albator Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 (edited) Hi,I have a dual boot. On one Hardrive Xp is installed and on another windows 7. It work fine, but If I use my Acronis True image restore CDto restore XP, it break my windows 7 installation. I was able to fix it withe the windows 7 repair cd.How can I prevent this from happening next time ?Maybye this issue is related to the mbr of the first drive ? Edited June 22, 2010 by albator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Yes it is related to the restore of the mbr. When you use acronis to restore your xp partition, you should only restore the partition not the mbr and don't modify the active flag on the restored partition if it wasn't before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albator Posted June 22, 2010 Author Share Posted June 22, 2010 Thank for your help, I will try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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