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Pri,Act. fix

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OS=W7
current drive 2TB - 100MB, 80GB, 853.4GB, 931.5GB
test drive 1TB - 100MB, 80GB, 853.4GB
I created a backup of my C: drive. 80GB
I then partitioned the test drive using my W7 disk as above so both C: and target = 80GB

I performed a restore to the test drive checking MBR also and telling it to set it active.

It would not boot - BOOTMGR missing.

I used my W7 disk to repair that. All is fine (almost).
The test drive has the system reserve partition set as Pri and the C: partition set as Pri,Act.
the current drive is the opposite.
So when I boot to the test drive the reserved partition is visible.

Two questions:
1. what did I do wrong such that I had to fix the BOOTMGR missing issue?
2. How do I swap those status and make the reserved partition invisible when booting to the test drive.

Extra point question;
the current drive has unreadable errors on 5 sectors. I ignored them. The question is, were just those 5 sectors not copied to the backup, or were the files associated with the bad sectors not copied?

thx

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a) your backup needs do include at a minimum system reserved and C:\system, and ideally all the partitions you would want to restore if the disk died on you,
b) if you restore the backup and you restore all partitions and the MBR+Track0, ATI will mark active the same partition that was active in the image (system reserved)
c) you don't need to prepartition your test disk
d) you can use the Window installation DVD, choose install, repair, launch a command prompt, type
DISKPART
LIST DISK (note the disk number of the partition you want to change: X)
SELECT DISK X
LIST PARTITION (note the partition number that you want to mark active Y)
SELECT PARTITION Y
ACTIVE or INACTIVE
EXIT
e) If you ignored the error, ATI couldn't read the information but continued the backup. There is no real data in the backup. You should run chkdsk /r on each partition you want to backup so that Windows can mark the bad sectors as bad. You will be able to look for file fragments if any and make a decision about whether you need to worry about the screwed up files.