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Hi, I have a system with a C:drive (a SSD drive that Windows runs on) a E drive (ordinary hard drive) an external drive used for backups and a CD/DVD drive. The C drive died. My computer supplier (it's less than a year old) told me to extract the drive, I sent it to them, and after a long wait received a replacement. That's now installed and running. I have Windows on it anc can access the files on my other drive. But I cannot get the system image from my external backup to copy back across. I keep getting "The system image restore failed. Error details: The disk that is set as active in Bios is too small to recover the original system disk. Replace the disk with a larger one and retry the restore operation (Ox80042407). But the replacement disk is the same as my original which died. It also wants to reformat my E drive, which is rather worrying, as there was no problem with that. This is after having followed its previous instruction to boot from the Windows Install disk. Desperate for help.
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You can use the basics of the article posted below. Don't extract anything, just see if you can mount/attach and view the contents of each VHD file. A drive letter may or may not be assigned, if it not assign a letter. Son't forget the the show hidden files and folders option may need to be set for each drive (.vhd) you attach. The end of the article shows you how to unattach/unmount a Virtual Hard Disk.
http://www.pagestart.com/win7bckprstvhd10131001.html
J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com
OK please talk me through how to do that.
I'm thinking that one or more of the .VHD files contained inside the WindowsImageBackup folder may be corrupt. One basic test would be to use 'Disk Mangement' to mount each of the .VHD files (as virtual disks) and see if you can browse the contents using Windows Explorer. The System,Reserved .vhd file would be the first one to mount. Set Windows Explorer to view hidden files and folders or you may see an empty drive.
Sorry for the delay in replying but the site is not responding again.
Yes, indeed.
Did you select the smallest of the 3 in step K ?
J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com
