Want System Restore to format my backup disk. It's bad.

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Windows backup and restore...

I had a hardware failure on my C: drive.

I had a backup disk in the machine.

I installed a new hard drive.

I put the recovery disk and went to the image of system restore from another location.

I chose my last system image, and told me that I tried to restore to the backup media. That's news to me. I tried to restore to C: and the backup drive was m: (I have a usb card reader into the system). It would be nice to restore my system, but I couldn't go any further.

I tried to install Windows 7 from the original media. This facility went well. The machine starts, but all my programs were gone. I ' don't know if I can reinstall the MS office and Adobe products, because they have a limited number of facilities. Not to mentions, it takes a few days to collect all the drivers and Setup etc.

With the new installation of Windows 7, I tried to restore from a different system image. I found my old image (s) and when I tried to restore, I was told that I was running the disk of should be formatted, and I have to run from the installation disk or recovery disk. I have tired them both, and I got the same error, I had previously.

I looked in the BIOS and SATA configuration has been set to AHCI. That's what I want, so I can external SATA drives hot pluggable. Just for thorough, I tried to upgrade the BIOS to IDE. It's a step to go. So, everything is back to AHCI.

Finally and above all, when Windows starts, it is the new system that I installed it, disk management displays my C: driver because roll most of the 1 time and at least once he appeared as drive 0. I'm sure this is drive 0, I unplugged each drive and tested that each player was during the installation with the BIOS. Why change the designation of the pilot?

Includes any body what happens to hear. It would be nice to recover my system, I save a few days and a lot of begging for authorization codes. But more importantly, I have need to have confidence that I can indeed restore my system when I need to. I did restore on other machines and the recovery rate of file. I think it is my first restoration of the system on Windows 7. The last of them was Vista.

Help, please.

Windows 7 installation of imagery is very basic and rather whimsical. If you need good features, then you need to install a third-party product such as Acronis image. One of its limitations is that drive target for the restore process must be at least as large as the original source disk. If it isn't then the restore process will introduce you to it.

There is no need to go begging for authorization codes. MS Office (and other well-known software) relies on a hardware "signature" when you save it. If the signature is the same as previously (for example due to a change of disc) then you don't have problem. If it is very different (for example because of a new motherboard) then you will need to ring Microsoft and explain the situation.

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