Boot Disk Failure after restore

Ok, maybe I messed up, it's possible.

I did an Image (I think, as I can PLUG it and see all the files) but when I restored it to the new drive(which is larger, and partitioned & formatted already NTFS) it won't boot from it. The files are there, I did the restore while installed in another machine as the D: drive.....

Suggestions?

 

Search here for how to use fixmbr. It might be in one of the "Sticky" posts.

 

Kick me in the JIMMIES!!

It's right there under READ THIS BEFORE POSTING.....

YOUR help is appreciated. I notice YOU'RE in Brandon....I'm in Valrico.

Hasta!

 

Ok, tried the MBR & still does not work. What now?

 

You might have to try Kawecki's Trick. Read to the bottom of this Dan Goodell's article:

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

 

Hello sgoeckner,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

If the workaround suggested by dld does not help then please provide us with the following information:

- What operating system do you use?

- What version and build number of Acronis True Image do you use?

You can find out be going to Help -> About menu in the main program window.

- Have you restored an image of the entire hard drive or an image of a single system partition?

- Describe the way you have restored this image in more detail;

- Have you received any error messages when tried to boot from the new hard drive? What exact error messages? When exactly have you received them?

Please also create Acronis Report in the way described below:

- Download and run Acronis Report Utility;
- Select the "Create Bootable Floppy" option;
- Insert a blank floppy disk in the A: drive and proceed with creation of the bootable floppy;
- Boot the computer having the issue from this diskette and wait for report creation process to finish;
- Collect the report file from the floppy.

Please submit a request for technical support. Attach all the collected files and information to your request along with the step-by-step description of the actions taken before the problem appears and the link to this thread. We will investigate the problem and try to provide you with the solution.

Thank you.
--
Alexey Popov

 

The drive is not the active partition. Boot to a dos and run fdisk and make the drive active, or use Partition magic to do the same.
Jake

 

All-

I reloaded the OS from CD, and transferred his few files and drivers by plugging the image.

I am, however, in the interest of Posterity, going to attempt to duplicate the problem on a spare drive in my own system.

The image was of Win 2000 Pro

More to follow.....

 

OK, I was brave and did Kawecki's Fix on the same drive after re-writing the image on the native machine(the one it belongs in) from the Acronis repair CD with USB support(thats for my USB external drive).

I did not, however, attempt reboot after writing the image, I just re-booted from the Win98 floppy and executed fdisk /mbr.

Question: Win98 only loaded a ramdrive as c:\ as well as 2 cd-rom drives. No error code was returned once the command was executed. Is it likely that the issue was resolved because:

a: rewriting the image with the drive installed as Primary 0
or
b: Kaweckis Fix did it's number

Sorry I did not follow a more scientific approach....

Shaun

 

Hello Shaun,

I would say "b". When using Kawecki's Trick, fdisk /mbr doesn't return an error. It merely overwrites the extra 4 bytes of the Master Boot Record containing the DiskID that WinXP/2K's fixmbr can't reach.

Regards