Hello
The case:
- I had a small SSD drive (16GB) and win 7 onto it
- I was starting to fill all its capacity (especially due to dev. soft like MSVStudio and SQL server)
- So i had to buy a larger SSD and restore the entire image system to this new SSD
- So i boot up the win7 disc and started the restore process
And it failed because the backup image was on D:\ of the old SSD
And since the old SSD had the same signature of the backup image
the restore process was not able to complete
Even though i selected the new SSD partition
Solution:
So i opened the Command
Typed these command lines:
DiskPart
DISKPART> select disk 0 <--this is the old SSD
DISKPART> uniqueid disk
DISK 00180000 <- it displayed the actual signature
DISKPART> uniqueid disk ID=01010101 <--type something different from the actual signature
And then i closed the command and i ran the system image restore successfully
It took me a long time to figure out how to solve this and i wanted to share this solution with you
I hope this will help some of you :)