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Restore and drive letter issue

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version: True image home 10 from USB key

Drive C: corrupted (by something), but can be booted from in SAFE mode.
Drive E: destination for the restore
Drive F: USB attached drive with .TIB file (full image)

The restore worked, but after the restore the system boots from C: not using the restored information on E:. If I disconnect C:, the system boots to a Windows logo and stalls before a login. What I want to be able to do is to have the restored drive be shown as C: and be able to remove the corrupted drive.

The C: was active during the restore (powered on and known to the system), is that the problem?

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Keep it simple. Remove the defective harddrive; insert new harddrive, then restore to it doing a full diskmode restore. Be sure to name your volumes because you can't rely on the drive leteer assignments during restore-- they very likely might not be the same as when you're running windows.

Also not, if you have a boot disk installed and you create another boot disk, windows will not tolerate that and will mark one as not a boot disk and worse, might actually start using parts of the system on both disk, which can make things pretty wonky.

Thanks -- I think the situation that you describe vis-a-vis "the bootdisk" is what I am experiencing. Will a new restore overwrite the original restore, or do I need do delete it all first?

If you do a full restore, it will overwrite everything-- you should be prompted that the disk contains data and will bd overwirtten and do you want to proceed? Say yes. But be sure you have the right disks--don't go by drive letters.