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Unable to Boot after Backup

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This is the first time to write this forum so to start, HI ALL...
I have a HP Pavilion DV8 Laptop (windows 7 64-bit).
Last year I moved from Norton Ghost to Acronis on the recommendation of reviews and such. Got this Laptop April last year and immediately installed acronis true image home, then made a backup of the Hard Drive. The Drive consists of 4 partitions, system - OS - Recovery - HP Tools. It seemed to go fine.
Well, wife caught a virus (even with AVG) and before I knew it destroyed the data on the Drive. So I put in the backup image from the original backup, and everything looked fine. When I removed the acronis boot disk and re-booted, the laptop refused to boot. So I tried it again with the same result, (all the partition backups, including the mbr).
The only way to get the laptop to boot, kind of normally, is to insert a Windows 7 installation disk and let it do a startup repair. It now boots up. However, it always goes to a dark screen asking which windows installation to use, even though there is only one entry which is Windows 7 (Recovered).
So being the perfectionist I am, I re-installed the original setup from the HP disks, which took 3.5 hours! Everything was fine and boot was normal. (no dark screen asking which windows installation to use) Now I made a new backup of this setup and rebooted with acronis. I did a disk restore of all the partitions with and without the MBR checked. And I got the same result... No boot until I did a startup repair from a windows 7 installation disk.

Is there anything anyone can do to help me or do I have to go back to Norton Ghost (which I never had a problem with)??????

Thanks for any help in this......

Will

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Try this:
1. Boot from the TI Rescue CD
2. Use the "Add disk" option and delete the recently restore partitions on the target disk so all space is unallocated.
3. Select the proper disk option backup for restore.
4. Check mark the "disk" option backup to be restored.
5. On target screen, be sure and check mark the "Recover Disk Signature"
6. Review the summary screen to assure all looks correct.
7. After completion, boot with only the original disk attached.

Illustrating select entire disk for restore.

Target Screen.
your disk size will differ but you want to choose the your wife's disk to receive the restore and recover disk signature.