Arrrggg. windows 7 restore problemFollow

Do you have access to a second computer? The easiest and quickest way to resolve this might be attaching the old laptop drive to a second computer, loading GimageX (http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit-tools/gimagex/ ) along with WAIK (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5753 ISO to bootable disk then install) on the second computer, taking an image from that drive and then writing the image to the new one. You can do the same thing with a bootable winPE disk or something along those lines, but then you have to buy that first. Thats free. Or there are utilities like symantec ghost, or acronis trueimage that will also do the trick, some with free trials.

What you might be running into is the image restore disks may have been created prior to service pack 1, and can't restore a SP1 image correctly. That or its possible the new drive is one of the new ones with the extra hardware offset that are difficult to write to. I'd have to see the image file and know the new drive model to be certain.

Edited, Dec 2nd 2011 8:47pm by Kaolian

that might work. If nothing else, the images you are working with should be "WIM" format images anyways, so GimageX should be able to read them once you get it installed. The only tricky part is burning then loading the ISO file

Ah, it's the older style one then. Nevermind.