Issue with restoration created with DriveImageXML

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As a test, I made a compressed backup of my system drive - 320 gig IDE
drive, and then restored that image to a different 320 gig SATA drive.
As I understand it, with DriveImage XML you have to restore to a drive
the same size or larger than the one you imaged.

According to DrimeImage XML the image was created successfully but
after disconnecting the original C drive and leaving only the
supposedly clone SATA drive in the system, I can't get the system to
boot from that drive - get a system disk error message.

Any insights as to why?


Thanks for all assistance.
 
As a test, I made a compressed backup of my system drive - 320 gig IDE
drive, and then restored that image to a different 320 gig SATA drive.
As I understand it, with DriveImage XML you have to restore to a drive
the same size or larger than the one you imaged.

According to DrimeImage XML the image was created successfully but
after disconnecting the original C drive and leaving only the
supposedly clone SATA drive in the system, I can't get the system to
boot from that drive - get a system disk error message.

Any insights as to why?
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Is it possible that you only backed up the C partition and not the C
drive? If you specified the partition rather than the drive you
probably need to write a boot sector to your cloned drive.
 
Is it possible that you only backed up the C partition and not the C
drive? If you specified the partition rather than the drive you
probably need to write a boot sector to your cloned drive.
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I don't think so, going through the screens, it doesn't seem to give
an option to back up only the partition - it's pretty straightforward
- copy this drive to this folder. It's supposed to make a clone of
whatever is on the drive.

Just to be sure, how would I verify that the boot sector is there?
 
I don't think so, going through the screens, it doesn't seem to give
an option to back up only the partition - it's pretty straightforward
- copy this drive to this folder. It's supposed to make a clone of
whatever is on the drive.

Just to be sure, how would I verify that the boot sector is there?
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If it was me, I'd boot from a Windows recovery CD and run fixboot or
fixmbr. I always forget which is the right one.
 
Doc said:
As a test, I made a compressed backup of my system drive - 320 gig IDE
drive, and then restored that image to a different 320 gig SATA drive.
As I understand it, with DriveImage XML you have to restore to a drive
the same size or larger than the one you imaged.

According to DrimeImage XML the image was created successfully but
after disconnecting the original C drive and leaving only the
supposedly clone SATA drive in the system, I can't get the system to
boot from that drive - get a system disk error message.

Any insights as to why?
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Yeah. It's not in the same place on the drive cable as the one you backed
up, drive letter is different. The drive ID number might affect it too but
I don't think so.



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Turns out I had to make the partition "active" in disk manager. It
would be great if they made prominent mention that you're supposed to
do this.
 
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