Re-installing W7 after formatting partion

F2kSel

F2kSel

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Hi, I formatted my win7 partition and installed a disc image made with Macrium Reflect.
However after installing the image the drive won't boot, I think it fails to see it as an OS.

This also happened the last time I put in a new Drive, first time it works great but after formatting it's almost impossible to install an image again.

It's as if it's not formatting as a bootable device, sometimes I also get bootmgr missing.

Any Ideas how to format the drive so that it will take an image?

Cheers Sel.
 
Remove all other hard drives (SATA cable) Only have the drive you want to install to, set bios option to boot from that HD, during 1st boot press F10? and select the USB flash disc. Install W7 allowing it to create partition. Let it reboot it should boot straight from that drive.

Once it's rebooted and in Windows, shut it down, connect all other HD's up. Switch it on, go back into BIOS making sure the OS drive is set to 1st priority, reboot and should boot into windows and detect the new drives, and probably ask to reboot again,
 
That'll install a clean new version of Windows not a previously imaged version.

With Macrium you don't you don't need to format the target drive at all. Any existing partitions will be deleted during the imaging process.

If it doesn't boot afterwards perform a boot repair (Google Windows 7 boot repair for instructions).

Edit: Thinking about it reinstalling Windows from sctractch and then replacing the OS partition from the image might be necessary. It'll depend what was included when the image was created.
 
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Also you need to have an image of the original drive and all its partitions.. If you picked only some partitions that will be where you want wrong
 
Thanks for the replies it would appear I'd made several backups with the same name and the one I thought worked previously was in fact the wrong one.
 
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