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Can't restore image of C drive. Can anyone please help?
I made an image of my boot drive just a few weeks ago and now need to restore it. It's all on a local PC, no networks or USB drives involved.. I used Macrium 6 for the backup.
But as so often in the past when I have tried to restore an image (not just with Macrium), the process fails. Only once it has erased the partition in question of course. Macrium 6 takes 40 minutes or so to (apparently) reinstall the image, only to end up with 'Handle is Invalid'. Which to 99% of folks who use a PC means nothing helpful at all. Even after Googling till I am fed up of the whole subject I am no wiser. Lots of questions and answers relating to networks or USB drives or whatever. But I still don;'t know for what reasons this pointless message comes up. And my C drive is now just an unformatted space.
If anyone can explain it to me (and I am far from being a novice with stuff PC!), and why the restore might have failed, I'd be grateful. Even more grateful of course if anyone can help me get the image back a my C drive!
The PC is a multiboot Win7/XP (using EasyBDC). Possible the SSD on which the C drive is, (er, was!) installed could be on the way out, though before Macrium 6 deleted it, I could at least boot into it from cold start. I can boot into Windows XP OK, which is on a different drive.
Thanks for any help with this. Otherwise I'll just have to draw a deep breath and try reinstalling Windows form scratch. (Good job I made an image backup. haha!).