Restoring a system disk
Hi,
I need help - I have an old image of my system disk drive with Win7 or XP (not even sure), it was a Raptor (high speed) hard disk. Unfortunately it died lately, so I want to restore the image on another hard disk while making it bootable (so I do not have to reinstall everything).
For an unknown reason it does not work, no matter if I select MBR partition to restore or only the files, no luck, after restoring when I try to boot the BIOS always prompts "no system found/not a system disk". No other hardware components were changed since the backup was made. I tried to restore it using another computer and connecting the new disk as an additional drive.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there any way to check if the backup that was made 2-3 years ago is correct in terms of the system/being bootable? Or would the restoring of a system disk work only on exactly the same disk for some reason?
The only option I have left is to install OS, install Acronis, while booting enter Acronis and try to restore again, but I doubt that would work seeing as what I have done until now did not help.

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