ATI Beginner Lost

Perhaps my grasp of the obvious isn't too firm. Can someone figure out where I'm going wrong?

I am replacing the hard drive on a laptop (SMART message tells me it's about to fail). Here's the sequence thus far:
Install and update ATI 8
Create boot disk
Create full image of current hard drive onto external HD connected via USB 2
Power down system
Replace hard drive in laptop
Boot from boot disk created above as part of the install of ATI
Initial Acronis screen appears and then is followed by:
Error message "Unable to load initial ramdisk. Press <Enter> to proceed..."
I press Enter
Second message on next line "Unable to load Linux Kernal. Press <Enter> to reboot..."
I press enter again
Message "Invalid Operating System!"

Any suggestions?

 

For some reason the TI Rescue CD doesn't like your laptop hardware. It could also be that the version you're using is version 8. What model laptop is it?

 

It's a Sony Vaio. In the interim I managed to get it to work. I entered Setup and restored all the default values, booted from the cd and everything went smoothly.

Thanks for your response.