saved image back up

I had two drives one of which was 64bit and the other 32.The 64 drive is kaput but i made a windows backup system image and saved it to my external drive. i now boot to the 32bit drive and have installed another drive.
The questions is can i install the back up 64 bit image to my new drive and if so how?

or i have a w7 64 bit iso file,i have copied it to my usb flash drive how do i make that bootable?
I am runnig a w7 32 bit at the moment but have 2 other drives i could install the 64 operating system to.
If i disconnect the w7 32 bit and boot from cd with iso file on it will this then allow me to install it to the other hard drive?

mcgoo said:

I had two drives one of which was 64bit and the other 32.The 64 drive is kaput but i made a windows backup system image and saved it to my external drive. i now boot to the 32bit drive and have installed another drive.
The questions is can i install the back up 64 bit image to my new drive and if so how?

Post screenshot of disk management please Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image

Do I understand correct, you had a faulty PHYSICAL drive and replaced that drive with a healthy drive? New drive is NOT smaller than faulty drive?

mcgoo said:

or i have a w7 64 bit iso file,i have copied it to my usb flash drive how do i make that bootable?
I am runnig a w7 32 bit at the moment but have 2 other drives i could install the 64 operating system to.
If i disconnect the w7 32 bit and boot from cd with iso file on it will this then allow me to install it to the other hard drive?

Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool to copy the (extact) ISO to USB flash to make it bootable. Of course change BIOS settings to set first boot device as USB

Kaktussoft said:

mcgoo said:

I had two drives one of which was 64bit and the other 32.The 64 drive is kaput but i made a windows backup system image and saved it to my external drive. i now boot to the 32bit drive and have installed another drive.
The questions is can i install the back up 64 bit image to my new drive and if so how?

Post screenshot of disk management please Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image

Do I understand correct, you had a faulty PHYSICAL drive and replaced that drive with a healthy drive? New drive is NOT smaller than faulty drive?

Correct the faulty drive has been replaced with another drive healthy and is not smaller than previous drive.

Win7 system image expects the same partition layout when restoring. Since it's a new drive... the partition layout is different. Windows restore will clean the disk (remove everything) and recreate the disk layout as it was.

Just for clarification origanally i had two drives 64 bit w7 and 32 bit w7.
I had them both bootable and w7 64bit was the one i used.
The drive with 64bit became corrupted.
I then set 32 bit to become the default drive.
I removed the 64 bit drive and replaced it with a 500gb drive.
I now have C drive boots to w7 32 bit and another empty drive.
I have an iso 64bit w7 which i want to install onto the empty drive and make it bootable.
I then hope once this is done to restore a windows backup image i have of my previous 64bit system.

mcgoo said:

Just for clarification origanally i had two drives 64 bit w7 and 32 bit w7.
I had them both bootable and w7 64bit was the one i used.
The drive with 64bit became corrupted.
I then set 32 bit to become the default drive.
I removed the 64 bit drive and replaced it with a 500gb drive.
I now have C drive boots to w7 32 bit and another empty drive.
I have an iso 64bit w7 which i want to install onto the empty drive and make it bootable.
I then hope once this is done to restore a windows backup image i have of my previous 64bit system.

But how did you force to boot win7 32bit or 64bit? Did you simply force bios to boot from drive 1 or 2, or did you have a win7 bootmenu?

Kaktussoft said:

mcgoo said:

Just for clarification origanally i had two drives 64 bit w7 and 32 bit w7.
I had them both bootable and w7 64bit was the one i used.
The drive with 64bit became corrupted.
I then set 32 bit to become the default drive.
I removed the 64 bit drive and replaced it with a 500gb drive.
I now have C drive boots to w7 32 bit and another empty drive.
I have an iso 64bit w7 which i want to install onto the empty drive and make it bootable.
I then hope once this is done to restore a windows backup image i have of my previous 64bit system.

But how did you force to boot win7 32bit or 64bit? Did you simply force bios to boot from drive 1 or 2, or did you have a win7 bootmenu?

msconfig,boot options set default boot and time to show boot options on the screen.

Kaktussoft said:

So win7 64 is still in bootmenu? Delete that entry ... can be done in same msconfig screen.

On external disk.. goto \WindowsImageBackup\<ServerName>\<Backup datetime>
What <guid name>.vhd do you see (1, 2 or 3)? What are the size of vhd files?

i have to go to work and will look at this when im finished,thanks for your imput