HP G62 will not boot up after Acronis restore

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My hard drive recently crashed. I purchased a new hard drive and reinstalled Windows on it using my recovery cds. I then went to restore my C, D and E and F drives. I selected “Primary” for all of these. Now my computer will not boot up. Was I supposed to choose something other than “Primary” for these drives? The available options are “Active,” “Primary” and “Logical.”

Here is data I was able to view from my Acronis backup about the data stored on my laptop’s hard drive:

NTFS C: 284.8 GB Pri Main drive
Recover D: 13.03 GB Pri Contains Boot / HP / preload / Recovery folders
HP Tools E: 103.3 MB Pri Contains Hewlett-Packard / BIOS / BIOS Update / System Diags folders
MBR and Track 0
System Pri, Act. Contains Boot / System Volume Info. / bootmgr files

If failing to choose “Primary” was the cause of my laptop’s inability to boot up, is there a way to restore my computer to how it was 2 hours ago (before my restoration)? I did not manually create a restoration point. I am not sure if the HP G62 laptops automatically create restore points, but yesterday, two days ago, etc. would also do.

I am using Acronis 11 (version 11).

Thank you

ven 15/03/2013 - 21:23
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I'm a bit confused as to why you installed windows onto the new HD, then recovered the C: partition as well, isn't that where your OS is located? The restoration of the C: partition would put your OS back, so no need to install windows onto it. So, maybe I'm wrong, but assuming C: is the drive with your OS on it, that one should have been selected as 'primary/active', which designates it as your boot drive. That's most likely the cause of your problem, and is relatively easy to fix. I think you can probably use a simple disk partitioning tool (do you happen to have one?) to mark that partition as active, without having to go back and restore the entire partition all over again. If you can't boot and don't already have a partitioning tool, then you would need a second computer to download the partitioning tool (like gParted for example) and make a boot disk. With that you can modify your C: partition to be active without needing to boot up.

If that process isn't possible for you, just go back and restore the C: partition one more time, and this time select 'primary/active' as the partition type.

Edit: saw Grover's comment about your unlettered/unsized System drive, I missed that the first time around because there was no size and letter associated with it like the other partitions. Based on that, what I said earlier may not solve your problem, and might confuse things even further, so hold off on that advice for now.

mer 20/03/2013 - 04:35
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John,
You wrote"
System Pri, Act. Contains Boot / System Volume Info. / bootmgr files

The "Act" listing would indicate that the non-lettered "System" partition is the partition to be marked as ACTIVE.

As Doug has indicated, your fix may be as simple as marking the non-lettered "System" partition to be the ACTIVE partition.
As he stated, you can do this with a freedisk partitioning tool such as Partition Wizard boot CD; or you could use the included "DISKPART" utility to make the change from a command prompt--if accessible; or use the Windows Recovery CD and choose Startup Repair.

Or another option would be to use one of my guides and do another restore as per this link. This guide is based on the new disk being a larger than original disk. This guide is based on using the HP/Compaq as my reference and that model also has the System partition as the ACTIVE partition. If the program tries to set the Drive C as active, overrule the program and make sure the non-lettered "System" partition remains as the ACTIVE partition--as illustrated by by guide.

http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/forum/2009/11/5940/mar1-gh…

As you list the contents of your backup, it appears to have all partitions included so a fresh install of the operating system was not necessary and the backup could have been restored direct to a new blank disk--as per my guide.

Within my guide, if you reproduce figure 8-9-10, then using your data, the figure 10 will illustrate the oroginal/correct sequence of your partitions and will list which partition was the active partition at time of backup.

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