I thought I'd pass-on my experience of this restoration.
The first problem was that I couldn't get the Netbook to boot into restoration from a USB memory stick, so I used a portable USB CD/DVD drive with the Client Restore CD. That worked fine initially but the restoration process bombed early with the message “RestoreCDInit.exe - Application Error”. I discovered that I could fix this by modifying the Netbook BIOS Advanced Settings to set AHCI Mode to “on". The restoration then ran fine to completion, but somewhere along the line there was a message about partitions that I ignored (see later). After the restoration, I reverted the BIOS to AHCI Mode "off" at start-up, but got a new message "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem". I fixed this by downloading an iso of OEM Windows XP SP3 Home Edition, writing this to a CD, running this at start-up, and then progressing through the Recovery Console pathway such that I got a command prompt where I entered "bootcfg /rebuild" that found three OS installations. I then rebooted the Netbook specifying the hard disk as the boot source and was offered the 3 OS installations of which I chose the topmost on the list, and it worked! Phew.
I needed to do a bit of tidying-up having done the restoration: firstly, I removed what turned out to be spurious OS references by running msconfig and then "Check All Boot Paths" under the boot.ini tab (leaving me with one valid OS installation); and secondly it turned out that 4 GB of my disk hadn't been allocated to the main partition which I fixed using Acronis Disk Director.
All in all, the process was rather more nerve-wracking than I'd expected, but it worked.
The first problem was that I couldn't get the Netbook to boot into restoration from a USB memory stick, so I used a portable USB CD/DVD drive with the Client Restore CD. That worked fine initially but the restoration process bombed early with the message “RestoreCDInit.exe - Application Error”. I discovered that I could fix this by modifying the Netbook BIOS Advanced Settings to set AHCI Mode to “on". The restoration then ran fine to completion, but somewhere along the line there was a message about partitions that I ignored (see later). After the restoration, I reverted the BIOS to AHCI Mode "off" at start-up, but got a new message "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem". I fixed this by downloading an iso of OEM Windows XP SP3 Home Edition, writing this to a CD, running this at start-up, and then progressing through the Recovery Console pathway such that I got a command prompt where I entered "bootcfg /rebuild" that found three OS installations. I then rebooted the Netbook specifying the hard disk as the boot source and was offered the 3 OS installations of which I chose the topmost on the list, and it worked! Phew.
I needed to do a bit of tidying-up having done the restoration: firstly, I removed what turned out to be spurious OS references by running msconfig and then "Check All Boot Paths" under the boot.ini tab (leaving me with one valid OS installation); and secondly it turned out that 4 GB of my disk hadn't been allocated to the main partition which I fixed using Acronis Disk Director.
All in all, the process was rather more nerve-wracking than I'd expected, but it worked.