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<blockquote data-quote="VdR" data-source="post: 541245" data-attributes="member: 25818">Thank you guys for the reactions. The discussion is helping me to understand this better.I have done a lot of reading up on the issue. I did meanwhile find out that the MBR is seperate from any of the partitions. But the failure was the missing NTLDR (boot loader). The MBR must have been fine, else the system would not have been able to inform me about the missing boot loader.From what I found out, the boot loader and other boot related files such as boot.ini (which holds the information about where the boot partition is or boot partitions are) are part of the system partition. This diferentiates the system partition from the other partitions. And that's why I beleive that you cannot restore a non-system-partition image to the system partition.The MS terminology of system partition and boot partion is somewhat counter intuitive;The system partition holds the information about booting (and possibly but not mandatory a bootable OS). The information includes (boot.ini) a list of partitons which have a bootable OS installed (boot partitions).The boot partitions hold a bootable OS.Please correct me if I'm wrong.VdR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VdR, post: 541245, member: 25818"] Thank you guys for the reactions. The discussion is helping me to understand this better. I have done a lot of reading up on the issue. I did meanwhile find out that the MBR is seperate from any of the partitions. But the failure was the missing NTLDR (boot loader). The MBR must have been fine, else the system would not have been able to inform me about the missing boot loader. From what I found out, the boot loader and other boot related files such as boot.ini (which holds the information about where the boot partition is or boot partitions are) are part of the system partition. This diferentiates the system partition from the other partitions. And that's why I beleive that you cannot restore a non-system-partition image to the system partition. The MS terminology of system partition and boot partion is somewhat counter intuitive; [INDENT]The system partition holds the information about booting (and possibly but not mandatory a bootable OS). The information includes (boot.ini) a list of partitons which have a bootable OS installed (boot partitions).[/INDENT] [INDENT]The boot partitions hold a bootable OS.[/INDENT] Please correct me if I'm wrong. VdR [/QUOTE]

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