rollin7 wrote:
Yeah I'd like to know. So still in my confused state; the SRP is not really needed? Then just restore C and go? Thanks again.
R
If you are just recovering a Ghost image because of a virus, messed up registry, malware, etc. then you do not have to overwrite the SRP. In other words just leave it alone. If you are restoring to a new drive, then you would have to restore it or end up not being able to boot (see below).
The SRP was created by default when Windows 7 was installed to unallocated space. It contains the boot files. These boot files can be recreated from the Recovery Environment on your C: drive if needed. It is only necessary to have the SRP if you have Ultimate or Enterprise versions of Windows 7 and use Bitlocker. If you don't use Bitlocker, it is nothing more than a nuisance for us to backup. It also takes up a partition slot. If you create the partitions before installing Windows 7, you do not get the SRP.
If you did not have a backup of the SRP, it wouldn't be the end of the world if you know how to handle it. You can either run a startup repair or do a couple of commands at a command prompt from the startup disc or Ghost SRD disc.
These are the commands..
X:\Windows\System32>CD /D C:\Windows\System32\
C:\Windows\System32>BCDBOOT C:\Windows
This is assuming the restored disk is assigned the letter C: in the recovery environment. This can be done from Diskpart if needed.
One thing that I learned is to NOT restore disk signatures if you are moving partitions around (removing SRP). If you do this WIndows will look for the wrong partition and not boot.
I'll do a whole writeup on how I removed my SRP.
