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USB Acronis Restored disk fails to boot when made ide master.

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On booting one of our computers today we received a SMART warning of impending disk failure. The computer is a one drive system.

I performed an Acronis TI Echo backup of that drive immediately (no errors). The person needed to keep using the computer over the next several hours.  In the meantime I did a restore of that backup to another IDE disk connected to my computer by USB, had acronis remove all partitions and create the MBR. There was no problem with restoring, but when I placed the restored drive in the original system, as the IDE master, it fails to boot ?

In theory since it is an image restore there should be no problem doing this. This is the first time I've tried to restore to the drive not in the system I am restoring to. Is there a problem restoring to the drive attached as USB and then booting as Master?  

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There can be problems if the drive geometry is detected differently.

Did you get an error when trying to boot the drive?

Is the computer a desktop or laptop?

Did you do the restore running TI in Windows or when booted to the TI CD?

Drive sizes were different from original 150 to new 240 (I did have Acronis repartition)

I did the restore using Acronis Echo in Windows to the USB

When I booted I just got the bios screen then a blank screen

Both computers are Desktop

Have you verified the jumper on the drive is correct? Some have a Single Drive/Master setting and another Master setting for when a Slave drive is connected.

Make sure the new drive is the booting drive in the BIOS.

You might also try restoring the MBR from the image to the drive again.

What version of Windows is it?

Did you restore the Windows partition as Active?

Actually did this with 2 different drives, both recognized in the bios, but neither would boot.

I am sure the jumpers are correct, in fact I did a restore from the computer using my acronis CD with the same TIB and it worked fine and booted. Does the bios accessing the drive as IDE or SATA make Acronis act differently than if it is USB?

While that solves my immediate problem, I would like to be able to do this in the future without taking the computer down except for replacing the disk. As you know a full restore will take some 20 minutes or longer, whereas replaceing a drive takes only a minute.

I will attempt to do a restoe again this time being sure I make the partition active. Is it better to restore the drive with the MBR by selecting the whole drive with MBR drive or selecting the image then choosing to restore the MBR when prompted to restore another disk, partition?

I attempted to restored from my computer (Windows Vista) to USB, original machine is Windows XP

Actually did this with 2 different drives, both recognized in the bios, but neither would boot.

I am sure the jumpers are correct, in fact I did a restore from the computer using my acronis CD with the same TIB and it worked fine and booted. Does the bios accessing the drive as IDE or SATA make Acronis act differently than if it is USB?

While that solves my immediate problem, I would like to be able to do this in the future without taking the computer down except for replacing the disk. As you know a full restore will take some 20 minutes or longer, whereas replaceing a drive takes only a minute.

I will attempt to do a restoe again this time being sure I make the partition active. Is it better to restore the drive with the MBR by selecting the whole drive with MBR drive or selecting the image then choosing to restore the MBR when prompted to restore another disk, partition?

I attempted to restored from my computer (Windows Vista) to USB, original machine is Windows XP

On some computers, it can make a difference depending on whether the drive is connected via USB or IDE/SATA.

If you're going to restore the MBR anyway or are restoring the entire drive, I prefer to do the Entire Disk Image restore (check the Disk # checkbox) instead of restoring the partition and then the MBR. TI processes them differently.

I did a restore once without explicitly marking the "make the partition active" or whatever box in the restore wizard and it did not boot.