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Restore Image has partition backwards.

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Due to problems with damage on original disk, the Acronis image copy was somehow damaged. We were backing up the machine and the drive was going bad. It wasn't realized until late into it.

Anyhow, we restored the image and it actually work very well, except for the fact the HP boot/diagnostic partition was now the D: drive and the Windows partition was not the C: drive. Somehow they got restored backward. The HP partition should have no drive letter and be the first.

The other issues is that check disk will not run.

Is there a utility that will let me shift the D: partition where it belongs, leaving the C: where it is and not affect it. I am close to wiping and reinstalling, but wondered if such a thing can be done.

Mike

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Hello MIchael Klick,

Thank you for interest in Acronis Products

You can try Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 it has the ability to change drive letters, hide\unhide partitions. But we cannot guarantee that it will work with systems restored from damaged hardware...

The trial version of Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 is available here.

Thank you.

workaround on broken images - foreword:
The Windows Setup CD (bootable) has a repair function. you can use it in conjunction with manually mounting/copying as described here...

Basic Setup:
Use the BART-PE windows-from-CD or a second HDD with windows on it like in my case.
I run Win-XP and inserted the HDD to recover on another sATA Port.
So basically I can see an empty or damaged 2nd HDD on my XP system.

NOW:
Under XP I mounted the image which was commented "broken"
I formated and created partitions on the 2nd HDD using "ADD HARDDRIVE" from the ACRONIS HOME "extras"-menu.
(if you dont know the size of the partition to be created, just check the mounted image and you can see how big it should be)
You will have an empty HDD now (with partitions in my case)
Now copy ALL (even hidden) files from the mounted drive to the 2nd HDD.

The HDD will not yet boot due to "NTLDR missing".
I shutdown the PC, remove my XP system HDD, and reinstalled my VISTA-recovered-HDD to my primary sATA port.
I inserted the VISTA-Setup-CD.
Reboot the PC with the windows-setup CD.
Select your language and click the 1st INSTALL button. (or the other way around: 1st setup, 2nd language, does not matter)
The important thing is to select "Repair option" or "Reparaturoptionen" in the setup. Do not actually run the whole setup.
The Vista-setup would scan for a already installed system and repaired the HDD first time not correctly.
But I did the boot CD a second time and it repaired the NTLDR.
Now it runs with no problems. I am currently writing this mail from it.
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not shure if I described it a bit complicated, just mail me for Q's.
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I guess you could also install the HDD completely with vista from scratch and afterwards overwrite the whole HDD files with the mounted image files