I have following partitions in the acronis image What i believe is while restoring the acronis image i have to rightly select / map the drives to logical or primary appropriately which is why it is not booting in the right order. Selected 3 as primary and made it active. List partition will list all the 3 partitions, I have also tried selecting the the partition from the

I have tried following combination of commands several time but still continue to get the same error. When i insert Win 7 home premium disk and start and click on repair it discovers the windows (Recovered) when i click next i get the recovery screen where i can select the command prompt to manually repair it how ever i continue to get 'Bootmgr is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart' error I was able to recover the image backup that i took from acronis.

I am using windows 7 home premium 64x bit that cam pre installed. Thank you very much for responding to my post. No you start to reinstall apps and of course make a new backup (keeping original backup). If the recovery doesn't work, you should contact Acronis or this forum for help). I also recommend that you actually do a full disk restore at this stage and check it is working properly (if it fails, worst case is you have to reinstall OS from scratch again). If do you decide to reinstall the OS from scratch, then make sure you have a reasonably upto date version of acronis (recommend version 5551), and do a full disk backup immediately to an external drive (it will save time if you have go back to original version). You would obviously lose any 'free applications' that came with the PC but most of these are can be replaced with same or similar from the web often at no cost. In all honesty, you can buy a new W7 or W8 OS for as low as £50, and simply do a complete OS reinstall as you have probably lost all data for the last year anyway (unless you have backed up else where). If Vista or XP, it is probably not really worth trying to recover them (or the Sonysys recovery partition). You do not say what version of windows you are using. If you are lucky, you might be able to recover it that way.

Have you tried booting the laptop and entering the sony recovery facility (sony assist button on more modern vaios but could be f2 or f10 button I think). You do not say what versions of windows you are using, the other two partitions probably relate to that i.e the C drive. It is not a standard partition, and as far as I know acronis recovery should just place an exact copy back from where it started. The sonysys directory is designed to recover the sony back to its factory condition.

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