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restore win7 from image
I did a clean install of win7 on my (aging) ThinkPad. No problem. But then I decided to replace the horribly slow hard disk with an SSD. I first made a recovery disk and an image backup (on an external USB hard drive). ThenI installed the new SSD (without difficulty),and rebooted the machine using the recovery disk. Again there was no difficulty. The recovery environment saw the attached USB drive, and the new (blank) c: drive. I chose recover from a system image, but after about 10 seconds, the recovery process quit saying that "no disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found".
The C drive is active. I can get to it from the command prompt. I formatted it (FAT32 which was the only option I had). I tried to copy a file from the recovery DVD to C:, and had no difficulty in doing that. I cannot imagine why the image restore system will not recognize C:
Any ideas?
Thanks,
JAS