acronis true image restore

I have acronis true image 10. I used this software to back up my laptop knowing that my harddrive was going bad. I replaced the hard drive with a different manufacturer's hard drive and loaded windows xp and drivers on the new hard drive. When I tried to restore the programs I backed up on true image. I was able to restore the program (i.e. microsoft office) but couldnt find any set up files. Then i tried to just restore the c drive but come up with a black screen that indicates i need my master boot record. What's the best route to restore, programs, files, or images? Somebody help me.