why is usb disk corrupted by Vista restore

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Published on 2010-03-02T08:22:02Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 20:04 UTC
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I have a laptop with Vista Business on an 80GB disk. I have created a full backup and stored that on the original 80GB drive.

On my new 320GB disk, I have created a partition with exactly the same number of bytes as the original 80GB disk. I swap the disks so that the 320GB is internal, and the 80GB is in a USB caddy. I boot from the NEO restore CD and everything looks fine: I select the dump on the USB drive, target is drive C:, start the restore.

After a few seconds, the restore fails with "not enough disks in machine or disk not large enough" error (I did note the exact phrase).

I then swap the 80GB disk back to the internal drive, but the thing is unbootable.

Why has the restore process scrubbed the boot status of the USB drive ?

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