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Hi all,

My Current SSD (60GB) was in need for an upgrade. so I bought a new one.
I backed-up my current SSD as a drive backup on one of my disks.

I removed the old SSD with configuration
- System Reserved (100 MB)
- C:/ Active (OS Win 7) 55,80 GB

I put the new SSD in the same place and put the old SSD in another slot.

Restarted PC and launched Acronis.
Executed a Clone but that just took too long. I don't know what was going on...

so I canceled the clone and decided to do a BACKUP/IMage restore from the back-up I took earlier.

I followed the following guide to the letter:
http://forum.acronis.com/system/files/mvp/user285/guides/tih2012-restor…

so I first restored the
- System Reserved ---> ALL GOOD
- the C:/ drive --> it got another drive letter instead of C:/ but that seemed to be alright since in the guide this is also the case

- last was the MBR & Track 0 to restore but this gave errors all over the place "failed to read from sector 0 of hard disk 1" and so on...
- So i was not able to complete the guide in detail...

I decided to ignore it and reboot PC. Obviously it did not boot...
so I launced windows 7 installer for a repair. but I don't think the installer found anything to repair...

back to Acronis.
I now notice that the letter C:/ has been assigned to one of my other SATA drives inside my case.
I'm currently retrying the steps from the guide...

but I fear I'll get errors again when it's time to restore the MBR & Track 0

Help! what can I do??? :(

many thanks!!!

greets

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ok update:
this time it took the MBR & Track 0

it worked.
the guide then says to reboot
when I do that, no OS or MBR is found and I can only do CTRL-ALT-DEL...

when I look in details to the guide, figure 59 on page 32, it very comparable to mine... the OS drive which is supposed to be C:/ actually has the letter E:/
so why would this boot succesfully ?

I'm stuck :( :(

Ok I think I solved it :)
unplugged all drives except the new SSD

restarted, launched windows 7 repair. Windows Repaired the boot

I'm able to boot back into windows now and my drive is bigger as before so I'm good I believe :)

Yes, during the first reboot after cloning or restoring, you do NOT want Windows to see two identical drives so it is important that ONLY the new replacement be attached. The old OS disk should be left disconnected until the new replacement is working properly.

It would appear you are back to normal with the new disk. Congratulations on your own perseverance.