Product is backup and Recovery v16,.. been executes of an ISO image cd....

>Back up the entire hard disk with Linux installation:
Yes Full disk image

>Now you're planning to:
>Restore the created archive to different hard disk device
Essentially yes,.. although I did try and restore just the main disk root partition/filesystem

this gave error and failed.. "file system has allocation errors due to cross linked files

Don't quiet understand this,.. as I could ( I think ) dd a backup back,....

As restoring root partition failed I endeavoured to retore entire disk,.. as other partitions had no useful data on...

On restoring entire disk,.. this to failed,.. as such saying I needed to restore boot stuff,...

This I did using latest System-Rescue,... although this did work it appeared to install a debian boot and there was some funny file left,.. which caused boot to pause for 90 seconds before timing out,...

I therefore started from scratch and rebuilt from scratch...

From you final comments do I just have to specify RAW copy mode...