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TI 11 fails to restore multi boot win OS to a new hard drive

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I have a triple boot OS system running win 7 64 x, xp pro and vista 64 and have restored the some or all the partitions many times and it ran flawlessly. I installed a new OS drive and proceeded to restore all the the partitions and the MBR being carefully to make sure the partitions were at the location as the original. Use the signature file was also checked. When I tried to boot from the new OS drive the boot halted with MBR not found. Why was the multiboot not restored? TI 11 let me down and I am dead in the water. Yes, I have the latest levels of TI 11. Help!

Ed Baldwin

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Ed,

Use the Windows 7 installation DVD and boot on it. Choose Install, repair computer. Go to a command prompt, type:
- DISKPART
- LIST DISK
- SELECT DISK X (where X is the disk where you have the system, active partition that contains the boot records (let's say it is system reserved)
- LIST PARTITION
- SELECT PARTITION Y (where Y is the system, active partition)
- ACTIVE
- EXIT

Then, type:

- bootrec /fixMBR
- bootrec /fixBoot
- bootrec /scanOS. Verify that all your systems are found
- bootrec /rebuildBCD.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

Pat,

Thank you for your response and information. I was able to repair the boot problem for both WIn 7 and Vista using the repair option on the Win 7 installation disk. My mistake is when I assumed that all the boot modifications were save in the TI 11 backup. Everthing worked fine as long as I used the same hard drive and kept the partitions located in the same location. I could restore partitons and never corrupt the boot. When I changed to a new drive is when I discovered the boot modifications were not saved by TI 11. I am still at a losss why they were not included and no warnings were listed in the documentation that I found.

Thanks again.

ATI is able to restore the information on the disk and the MBR code. Maybe in your case ATI didn't restore the right information because you already had partitioned the disk. We have seem other users with multi-boot restore issues. It is possible that ATI doesn't mark the right partition(s) active when there is a multiboot. Remember that although it is called MBR in ATI, ATI doesn't restore the complete MBR. See here:
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/17793# Post 7