I have read the posts on restoring Win7 partitions using Ghost15 but I am still having problems.
I have 2 identical hard disks -
The running, working one has an E drive of 100meg - Healthy System, Active Pri
and a C Drive - Boot, Pgfile,Crash xxx, Pri (forgot what the xxx was)
I use Ghost 15 to back up both drives on one job, boot from a copy of CD w/drivers, Delete the new drive's partition, and then restore the E drive, followed by the C drive.
After this I do not seem to get a bootable working drive, although it seems both E: & C: drive are in the one partition.
Neither Drive had MBR checked when restoring, although when I checked it for the E drive, it still did not boot.
When you made the backup of the two drives as one job, Ghost would have made a system file (forget the extension now). One thing to try is to delete all partitions on the target drive and then use the option to restore the system vs. restoring individual images. It looks for that system info file ad recreates all the partitions etc. from their constituent images based on the configuration saved when the images were taken.
Philipm - I am pretty sure I used the "Restore Original Disk Signature" option when I restore the E: drive but not when I restored the C drive. Is that the option you were thinking of?
Disk signatures are part of all Windows operating systems that Norton Ghost supports. Disk signatures are required to use the hard drive. Select this option if either of the following situations are true: ■ Your computer's drive letters are atypical (for example, assigned letters other than C, D, E, and so forth). ■ You are restoring a recovery point to a new, empty hard disk.
The system index file you mentioned is .sv2i. It is not created when you do a cold backup though.
The 100MB partition should not have a letter assigned. This is the System Reserved Partition or SRP.
As far as WIndows 7 restore options..
For the SRP
Verify recovery point before restore Partition type : Primary Check for file system errors after recovery Set drive active (for booting OS) Restore original disk signature Restore master boot record
For Win7
Verify recovery point before restore Resize drive after recover (unallocated space only) (ONLY if you want to) Partition type : Primary Check for file system errors after recovery