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Re: hope someone can help with this weird problem

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[not seeing the first post on Ausics so responding to Keithr0]

Keithr0 <nothing.to.see@here.com.au> wrote:
> On 5/01/2025 7:01 pm, MightyMouse wrote:
>> 
>> I had just setup a new PC (software files, etc, ), and it was running 
>> perfectly, so I thought I better do a backup in case something goes 
>> wrong. I used Acronis, and the backup completed successfully, but I 
>> validated it anyway, but when I put the original drive back in the PC, 
>> it wont boot into windows. the message I get is something like "insert 
>> bootable media and press a key".  after much stuffing around I 
>> discovered that the drive will boot if I have the drive I saved the 
>> image to. ???

If you have the drive you saved the image to? What, as opposed to
loaning it to a friend?

>> all I can think is that somehow the boot information got 
>> put onto the backup drive,

Well if you mean it boots when the backup drive is connected, that
might be the case. Circa Windows XP the bootloader could be
reinstalled by booting the the Recovery Console from the XP
installation CD, then running a command to reinstall it ("fixmbr"
or something). It could also need to be done after restoring a
backup to a new drive.

Later Windows might be completely different since I haven't used
much since XP, but you don't say which Windows is installed so for
all we know I could be correct.

> I would have expected that there would be a EFI system partition

Quite likely, in which case there might be something quite
different to the XP-era fix I know.

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Re: hope someone can help with this weird problem Keithr0 <nothing.to.see@here.com.au> - 2025-01-06 13:21 +1000
  Re: hope someone can help with this weird problem not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-01-07 07:35 +1000
  Re: hope someone can help with this weird problem MightyMouse <"squeak!"@thecheesefactory.com> - 2025-01-07 15:10 +1100

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