Problems with macrium Reflect Free V5

I have four drives.
Drive 1 has 3 partitions Empty 59G, Programs 50G, Games 50G
Drive 2 has 1 partition Windows boot 59G
All partition are primary and the first partition on drive 1 and 2 are active.
Drive 3 and 4 are data and media.

I made a backup of my windows boot on drive 2 and restored it to the empty partition on drive 1. No errors. When I selected drive 1 in my bios to boot from, it booted but could not find any programs and my windows configurations were all screwed up. Upon look at drive letter assignments, I noticed that my original windows partition was still C and the new partition I booted from was G. Of course I could not change the designations. Doing the same thing using true image worked fine.

Since I am running Reflect free, I cannot post in the Macrium forums. I am hoping for some help from here.

Len

 

Len,

The issue has nothing to do with Macrium. You broke the first and second rules of cloning...

http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.shtml

The rules apply to Win7 too.

 

Len,

It can be fixed without having to redo the clone.

 

Thanks for the Pointer Brian. Its funny, but when I created an image of my Win7 on disk 2 part 1 using Acronis true image and restored the image to the empty partition on Disk 1 part 1 all the drive letters were fine and the new boot partition showed up as C. Go figure.

Len

 

Len,

Maybe Acronis TI adjusts the MountedDevices key to get around the cloning rules. I know the TeraByte apps can do this. Ghost doesn't.

Have you been able to fix the drive letter assignment? I have a few extra fixes if Method 2 is impractical (no floppy drive).

 

No, I just used True Image and left it at that. I was testing reflect free, but my modus-operendi is to have two OSes installed. my go-to system on part1 of disk1 and my evolving (or new technology) system on part1 of disk2. and i switch by bios selection When the evolving one is ready for prime time, I move it to disk1. So modding the registry is not something I want to do on an ongoing basis. I'll stick with TI for now. But thanks for the help.

Len