8GB disk image restored to 32GB disk won't boot
I have backed up a disk - Compact Flash 8GB - using AOMEI Backupper. If I restore it to another 8GB CF, everything is fine, but if I restore it to a 32GB CF, the system (running XP) won't boot.
The 32GB CF after restore has an OS partition, a recovery partition, and the rest of the space is unallocated.
The image contains an OS partition and a custom recovery partition. If I use the XP setup's recovery mode and run fixmbr, the system boots, but the boot prompt to press a particular key (F3) to launch the custom recovery process doesn't appear.
Normally, when I boot, I am presented with a message Press F3 to enter recovery mode. If I don't do anything, the system boots to the regular XP environment.
What is happening now (with the 32GB CF) is that I see the message:
What is happening now (with the 32GB CF) is that I see the message:
Press F3 to enter recovery mode
ErroPress F3 to enter recovery mode
The error message is being overwritten. I have no idea what it is supposed to be. Pressing F3 does nothing.
Please help me fix this.
Comments
Generally, our program can't handle the recovery partition. It will back up and restore the recovery partition as a common partition.
Could you try to clear all partitions on the 32gb CF, and then do the restore again? When restore, please don't resize partitions.