Trying to recover after MOBO and PS failed
This may be a bit winded;
Basically I am starting with a new chasse, MOBO, & PS after a MOBO meltdown. About 8 months ago I down loaded a trial of True Image to run as a test. I backup up my 3 drives ( 2 IDE 1 SATA) to a 1TB Passport USB drive. That was about as much as I could do with a trial copy. Yesterday I purchased a 3 user premium version of True Image. My current status after assembling the new system with the old peripherals is I have a NON bootable system with a "NO OS" message. There is a possibility that the 2 IDE hard drives were set up in a raid 0 configuration. The new motherboard does not support RAID to the best of my knowledge. It also did not have IDE support so I am using a PCI-IDE controller card non raid. I do have a recovery CD for the true image files of drive C:,D:,E: created 8 months ago when I ran the trial. I can boot it up, but, because of it being a trial it will not restore even thought it sees the image files on the USB-Passport drive.
I am running win 7. My goal is to either get windows to see the 2 IDE hard drives correctly to start to boot or copy all the image files to a new 1 TB internal SATA drive and boot up. I don't expect windows will run because I have replaced the MOBO however my hope is that at some point it will startup and ask for a new activation code. I have ordered a IDE-raid card to check out if that is why windows won't boot. If I can get all my old drives to the new 1TB and save my programs and files I will be a true believer of true image.
Any ideas or comments would be greatly appreciated. Should/would/could/Will this work?


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In addition to what Enchantech has said, if your previous system wasn't set up as a RAID, other causes of your error message would be.
The disk has not been made Active when the image was restored - you need either an offline disk utility or a WindowsPE based media to boot the PC so you can make the disk active.
The BCD has an absolute path to the OS booting files which is no longer is correct on restore, which requires a rebuild of the BCD. This would seem to be less likely as you haven't changed disks.
If you did have RAID enabled previously, expect to see a JRAID blue screen of death message the first time the OS manages to boot. Subsequent rebooting should get you past that error message, which will then allow you to either uninstall the RAID driver or manually play with registry (not recommended).
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