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<blockquote data-quote="VdR" data-source="post: 540949" data-attributes="member: 25818">Yes you are probably right, but there must be something else.If I did restore the MBR nothing should have changed since the image came from the same HDD, and hence it should have restored the original MBR. After the restore, NTLDR (the boot loader) was missing. I believe that the problem was that I restored a non-system-partition image (that does not have the boot loader) to the system partition (that must have the boot loader). Strange that Acronis just blindly does that.But that brings up an issue. There is only one system partition. If I want to be able to restore one partition image to another partition neither can be the system partition.So I think I want to set up four partitions now. The first as the system partition to hold only the MBR and the boot files (no operating system) and three others to hold three operating systems and MP installations. Then I can image and restore between those three at will.The three operating systems I want to use as; one with the active MP set up (default boot), one with an image of the first as the standby MP setup in case the first breaks and the third as an experimental MP setup.VdR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VdR, post: 540949, member: 25818"] Yes you are probably right, but there must be something else. If I did restore the MBR nothing should have changed since the image came from the same HDD, and hence it should have restored the original MBR. After the restore, NTLDR (the boot loader) was missing. I believe that the problem was that I restored a non-system-partition image (that does not have the boot loader) to the system partition (that must have the boot loader). Strange that Acronis just blindly does that. But that brings up an issue. There is only one system partition. If I want to be able to restore one partition image to another partition neither can be the system partition. So I think I want to set up four partitions now. The first as the system partition to hold only the MBR and the boot files (no operating system) and three others to hold three operating systems and MP installations. Then I can image and restore between those three at will. The three operating systems I want to use as; one with the active MP set up (default boot), one with an image of the first as the standby MP setup in case the first breaks and the third as an experimental MP setup. VdR [/QUOTE]

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