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Win 7 OS won't boot after image recovery

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Hi everyone,
I'm running Win 7 64x and I just installed a new motherboard. For some reason the OS had trouble with it and I had to re-install the OS. No problem since I had an image from TI 2011 on an external HD. But after I installed TI 2011 on the clean OS and restored, my OS refused to boot. Here are the solutions I tried to no avail:

WIN 7 installation disk recovery tool/Startup Repair (several times)
Diskpart from command prompt: bootsect /nt60 SYS /mbr
FixMbr
FixBoot
Retrying the restore making sure I've chosen the MBR
Making sure the reserved 100 MB partition is the active designation
Start from the Rescue Disk to restore

Then after all that I received the message: "The boot selection failed because a required device is not accessible"

Any help would be appreciated. Any ideas?

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Jim,

If you don't have the Plus Pack, you cannot restore an older image to a new motherboard, because the hardware is dissimilar. Some drivers have to be installed with Windows.
With the Plus Pack, you have added confidence that your restore might work. You will need the unpacked drivers of your motherboard disk controllers, chipset, etc.
If you get Windows to boot after the Universal Restore, you will still have to work through other driver issues that Windows is supposed to be able to work out when it is online.
You can try a repair install of Windows, and see if it gets you anywhere at that point.

If reinstalling Windows and your apps is an option, definitely go down this path and then restore our content files from the image.