Macrium Restore

If your C drive is active in e.g. the Computer window or in Disk Management, then you mark the partition as active. But if you have a seperate 100 or 200MB partition that is marked as active (and contains your MBR), then you mark it as primary. You also DO NOT restore the MBR.
I suggest you post a picture of your Disk Management so that I can have a look what's going on. I also suggest you watch my Video tutorial that shows the whole imaging/recovery cycle with Macrium. I draw your special attention to the Warning at the beginning of the tutorial that gives more details regarding the case where C is not the active partition.

1. Go to Start and right click on Computer in the right pane. Here click on "Manage". When the page comes up, click on "Disk Management" in the left pane. Tell me how many partitions are on your disk , what their letters are (or whether they have no letter) and what their size is. I am looking for a small 100 or 200MB partition which is usually the leftmost.
2. If that small partition does not exist and if your C is marked as "Active". Then you mark it as active during the recovery process and also restore the MBR. Else you do not because the small partition has the role as active (Boot) partition and contains the MBR.

DBSMB said:

Thanks again for your replies... Here is what Disk Management is showing;
1st line under 'volume' shows disk w/ no letter 'Healthy (OEM Partition) '39 MB' w/39 MB free
2nd line shows my external HD IOMEGA (G) 'Healthy (Primary Partition) 465.76 GB w/233GB free
3rd line shows OS (C) 'Healthy' (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) 689Gb w/ 626GB free
4th line shows Recovery disk w/ no letter 'Health' (System, Active, Primary Partition 9.12GB w/6.87GB free

Hope this helps,

Thanks

OK, sounds good. Your C is the active (Boot) partition. So during the recovery you mark it as active and restore the MBR - standard procedure.

billberry12 said:

Here is a picture of my disc management page, Can you tell me specifically how to backup an image correctly, and how to restore it correctly. I also have made an image to an external hard drive using Macrium, but I'm not sure if I did it correctly, nor if I could restore it correctly. I would really appreciate you telling me specifically how to do both with my computer based on the attached picture.
Thanks,
Bill

Your situation is different than that of the OP. You do have the little 100MB partition which is the active partition and contains the MBR. During the recovery, you must mark the C partition as Primary (NOT Active) and must NOT restore the MBR.
For a restoration on the same disk, you need not image the little 100MB partition. If, however, your disk fails and you have to recover to a new disk, you will need this little partition. Else you have no MBR. I therefore always suggest to image it only once to a safe place (make a seperate folder for it on your external backup disk). There is no need to image it more than once because the content never changes.

PS: if you have further questions I suggest you start your own thread. Else it will get very confusing on this thread. Besides, it no good practice to highjack someone elses thread. :)