cant restore system image


  1. aliyesami
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    cant restore system image


    i had a 750Gb hybrid drive as boot drive and i have a system image of this drive. now that the drive is bad iam trying to restore the system image on to a 1Tb drive but it keeps telling me that no drive is found for the image to be restored.
    what could be the issue ? In BIOS i have put the drive as boot drive and made its partition active .
    I previously had the problem where i was trying to restore the image to a smaller drive but this time i am trying to restore the image to a 1Tb drive which is larger than the original disk of 750Gb.

    thanks
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  3. VistaKing
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    aliyesami

    Try adding the .inf file of the SATA driver or chipset driver . When it can't locate the drive .
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  4. aliyesami
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    what you mean by that can you please explain ?
    is it a known issue that motherboard sometimes recognize the drive and sometimes not?
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  6. VistaKing
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    Take a look at the link below

    Link : System Image Recovery

    Do number 6 .

    Depends . Sometimes you need to use drivers for the installation will see the hard drive .


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    SATA driver below

    http://www.station-drivers.com/telec...ivers.com).exe
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  7. aliyesami
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    ok i will try that
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  8. aliyesami
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    oh wait a sec i just realized that the restore process does see the drive and warns me that it will be formatted. .so then putting the .ini file is not needed right?
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  10. VistaKing
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    The .inf file is only needed if the Restore doesn't see the drive. The inf file is the driver you use so Windows could see the drive.
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