Recovering a Windows 7 unbootable system drive & migrating the OS to an SSD drive

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Hello, I think this question might be answered in this forum but I can't seem to find an answer by searching the forum. I registered the trial version of Backup & Recovery to do a few tasks, they are, in order of urgency: recover an unbootable Win 7 system drive, migrate the Win 7 OS to a new SSD system drive, and keep backups of the new system drive that are recoverable both for files/directories and the entire drive image.

1) Recover my Win 7 system hard drive that is now unbootable (WD Velociraptor 80Gb). What I did was try to migrate the OS to a new SSD drive with other backup and recovery software (their support is unresponsive so I am forced to abandon the software). I made a bit-by-bit image of the system drive (or so I thought) on an external USB 3.0 drive (3Tb Seagate GoFlex).

Note: I installed Acronis Backup & Recovery to and I am now operating under Windows XP SP3 which is installed on a the original hard drive that came with the PC (150 Gb WD Raptor in a Dell XPS720). I have a dual-boot system that can boot into either XP on the original drive or Win 7 on the second drive.

I quick formatted the new SSD drive under Win 7, then I tried to migrate the image to a new SSD drive (OCZ Vertex 2 120Gb) from within Win 7 on the system drive, and at some point the operation failed and I had to reboot the system drive. It was now unbootable and after hours of searching and trying to recover the system drive I have had no luck. From what I can tell the boot directory has been removed from the system drive (I have given up trying to find out why this happened). I took some advice from the Experts Exchange website and am trying Backup & Recover 11 to get this accomplished.

This may or may not be important but I cannot even see the unbootable Win 7 drive when I boot up in the Win 7 recovery tool unless the XP drive is enabled AND the new SSD is disconnected.

2). As stated above, I would like to migrate the OS to the new SSD drive. Whether it has been recovered and the system drive is now bootable or not is irrelevant - I don't care about the Win 7 OS on the second drive, but I do want to use it as a storage drive (in other words mount the drive to access just the data on it). I can see and access the Win 7 system drive under XP so that is not an issue. Also, I can recover the system drive and migrate the OS to the new drive or I can just restore the OS to the SSD drive and not have the Win 7 drive bootable (see above).

It is important to note that I installed the trial version under the XP system and I need to know that I can uninstall/reinstall it on the Win 7 drive if I can recover it as a system drive. Or, I suppose it might be irrelevant if I can recover & migrate the Win 7 drive from the XP drive without needing to boot into the Win 7 drive ever again.

3) I want to make sure that I can make a bit-by-bit image of the new Win 7 SSD system drive to the external USB drive such that the image can be used to recover the entire OS to the SSD drive or just to recover individual files/folders.

Whew, that was probably TMI!

So, can someone guide me how to use the software to do at least the first 2 items? I have no problem buying the license if I need it to migrate the Win 7 OS to the new SSD drive, but I want to make damned sure that I can do this since i have been burned by other software trial versions (crippleware that can't restore anything) that promise to do the same thing only to find out that it cannot after I paid for the trial version.

It would be very helpful to try this ASAP since I am an independent consultant and time is money, I have lost a lot of time this past week, and besides consultants don't get vacations ;(

You can do me a huge favor and email me at tim_orerockon (gobbledegook inserted here for the spammers) at yahell com so I can get started ASAP! (ignore this if the forum notifies me of replies to my posts; I am not sure yet whether that happens)

ven 24/12/2010 - 15:50
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Tim,

Can you confirm that you are using True Image 2011? Acronis Backup and Recovery is ABR10 they operate differently so it is important to know which one is being dealt with.

If you have a spare drive, my inclination would be to first make an image of the old Win 7 drive which I'm assuming is still bootable.

If your system dual boots and the XP menu system has the Win 7 entry listed or the Win7 menu lists the XP menu item as 'Old Windows' or similar your problem is that the W7 boot files are not where W7 hopes they'll be.

Depending on how W7 was installed depends on whether no matter how you 'copy' the W7 drive you may need access to a W7 install DVD or a W7 Recovery CD to put the boot files back where they belong.

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