MBR error after Acronis reimage

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dar124

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I'm hoping someone here can give me some assistance / direction. My desktop PC (in my signature) has been acting a bit weird and taking an extra long time to come out of sleep. It would normally take 1 minute or so to fully wake up, but it's recently been taking a lot longer, 5+ minutes (resuming Windows, logging in, loading all the desktop icons, etc). This made me think that the OS drive (80GB WD) was going bad?? I ran CrystalDisk on the drive and it listed the drive's health status as "caution" and had a high number of uncorrectable sectors, which worried me a bit. I've been wanting to switch to a SSD, and this seemed like a good time to make the switch. I have a SSD (128GB OCZ) from a friend's PC that I was working on. He ended up buying a new PC instead and just let me keep is old one. So I figured that I'd use this drive as a replacement for my OS drive.

I use Acronis True Image 2011 to periodically make back up images of my drives. Yesterday I formatted the SSD and made an image of my desktop OS drive. I then recovered the image to the SSD. But today when I installed the SSD I got an "MBR error, press any key to boot from floppy" error message. I googled that error a bit and there were multiple posts relating to Acronis and XP. One of the fixes was to boot from the XP install disk and run the FIXMBR command. But since I didnt see any posts related to W7 and this error I figured that I'd check here before I just started randomly trying things.

So with all that being said, would booting from the W7 install disk and running FIXMBR work to fix this?? Or would this be some kind of issue because I switched from a disk drive to a SSD?? Did I miss a step when pulling the image back down to the SSD??

Thanks in advance for any assistance
 
Is your boot order correct in BIOS?

Have you ran the windows 7 startup repair?
 
Bootrec /fixmbr is what is used for Windows 7, Vista and 8. You have to boot off the Win7 install disk and select the command prompt at the end. If that does not help, I recommend doing a direct clone from one drive to the other. Also, I second doing the bootup repair first.
 
Verge said:
Is your boot order correct in BIOS?

Have you ran the windows 7 startup repair?
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95% sure boot order is correct. I'll check again when I get home. I havent done the startup repair. Just watned to get a 2nd opinion here first before I started doing things that could potentially make things worse.


ManofGod said:
Bootrec /fixmbr is what is used for Windows 7, Vista and 8. You have to boot off the Win7 install disk and select the command prompt at the end. If that does not help, I recommend doing a direct clone from one drive to the other. Also, I second doing the bootup repair first.
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Awesome!!! I'll give that a go this evening and hopefully that'll fix it.


Thanks again!!!
 
Just a quick update. Booting from the W7 install disk, selecting repair & command prompt, then bootrec.exe /fixmbr fixed the issue. After doing that Windows loaded without any issues. Thanks for the help.


I've still got to do some more testing, but I seem to still have my initial issue of having a hard time waking the PC up from sleep (at least it does boot quicker from the SSD now :D ). When I get a few minutes today I'll have to do a bit of searching online. After the PC goes to sleep I used to be able to hit a key on the keyboard to bring up the Windows logon screen, but now to get to the logon screen I need to press the power button, I'll then get a "Resuming Windows" screen for a bit then the logon screen. Any suggestions off the top of your head to fix this??
 
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