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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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(I replied some hours ago but the post has vanished) I was using Acronis on the C drive rather than the recovery CD. When I used the recovery CD the wizard ran and I could see what you meant. The system reserved bit was marked as active. Same result (failed) when I tried the recovery.
OK, I was running it from the Acronis on the C drive rather than from the CD version which was why I didn't see the wizard. Have now run it from bootable CD. System Reserved bit is marked as primary active (it's calling it partition C) and is being restored to the System Reserved part of my Internal HD drive (which I call E,it calls disk 3). The next part (which it calls partition D) imarked as primary but not active and is being recovered to the Unallocated part of my internal drive. The third part, (the image of the data which was on my internal drive, and is now shoved further along in my internal drive) is not selected for restoration. I check the summary and click proceed. After a minute I get the Recover Operation Failed popup. Tried this twice.
During the recovery process, more specifically the "Recovery Wizard" window(s), in the 'Required Steps' list (Blue background with white text) you will see the step immediately after the 'What to recover' step is a step named "Settings of Partition 1-1" (left side of the recovery wizard window), on the right side (White background/Blue text "Specify recovery ... ) titled "Specify recovery settings of Partition 1-1 (Partition 1-1 is the System,Reserved partition) you will see the following options (Partition location, Partition Type and Partition size).
The second option (Partition type) should read "Pirmary, Mark the partition as active", if it does then no action is required on your part, that is to say there is no need to select the 'Change default' option. Therefore the System,Reserved partition is already set to be marked as the 'Active' partition during the restore process. So all you need to do at this point in the 'Recovery Wizard' is click the 'Next' button and check that the 'Settings of Partition C' are correct.
Note: At the begining of recovery process the recovery wizard required steps are: 'Archive Selection' (where the Image Backup is located), 'Recovery method' (set to Recover whole disks and partitions), and 'What to recover' (place check marks in the NTFS (C:) and NTFS (System Reserved)
J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com
OK, I reinstalled Windows again - this time it's complaining about not being verified and being a "not genuine" copy. I reinstalled Acronis, and did the conversion (of the middle one of the three Windows image backups). I reinstalled Partition wizard. I reconnected my E internal drive. I adjusted the partition to make 150gb unallocated space at the start of it. I used Acronis to try the restore. It asks me what I want to restore: the system reserved bit, the "C:" part, or the "D". I tried just restoring the system reserved bit. It worked, but then the E drive failed to boot Windows. Then I remembered that that should be the C part, so I ran Acronis again, restoring the system reserved bit to the system reserved bit, and the C part to the unallocated space. I got the message "Operation has failed" from Acronis. No further detail. I tried it twice. I do not undestand the part in #7 of your instructions "the small 100mb system reserved partition ... marked as the active partition during the image restore". I don't see where (on which screen) there is any marking of the partitions as active or inactive.
Since the Windows install on the SSD drive is not what you plan to keep, just reinstall Windows and then install Acronis again.
The other option that may work is use a "System Restore point' with a date prior to when you installed Acronis and then see if you can run the trial.
J W Stuart
