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[dminches]

I had a dreaded hard drive crash and I need to rebuilt my main drive from a saved Ghost image.

I am running Win 7 32 Professional 32 bit.  I have an image saved on an external drive.  There are 2 files there - drive C and system reserved.

When I boot from the recovery disk and select the images to restore it doesn't seem to allow me to select both files.  I can restore the Drive C file with is about 80 GB, but then the restore terminates at the very end with an strange error "reached end of something".  When I reboot I get the error "bootmgr is missing."  I am assuming that this is because I haven't also restored the 2nd Ghost file.

So, my questons are:

1 - Should I be restoring both files?  If so, why is it saying "invalid" when I select the system reserved file?  Do I do them both at the same time?  What options should I select for each file?  Is there are guide for this?

2 - Should I just move forward and repair the boot sector with my Win 7 disc and that will recover my system?

3 - Something else I should be doing?

Thanks.

[DStain]

hi dminches,

If you boot with your SRD again and select "Analyze" and open My computer to find the external drive, select the recovery point and run a "Verify" on both files.

You must prepare your 80 GIG drive and run the "Image Transfer" again but this time select the SRP first and copy into unallocated space. Then run it again and select the main file again into unallocated space and that should boot ok. Have a read of this post  Here   for the necessary steps to take to prepare the drive.

Deric

[dminches]

Thanks for your reply.

I read the reference post.  Those instructions seem to infer that you have a working system which would allow you to get to disk management.  Right now I don't have a working system.  Should I just select Delete when I point to the target drive to make it all unallocated space?

[DStain]

As long as the image files are valid, by all means try it to delete it because that is what you have to do in disk management.

Having said that I have always been able to prepare the target drive on a working system first.

Deric

[dminches]

Ok.  I can try that.  Again, when you say :prepare the drive" you mean to delete everything and end up with 1 large ulallocated space.

[DStain]

Yes that's right

Deric

[Brian_K]

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dminches wrote:

When I reboot I get the error "bootmgr is missing."  

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dminches,

Are you still at this point? The restore has been successful. You can make this HD boot.

[dminches]

Yes.  I haven't done anything else yet.

How do I fix this?  Should I just go to my Win 7 disk and do a startup repair?

[Brian_K]

You are correct as that error implies you havent restored the SRP. But Win7 has been restored. The SRP contains the booting files and is needed for BitLocker. If you aren't using BitLocker you can create booting files in the Win7 partition and run without a SRP. That's how many of us run Win7.

Briefly...

Boot from a Win7 disc
On the Install Windows screen click Next
Repair your computer
Repair and restart
leave the Win7 disk in the tray

Boot from a Win7 disc again
On the Install Windows screen click Next
Repair your computer
dot in Use recovery tools....., Next
Startup Repair
Finish
Restart
remove Win7 disk and boot into Windows

You have to boot from the Win7 disc twice. Success?

[dminches]

Unfortunately, this did not work so I am back to square 1.

I have prepared the target drive on another computer so it is just unallocated space.  However, when I boot in the recovery disk it does not see the drive as a potential target drive.  Does it have to be formatted?  What should I do so Ghost can see it?  Is it a driver issue?