I made another image and it still wouldnt work and i even tried doing it thru the acronis boot cd and it froze when i pressed proceed..I did the same process on a dell dim3000 desktop and i was able to restore from the TI image i made for that dell pc but not the HP pc..I then decided to try ghost 12 on the hp computer and i was able to restore from a ghost 12 image..It seems acronis as great a program as it is , wont work on certain computers.