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Restoring a system disk

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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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Hello jaroslaw r,

Could you please specify the exact name of the product you are using to restore the old image. I'd recommend first of all to check the troubleshooting steps from the following article, try to validate and mount the image.

Thank you,