NTLDR is missing after restore with True Image 2009 -Maybe EFI-BIOS-Problem?

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I own a HP625-Notebook which has, so far may informations, an EFI-BIOS. I installed XP-Home (SP3, 32-Bit) on it and made a Backup of Partition "c". All worked fine, including the validation of the Backup.
There are no other OS on the HDD
Now I wanted to restore the Backup on the same Notebook with nothing changed in the Hardware and the Restore-procedere was showed as "succesful".
But, after restart, "NTLDR" was missing. The XP-Installation-Routine can´t find any Windows-System on ´the HDD, so I can´t use the Recovery-Console.

So I googled and found out something like "Acronis Products don´t work on Machines with a EFI-BIOS"
Ist this really so? Or how can I resolve my problem otherwise? I think, nowadays there are more and more Computers with a EFI-BIOS und so it should be possible for a Recovery-Software like Acronis True Image to work on such machines without problems.

Can some tell me, of my problem with the restore is really a problem "EFI-True Image" or where could it be instead?

Thanks for your help and best regards,
Andreas

mar 02/11/2010 - 11:04
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As you could install 32-bit XP on it, it is able to boot in old, BIOS way from an MBR disk and this should be enough for TI 2009 to work.

mar 02/11/2010 - 19:28
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Hm, so I don´t understand, why it does not work.
I still think, that the EFI-BIOS is the problem, because when I want to repair the XP-32-Bit-Installation with the Recovery-Console, The XP-Setup-CD detects the HDD with the XP-Partition only as a Data-Partition, not a XP-System-Partition. So there is no "R"-Function to start the Recovery-Console and I can only choose "Delete the Partition" or "Install XP in the existing Partition".
So I think that XP and Acronis True Image can not detect the Partition as Active and Bootable and this could be an conflict with the EFI-BIOS.
But does anybody know, if ATI can handly this or where could be the problem else?

mer 03/11/2010 - 07:10