windows cant find system image when trying to full restore from ext HD

freetvee said:

Thanks Victor. See the other thread-it kind of blew up on me before I could get it started... Windows 7 Installation - Transfer to a New Computer Once I get my original system image back I will try it again!

Right. After you get set up and comfortable doing your imaging/restores by booting to the imaging software CD/DVD/Stick, remember to set sysprep to shutdown upon completion. I think you misread something about the sysprep process you want to do. It should always be set to shut down when tranferring a system, whether via image or HD transfer.
You got into trouble somehow by being in Windows and breaking something. When you do "cold" imaging/restores you can't break Windows.
And it keeps your mind concentrated on that specific task. Works that way for me anyway.
Good luck getting your image restored.

I decided to go through the reinstall boot to windows 7 CD process first, and then loaded my LAN driver. Once I got through that I tried a system recovery first and it found the image this time!?! Thanks for the help once again!