I am attempting to restore a hard drive from an archive of a dead one, which
was a boot disk containing windows plus tons of files.  I believe that the
archived partition was marked as "primary and active" as I see "flags" that
list "PRI, ACT".
I was able to restore the contents of the archive onto a new drive, however
it will not boot the PC.  I get the "Windows Could Not Start Because of a
Computer Disk hardware Configuration Problem" message.  I believe that the
problem stems from not being able to set the new partition as "primary AND
active" with acronis.  I must choose "active" only, because "primary" is
greyed-out, and could not use both, as the old partition seems to have been.

A separate issue that may not matter:
My system as it stands now has two drives:  a drive to boot from that
includes the archive, and a new one to burn the archive to.  I find that I
was only able to burn the archive when I boot to the internal drive and run
acronis
from there.  When I boot from the acronis boot CD, everything seems the same
as I work through the dialogs, until I push the last button and nothing
happens - the archive does not get restored to the drive, and the time
remaining counter goes up, to like 12 hours, and stays there.

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