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Issue with restoration created with DriveImageXML

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Doc

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Jan 23, 2012, 6:58:12 PM1/23/12
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As a test, I made a compressed backup of my system drive - 320 gig IDE
drive, and then restored that image to a different 320 gig SATA drive.
As I understand it, with DriveImage XML you have to restore to a drive
the same size or larger than the one you imaged.

According to DrimeImage XML the image was created successfully but
after disconnecting the original C drive and leaving only the
supposedly clone SATA drive in the system, I can't get the system to
boot from that drive - get a system disk error message.

Any insights as to why?


Thanks for all assistance.

Char Jackson

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Jan 23, 2012, 9:50:47 PM1/23/12
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:58:12 -0800 (PST), Doc <docsa...@yahoo.com>
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Is it possible that you only backed up the C partition and not the C
drive? If you specified the partition rather than the drive you
probably need to write a boot sector to your cloned drive.

Doc

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Jan 23, 2012, 9:55:56 PM1/23/12
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On Jan 23, 9:50 pm, Char Jackson <n...@none.invalid> wrote:

> Is it possible that you only backed up the C partition and not the C
> drive? If you specified the partition rather than the drive you
> probably need to write a boot sector to your cloned drive.


I don't think so, going through the screens, it doesn't seem to give
an option to back up only the partition - it's pretty straightforward
- copy this drive to this folder. It's supposed to make a clone of
whatever is on the drive.

Just to be sure, how would I verify that the boot sector is there?

Char Jackson

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Jan 24, 2012, 12:29:31 AM1/24/12
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:55:56 -0800 (PST), Doc <docsa...@yahoo.com>
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If it was me, I'd boot from a Windows recovery CD and run fixboot or
fixmbr. I always forget which is the right one.

dadiOH

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Jan 24, 2012, 7:06:27 AM1/24/12
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Yeah. It's not in the same place on the drive cable as the one you backed
up, drive letter is different. The drive ID number might affect it too but
I don't think so.



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Doc

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Jan 25, 2012, 1:21:44 AM1/25/12
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Turns out I had to make the partition "active" in disk manager. It
would be great if they made prominent mention that you're supposed to
do this.


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