Restore partition to different location

[YesAndNo]

Hello,
Trying to restore a partition to a different location on the disk. If I restore the whole drive, no problem but I have an annoying gap between partitions I want to get rid of. I don't want to resize partitions, just want to restore at start of free space, aligned to 1MB. It doesn't boot when I do this.
What settings are necessary for this please? I'm assuming the MBR or partition table needs to be updated or something but I don't know for sure.

Partitions are System Reserved with the boot files and Windows 7. Later will be adding others.

I'm using version 3.24. I didn't use simple mode when backing up, maybe I should have.
Thanks for any help.

EDIT: It's old style MBR in case that's relevant.
Thanks.

[TeraByte Support]

remove gaps, typically combined with scale to fit.


"YesAndNo" wrote in message news:15951@public.image...

Hello,
Trying to restore a partition to a different location on the disk. If I
restore the whole drive, no problem but I have an annoying gap between
partitions I want to get rid of. I don't want to resize partitions, just
want to restore at start of free space, aligned to 1MB. It doesn't boot when
I do this.
What settings are necessary for this please? I'm assuming the MBR or
partition table needs to be updated or something but I don't know for sure.

Partitions are System Reserved with the boot files and Windows 7. Later will
be adding others.

I'm using version 3.24. I didn't use simple mode when backing up, maybe I
should have.
Thanks for any help.

EDIT: It's old style MBR in case that's relevant.
Thanks.

[YesAndNo]

Thanks, worked eventually after changing some settings.

How can you restore default values for all settings in IFW? ifw.ini only has my licence and phylock settings. Couldn't find anything Terabyte related in AppData\Roaming either.

Thanks again.

[TeraByte Support(PP)]

If the settings aren't in the INI file then the defaults would be used. The file is usually pretty empty (as you describe). Depending on install options it may be configured to use VSS, for example:

[Options]
PHYLockUseReg=0
[PHYLock_Options]
UseVSS=1

[LICENSE]
ProductKey=xxxxx
User=xxxxx

[YesAndNo]

Great, thanks a lot.
Just one more thing for future reference: If you move or restore a partition to a different location and it doesn't boot because the wrong settings were used, where is the problem, is it the BCD? If so, couldn't I boot into WinPE and edit it with a BCD editor like bootice?

Thanks for your help.

[TeraByte Support(PP)]

Often times it's incorrect references in the BCD. However, there can be other factors involved too. In the restore you describe you would normally use the "Update Boot Partition" option when restoring the Windows partition (your booting files are on the System Reserved partition). If you're trying to duplicate the partition then other options would be needed since you wouldn't want to break the original.

You can use BCDEDIT in WinPE/RE (or TBWinRE/PE) or the BCD Edit feature of Partition Work (BIU, BIBM, IFL GUI). For third party programs, they should work if they're portable and support the architecture (x64 won't run x86 programs).

[YesAndNo]

Sorry I didn't reply sooner, thanks a lot for the info, very helpful.