Restore Problem TI 10

[njrob]

I backed up my full disk (30 GB)onto my Seagate external USB HD and then did an incremental backup subsequently. The backup validated. I am running XP Pro on a Dell Latitude C640. My hard drive has been acting up lately so I took a second 30GB HD and installed in my Dell and ran a restore to test the backup using my Acronis Recovery CD that I burned.

I did not receive any error messages during the restore, which took about 8 hours (running USB 1.1).

The second HD will not boot and I get the following message:

Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
Please check the Windows documentation about hard disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you.

[jonyjoe81]

With windows xp, I always rule out that the drive letters didn't get changed during the restoration.

You can use the demo of "paragon justboot corrector" to boot up your computer and have a look at your registry. Your system drive letter in most cases needs to be c: .

If you can't get paragon justboot corrector to read your hard drive, then it's more of a hardware/motherboard configuration problem.

But I always rule out the software problems first. They are quicker to fix.

[Xpilot]

-{ Quote: "I backed up my full disk (30 GB)onto my Seagate external USB HD and then did an incremental backup subsequently. The backup validated. I am running XP Pro on a Dell Latitude C640. My hard drive has been acting up lately so I took a second 30GB HD and installed in my Dell and ran a restore to test the backup using my Acronis Recovery CD that I burned.

I did not receive any error messages during the restore, which took about 8 hours (running USB 1.1).

The second HD will not boot and I get the following message:

Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
Please check the Windows documentation about hard disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you." }-

When you made your images the whole disk box should have been checked. If it was then when you restored to the new HDD The whole disk and the MBR should have been selected.
Try running the restore again with the MBR selected if it was missed out in the first run.

Xpilot.

[njrob]

Thanks to all.

I went through the New Disk option and reformatted the target drive. Then did another Full Disk Restore and it worked fine. I think there may have already been an OS on the target drive before I restored.

Thank you.