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Just had a quick look on the Acronis forum and found these snippets (apparently, earlier versions of TI did have trouble with SATA drives):
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Download the TI2009 demo and make the restore CD and see if it will find/restore your existing archive. If it does, then you know an upgrade is in your future.
You have come unstuck at probably the most common place when doing a restore - trying the recovery CD for the first time when you really need it and then finding there is a problem.
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Thanks to the both of you. Installed the TI2009 Demo and made a Rescue CD. It worked like a charm. Found the drives and i managed to restore the system partition (C).
Maybe if you download TI2009 trial to another pc and make a rescue cd, you could try that in your "broken" system.