Trying a restore, but not winning.

[ImnoGuru]

Thanks to all that gave me information on restoring my drive.

I have a 500 gig hard drive with Win XP Pro SP 3 on it.
I took an image of the drive when it was all going well, using Macrium Reflect.

Now, trying to restore the drive using the image, I find that the Macrium Reflect program gets to a point where it incompletes.
The wording reflect gives me is " Drive C: is locked. The partition you are trying to overwrite is being used by Windows."

Can someone advise as to how I should proceed with this please?

My thinking is that because the drive image is 250 gig that the C:drive doesnt have enough space left on it.

Since I took the original image, my computer drive now, has used 275 Gig.

Can I do a comparison of files between the image and the C: Drive and just replace the one/s that are different?

Is there a different answer as to how I might be able to restore my computer, that I havent tried as yet?

Thank you ImnoGuru.

[quaxo]

I'm not familiar with the program, so I don't know about its functions as far as making comparisons between the image and the current state of the drive.

However, you can't change the image of a system drive (in this case, C:) while the OS is currently running on it. This kind of procedure usually has to be done out of Windows. A lot of disk imaging software can create a bootable CD specifically for this purpose so that the disc image can be applied over what's on the drive already.

[Allan]

Restoration of the system partition needs to be done at boot. Macrium Reflect should tell you that and then automatically reboot.

[patio]

See Here...

[ImnoGuru]

Thank you for your reply quaxo, Allan and patio.

I will see if I can create this CD then.
Thank you patio for the link.