The drive that holds windows 7 keeps stalling and lagging. On reboot I get frequent messages that the disk need to be checked. It will run chkdsk, find and fix errors. THen it is fine again for a while.
 
I figure the drive myst be failing. (it is from that batch of Seagates a couple years ago that were bad.). SO I did a system image on another drive I have with the intent of copying that to the third drive (sig below) and then scrap the failing drive. SOunds easy enough, right? Well not so fast my bison breath friends.
 
The first time I try, it failed because I left the current drive attached but I excluded it from the recovery process. I got an error message saying I could not exclude it because it was part of the recovery process. The message said to disconnect it. So I did, then tried again. Thie time I got the message that said:
"System image restore failed. Error details: A data disk is currently set as active in BIOS. Set some other disk as active or use the diskpart utility to clean the data disk, and then retry the restore operation.'
 
So I went to BIOS to see how to change a disk to inactive there, and could not find a way. Then I reconnected the disk I want to pull, and booted into it, went to disk management and could not find a way to set it as inactive. BTW thas data disk is where the image is stored.
Then I googled the problem to see what I could find. I learned a little about how to use the diskpart utility to do this, so I went to a command prompt and went to the root. Starteed diskpart and selected the disk and partition I needed. then set tit to inactive. Easy enough. The I shut down, disconnect the drive I want to replace reboot to the system disk, and try the image restore. Same message. So I go back into diskpart and find a way to clean the disk. Which, BTW erases everything there. So I do that and shut down. Reconnect the drive I want to replace and reboot. Make my new image, then shut down, disconnect the drive, reboot. Now both the remaining disls are set as inactive, and the disk where I put the image has been 'cleaned'. So it should work, right?? Wrong!!! I get the same message when I try to copy the system image to the new drive.
 
What is wrong? and how do youset a disk inactive in BIOS? And if you set it inactive, will it show up in the restore process?

If the image restore point is on another drive place another drive connected to the same SATA cable as your original drive. Boot the Windows 7 DVD and choose the repair option. Once open then choose the repair option to use a system restore point and see if that works. The new drive should be C as it was for the original drive.