Recovered Drive will not boot up on it's own, has to be selected from boot manager
I used Acronis True Image 2010 to restore my main drive for the first time and have run into a problem. I started the restore in Windows (Vista) and it said it needed to reboot to accomplish the process. I OK'ed the reboot and that's when the problem happened. I have an HP computer and when it rebooted it went into the HP recover mode and wouldn't reboot to Acronis. I used my boot disc to start up Acronis and rocovered from there. I recovered to the unallocated part where my main drive was previously located (it no longer ID'd the main drive as existing on the disc, just showed space where it was).
Once done it again rebooted to the HP recovery mode. I used advanced options and used MS Start Up Repair. It said it could not repair and I think it through another advanced options again and I choose Windows Boot Manager and it gave me the option to start HP recovery mode or to go to Windows Vista (recovered). I chose to boot Vista and I got my recovered disc with everything working just fine.
The problem is it will not boot there on it's own. It now always automatically goes to this boot manager and I have to select to boot to Vista (recovered) or it boots to the HP Recovery Mode and I start the whole process again.
Any solutions to get this booting right to my recovered drive?
Also in the future what do I have to do to avoid this? I assume booting to Acronis to do the recover would be best but is there a way to shut off tyhe HP Recovery Mode or something?

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GroverH,
Thanks for the input. I have separated my hard drive into several drives. I completely restored the main C: drive with this restore. That's all I needed done. My computer had been having some issues since a few recent updates/software installs.
What is the TI Rescue CD?
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Anytime you want or need to restore your system drive, Acronis recommends it be done when booted from the user created TrueImage Rescue/Recovery CD (TI Rescue CD).
You can gain more information regarding its creation and use by clicking on my signature below and select index item #2.
Do you have a full disk backup which includes all your partitions in one backup? Most Vista installation has two partitions and maybe a 3rd for data. The first may be hidden or non-lettered and the second partition is the user and Windows partition. Does your backup include all your partitions?
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OK I have a bootable recovery CD and that's what I ended up using to do this restore after it didn't work starting from windows. The one thing that was different from the boot restore is that when selecting where to restore is that the windows start must have deleted the C: drive and it did not show from teh boot start. So I selected the unallocated space where it was which matched the size of the drive and all
This is a complete full disc backup of all the drives that are on that hard drive.
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Armon,
This is what a typicall Vista installation Disk Management view looks like and I am hoping your would have looked the same (as yours is not available to see).
If your backup includes all partitions, then when you boot from the TI Rescue CD and get the restore screen where you choose what to restore, this is what I am expecting you to see. There will be the smaller oem partition and most likely not have a drive letter; plus you will have your main partition (which may or may not have a correct drive letter); plus the 3rd item listed will be your MBR/Track0. My example below has been sorted so the they appear ini the same sequence as the disk management view in the first picture.
Note, that the disk is checked so all the other items become checked as a result of your checking the disk. Does your restore options look like my example below and have 3 listing?
If yes, then I am suggesting you perform a restore whereby you check mark the disk option to be restored. If on the target selection screen, there is additionally an option (lower left corner) to choose the "Recovery disk signature", then yes, select this recovery option as well.
If your restore view does not have the same items listed, then please describe what you see when looking at the disk restore screen.
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