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"A REQUIRED DEVICE ISN'T CONNECTED OR CAN'T BE ACCESSED" after recovering with ATI 2014 in Windows 8!

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First of all, I was using ATI 2013 on my Windows 7 for a long time and never faced any problems. Recently I've moved to Windows 8 also brought a newer version of ATI 2014. Like before I created a backup of two partitions, One for my 100GB 'C:' drive & another one for 'System Reserved' which is 100MB. When I tried to restore the backups in the same drive I noticed a strange message showing 'There is insufficient space on the drive' although my backup was only 18GB (after extract) and the partition size was 100GB. I tried to restore the backup using boot cd and saw that there is a MBR & Track 0 partition (which I never selected during my backup process). After a successful restore (with MBR & Track 0 selected) I discovered that my system isn't booting and showing an error message "A REQUIRED DEVICE ISN'T CONNECTED OR CAN'T BE ACCESSED". When I used the boot cd again is shows "NO RAID DISK" although I can see the partitions (while browsing the backup). I tried to restore the same backup again and again (even tried restoring MBR & Track 0 after partition restore) but still no luck. I'm totally confused now!!! Please Help!!!

Note:
- I'm doing backup and restore on the same HDD

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Prokash,

When you restore, do you get the option to recover the complete disk or only individual partitions?

The insufficient boot error sometimes appears if TI is trying to place the main partition where the system reserved partition is. Incidentally, I recommend selecting the complete disk to make the image rather than the partition option.

Do you have other hidden partitions on the disk and is your system a UEFI with a UEFI folder on it?

If your recovery CD booted your system correctly the first time, I can't work out why it won't boot your system now unless you have a UEFI system that has attempted to add the recovery CD into its device list. Check either the firmware or BIOS and make sure your boot sequence is as you last had it and the boot order priority.

Thanks a lot for the reply! I tried both complete disk & individual partition recovery. I don't have any hidden partition & I also formatted C: and System Reserved Partition before second try after boot failure. My boot sequence is correct too. I'm not sure about the UEFI folder but I found that UEFI was disabled by default in boot settings.

One more thing I forgot to mention is, I had duel boot with Win 8 & Backtrack Linux. I made separated partition for boot loader then I added the Linux boot with Easy BCD software.