I have back up Image in TIB file, does this include Boot mgr
I see from doing search that Boot mgr is in Reserve partition whatever that means.
I will give my full situation
Background
I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit under Volume License
My OS is installed in C partition on 2 SSD drives in Raid0 format. To save space on my SSD drives I installed all non OS programs into my D partition. I have a 640 GB SATA3 drive divided into 25 GB for D partition and the remainder G partition for my data
I did a full image of C and D to a TIB file
I also have backup if my data from G partition.
For some reason my RAID0 status was failed, so I recreated RAID0 and now I want to get back my Win7 from my TIB file. My D partition seems messed up also
My plan is to restore using my TIB image file
1. I need to use either Fdisk or Partition Magic to recreate and reformat my C, D and G partitions.
2. normally when I do a restore I do not check the MBR box and it seems to work, but from doing a search I am told that I need to restore by checking MBR and I also need the reserve partition to get my boot manager. I hope that is part of my TIB file
My objective is to get back my boot manager and boot rec and all of my Win7, am I on the right tracik. i.e repartition C,D, G, reformat C, D, G, restore C, D from TIB file including check of MBR. Note C partition is same size as before (full size of both SSD drives) but I only know my D partition was about 25GB of my 640GB SATA drive, but I do not have exact size.
If you have done a disk and partition backup including all the partitions on your system disk, you have the right content.
If you restore to a new disk with a different layout, don't include the MBR+track0. Restore your partitions one by one, in the same order you want them on your new disk, or the same order they were before if your just have a new smaller/bigger disk and they were on the same disk.
Whenever you restore partition by partition, ATI will let you resize the partitions if necessary (don't resize any partition except C:\system or any user create partition). If you restore to an SSD, leave a 1MB offset before the first partition, and use partitions with a whole number of MB as size.
Don't attempt to change the drive letters unless you know exactly what you are doing: the recovery CD shows you drive letters that may be different from Windows. Don't try to correct this. Look at the drive labels,