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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.
 
Awesome!!! Just wanted a 2nd opinion before I jumped in and started doing things that could potentially make things worse. Thanks :D
 
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??
 
I won't go into the wisdom of using something other than Acronis, but you might want to make sure the partition was aligned at a 4K boundary when restored. If not, you'll need to do it all again.
 
Valnar said:
I won't go into the wisdom of using something other than Acronis, but you might want to make sure the partition was aligned at a 4K boundary when restored. If not, you'll need to do it all again.
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Yea, I've heard / read bad things about Acronis. But my experience with it (mainly for imaging drives and restoring images) has been good.

I did some searching for "SSD aligned at 4K" and found this article. Thanks for the suggestion Valnar, I didnt realize that was something that a SSD needed. I checked and my SSD seems to be algined correctly.
 
dar124 said:
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.
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So after a few days of searching online, I havent come up with any solutions.


I've checked the sleep settings in Windows.

Made sure that the USB ports are set to not power off during hibernation and to be allowed to "wake" the PC.

I checked in BIOS and didnt see any sleep settings (which I found a bit odd).

I've read a bit about S1 & S3 sleep, but dont see anywhere to check those settings??

I read an article that sometimes DVI connections mess with waking from sleep, so I switched back to a VGA cable, still no luck.

Today I read an article that a faulty power supply might cause issues with hybrid sleep, by not supplying enough current to keep the settings stored in memory during the sleep. I do have an extra power supply at home so if I get a chance this weekend I might switch it out.


Any other thoughts??
 
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