Restored HDD does not boot

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Hello, I have True Image Home 11 and use a Dell D610 laptop running WinXP SP3. I have successfully backed up and restored my system with true image home in the past.

However, I have restored my drive from my latest backup and it does not boot. My system powers up, the bios loads, and I get a flashing cursor in the upper left corner of the screen. Windows does not boot. An old system drive boots just fine on this computer so I am pretty sure it is the restored drive.

I restored the MBR, the major partition and yet the drive will not start up.

Can someone please offer me some advice on how to fix this or how to better diagnose the problem?

Thank you,
George Pappas

Mer, 03/03/2010 - 04:23
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Was the Windows partition restored as an Active partition?

Is there only one hard drive in the laptop? If not, did you verify that the correct drive is still set as the booting drive?

Mer, 03/03/2010 - 05:53
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Hello,

I am almost positive that it was but I will re-check my restore procedure. The disk has three partitions on it; 1) the main disk contents including OS and files, 2) the MBR, 3) a FAT16 small partition.

There is one hard drive in the laptop and it is set in the BIOS as the boot drive with the dell setup utility.

Thank you, I appreciate any other suggestions that you have.

George

Gio, 03/04/2010 - 00:17
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I have a similar problem. I just made a backup of the SSD, boot drive, in my computer. I then installed a new, larger, different brand SSD, but kept everything else the same. The restore ran fine, using the Acronis recovery DVD. However, I cannot boot from the new drive. I put back the old one and it works fine. When I connect the new one via a USB interface, everything is there, but Windows 7 disk manager doesn't think it's bootable. How do I fix this? This is using Acronis TrueImage 2015. The original drive was bootable, and still is when I put it back in. The restored drive does not say Bootable in Disk Manager.

Thanks for your help.

Ven, 01/09/2015 - 22:32