"Error: The disk that is set as active in BIOS is too small..." while restoring a system image.

Question

_{Wednesday, February 15, 2017 9:29 PM}

I lately had a lot of trouble with my laptop while updating Windows. I tried reinstalling Windows, no success. Now, I want to return to my working version with my system image. I boot from a recovery drive (USB), start the System Image Recovery, select the correct image.... Everything is fine until I start the recovery. After a couple of seconds, this error appear: http://imgur.com/a/WxBfe

I didn't change the drives, the only thing different would be the partitions on them. Which drive is the error referring to? Also, I might need to mention there is a 8 GB SSD in this laptop in addition to the main 1 TB HDD. 

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_{Thursday, February 16, 2017 3:00 AM}

Hi,

Apparently the disk to receive the image must be equal to or larger than the original drive. Just as a thought, do you just shrink the drive to the theoretical size of the SSD?  Generally,  the theoretical size should be smaller than the virtual size.

Please refer to this similar case, the workaround comes from David Shen is worth trying.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/f15bfe2f-e265-479a-afa3-f055530c97f5/windows-server-backup-0x80042407-seriously?forum=winserverfiles

Regards

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