad more difficult to make the backups: you absolutely need both the system reserved partition and the system partition for the system to boot, so you need to back them up. So make sure you include both partitions in your backups.

If the disk with the images fail, you won't have a bootable system AND no backup. You will be able to fix the bootable problem this with the Win7 DVD though.

If you really want to fix your situation, simply change the disks (put the C:\ disk so that it becomes disk 0), or remove disk 0, then install Windows 7.

Thu, 07/14/2011 - 15:13
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