drive letter confusion when restoring.
I have drive 0 with multiple partitions, windows vista and windows 7 RC. I need to restore the Windows 7 RC partition. After restoring I get the Windows Boot Manager error "the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible" and I suspect it's because of the drive letter.
I backed up a drive image on an external USB drive using the Windows Vista partition, so it has letter C: and the W7 partition had letter G: ( I think). When booted from the W7 partition it sees itself as C: and the Vista partition as G:. But when I use Acronis on Vista to restore the W7 partition it wants to use G: as the drive letter. Obviously I can't use disk manager from Vista to change the W7 partition drive letter to C: since C: is currently assigned to Vista partition.
Am I completely off track about the cause of the connect error?
Also when I restore it defaults to partition type of Primary. Should I be using Logical as the partition type?
Thanks for any help with this.
Michael

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Michael:
Acronis has included routines to repair the Boot Configuration Database (BCD) when an image is restored, but the routines cannot account for every possible dual-boot configuration. They usually work correctly for a single-boot system but often fail for dual-boot installations.
In your setup the boot manager is probably on the Vista partition. You should be able to restore only the Windows 7 partition but the system may need a boot repair the first time that you do this. If you boot from the Windows 7 DVD you should attempt an automatic repair. That will probably fix things.
Primary is probably the correct partition type to use when restoring, unless you know for a fact that you installed Windows 7 to a logical partition. Do not pay any attention to drive letters until the OS is restored. They should sort themselves when the system reboots.
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Thanks for your suggestion . I simply used BCDEDIT.exe to change the device and osdevice parameters in the BCD.
bcdedit /set {default} device partition=g:
bcdedit /set {default} osdevice partition=g:
where default was the identifier for my Win 7 partition and g: was the drive letter assigned to it. Of course I made a backup first using something like bcdedit /export "H:\BCD Backup\BCD My New Boot Entries"
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I prefer editing the BCD manually also. It gives insight into what the problem is/was.
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