Deric,
I actually posted a reply to your penultimate message but it seems to have been removed. I don't know why that would be – I wasn't particularly rude about Symantec products…
In that message I confirmed that when I tried to do an image transfer using SSR 2013 "restore anywhere" was greyed out and, presumably as a consequence of this I was unable to transfer the backup from the USB drive to the new SATA drive. I also said in the posting that has been deleted that because I have as yet been unable to restore the backup I paid for somebody to clone the contents of the original IDE drive to a SATA drive.
Even after doing a repair with the Windows 7 installation disc this new drive will not boot. If I install another drive on the same machine and install a copy of Windows 7 I can see most but not all the data on the copy of the original C drive but most of the applications won't work.
I also said that the backup on the external drive doesn't have any partitions just lots of backup files so I wasn't clear exactly how I should proceed and asked for your further help
Maybe Symantec remove this posting because I said that their product wouldn't work and I was trying a workaround…
I could only find a trial copy of SSR 2013. It is fully functional and simply stops working after 60 days
If a full copy was necessary and can be located then I would be happy to buy it but only if it was capable of restoring my backup. The failure of the backup has already cost me very dearly and I will be reluctant to pour even more good money after bad.
Anyway, presuming that you can manage to read this post before it is removed I would, as always, be grateful for your further advice
David