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When restoring the destination drive disappears?

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I'm using Win 7 64 with a quad-core, 16G ram......
Recently I decided to get rid of 250G drive E for a 3TB, so I backed up Drive E, removed the drive and formatted the new drive as Drive E/ GBT instead of MBR.

When I try to restore from my drive E backup the destination drive slowly disappears during the restoration? I mean the drive isn't listed as being there, poof. I looked in Disk Management and the drive is listed as unallocated, but I formatted and named it already before starting the restoration??The backup is 200G so it takes a while to load and when it's done the drive is gone. I have tried three times.
Any suggestions?

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While you can "restore" files for an MBR partition to a GBT, there could be issues when attempting to restore a partition or entire disk to GBT. Why this should cause the drive to disappear is strange; it may have something to do with the partition information being overwritten in a manner inconsistent with GBT. I could understand if you were prevented from restoring, but it seems to allow you to do so but then does not work.

Ian

Update: Just mount the image file (open in Windows explorer or third party file manage such as DirectoryOpus) and copy the files to the new HDD.

Ian,
Thank you, that seems to be working. I normally mount my Blu-ray's so I just copied and pasted all the files 191G.