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From: The Old Bloke on 13 Apr 2010 04:06
I have Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit.

I use Acronis to clone my boot HD. If I then remove the boot drive
and connect the cloned HD on the same SATA channel, on booting I get
"missing bootmgr".

"Windows repair" fixes this.

Is this normal for Acronis?

Regards
Doug
From: Rob on 13 Apr 2010 04:48
On 13/04/2010 6:06 PM, The Old Bloke wrote:
> I have Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
>
> I use Acronis to clone my boot HD. If I then remove the boot drive
> and connect the cloned HD on the same SATA channel, on booting I get
> "missing bootmgr".
>
> "Windows repair" fixes this.
>
> Is this normal for Acronis?
>
> Regards
> Doug

Just as a matter of interest, others around here are starting to use
Shadow Protect.

http://www.shadowprotect.com/

This did a good job and has various modes, used it last week with W7,
x64 didn't have to Windows repair bit.

r
From: Mike Mackenzie on 13 Apr 2010 07:11
The Old Bloke <le0pard32X(a)Xgmail.com> wrote (in part):

>I have Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
>
>I use Acronis to clone my boot HD. If I then remove the boot drive
>and connect the cloned HD on the same SATA channel, on booting I get
>"missing bootmgr".
>
>"Windows repair" fixes this.
>
>Is this normal for Acronis?

Not in my experience. I have been using Acronis for many years with
no problems. Recently, I had to clone the Sata HDD in my laptop
several times, and each time the cloned drive booted with no hassle.
Normally, when I create or restore an image I use an Acronis recovery
CD as it is totally independent of any installed OS, and it ensures
that nothing that could interfere is running.

Some BIOS's require new/different HDDs to have their settings checked
in the BIOS in order to be recognised by the system. Could this have
been a factor with your problem?


--
Mike Mackenzie (AVCOM Services)
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
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From: The Old Bloke on 13 Apr 2010 19:30
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:11:52 GMT, Mike Mackenzie <mjm(a)my.place> wrote:

>The Old Bloke <le0pard32X(a)Xgmail.com> wrote (in part):
>
>>I have Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
>>
>>I use Acronis to clone my boot HD. If I then remove the boot drive
>>and connect the cloned HD on the same SATA channel, on booting I get
>>"missing bootmgr".
>>
>>"Windows repair" fixes this.
>>
>>Is this normal for Acronis?
>
>Not in my experience. I have been using Acronis for many years with
>no problems. Recently, I had to clone the Sata HDD in my laptop
>several times, and each time the cloned drive booted with no hassle.
>Normally, when I create or restore an image I use an Acronis recovery
>CD as it is totally independent of any installed OS, and it ensures
>that nothing that could interfere is running.
>
>Some BIOS's require new/different HDDs to have their settings checked
>in the BIOS in order to be recognised by the system. Could this have
>been a factor with your problem?

Yep, that could be the problem. I am not using a recovery CD.

Thanks
Doug
From: Will S on 14 Apr 2010 02:12


"The Old Bloke" <le0pard32X(a)Xgmail.com> wrote in message
news:liv9s5lg6sfr8t8nk0j4mtbus9sf5igja6(a)4ax.com...
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:11:52 GMT, Mike Mackenzie <mjm(a)my.place> wrote:
>
>>The Old Bloke <le0pard32X(a)Xgmail.com> wrote (in part):
>>
>>>I have Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
>>>
>>>I use Acronis to clone my boot HD. If I then remove the boot drive
>>>and connect the cloned HD on the same SATA channel, on booting I get
>>>"missing bootmgr".
>>>
>>>"Windows repair" fixes this.
>>>
>>>Is this normal for Acronis?
>>
>>Not in my experience. I have been using Acronis for many years with
>>no problems. Recently, I had to clone the Sata HDD in my laptop
>>several times, and each time the cloned drive booted with no hassle.
>>Normally, when I create or restore an image I use an Acronis recovery
>>CD as it is totally independent of any installed OS, and it ensures
>>that nothing that could interfere is running.
>>
>>Some BIOS's require new/different HDDs to have their settings checked
>>in the BIOS in order to be recognised by the system. Could this have
>>been a factor with your problem?
>
> Yep, that could be the problem. I am not using a recovery CD.
>
> Thanks
> Doug

Win7 changes the boot manager quite a lot from Vista or XP so unless
previous poster can confirm that this is not the case in Win7 I wouldnt do
anything.

For instance dual booting linux ubuntu with Win7 was quite a pain as Ubuntu
didnt recognize I had an operating system ( win7 ) installed on the
computer. I t was a pain to get both working whereas previously it was a
walk in the park.

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