Question AOEMI Backupper Restored Windows Drive Wont Boot

[gregor_00]

Hi,
I have backed up my Windows drive using Aomei Backupper's backup tool (not clone) for my Windows Drive. I then formatted the drive as I was trying to solve a separate problem on my PC, now I have fixed that problem I restored my SSD using the image file and the AOMEI restore tool, however when it boots it says it is missing the winload.efi. I created a bootable Windows on a USB using the partition assistant and I can see my partitions from that drive (recovery etc) are coming up as seperate drives with individual drive letters. How do I get it back to its original form with what I have? I also manually copied over most folders onto the same backup drive as the system file if that helps.

Thanks.

 

[USAFRet]

Then whatever you did with AOMEI was insufficient or incorrect.

Since you have apparently formatted the original source, your options are few and far between.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I created a bootable Windows on a USB using the partition assistant and I can see my partitions from that drive (recovery etc) are coming up as seperate drives with individual drive letters.

Please show screenshot from Disk Management.
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[gregor_00]

Then whatever you did with AOMEI was insufficient or incorrect.

Since you have apparently formatted the original source, your options are few and far between.

I believe it is because I did disk back up rather than system back up, so it has not backed up the system partition as the partition is not there at all now when i restore the back up. However if I go into the drive I can go into System32 and the winload.efi file is there, so basically I just need windows to load it/ recreate the system partition if possible.

 

[USAFRet]

I believe it is because I did disk back up rather than system back up, so it has not backed up the system partition as the partition is not there at all now when i restore the back up. However if I go into the drive I can go into System32 and the winload.efi file is there, so basically I just need windows to load it/ recreate the system partition if possible.

I am not familiar with the options within AOMEI, but a proper Image or Clone should not require you to mess around in /System32/ and extract anything.
I can't imagine that ending well.

As above, please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

 

[gregor_00]

https://imgur.com/L1UwrCv

View: https://imgur.com/L1UwrCv


Disk 0 is the restored disk.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Disk 0 is the restored disk.

So F: is restored windows partition?
and H: is bootloader partition?
Correct?

Bootloader partition has to be active, for disk to be bootable.
Right-click on it and choose "Mark partition as active".

Edit: but in starting post you said, you restored SSD.
That would be Disk 1.
No?
BTW - Disk 1 is not bootable.

Anyway - show folder view of drives F: and E: .