Re: Windows 2000 Backup & Restore

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From: DL (dl_at_spoofmail.co)
Date: 08/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:02:19 +0100

You might find a specific app eg Ghost might be the simpler option, no need
to be concerned then about hd size/partition

"Ryan" <ryanrhyme@excite.com> wrote in message
news:ORarb01fEHA.1092@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I have gone through the Windows 2000 Disaster Recovery White Papaer and
> found that to restore the system state requires the exact same disk
> configuration. May I know how do I go about doing this. Let say there's
no
> RAID or mirroring, I have 2 H/D and 1 of the H/D needed to be replaced.
The
> damaged H/D is a 20G H/D, has 2 partitions.
>
> How can I partition it back to the exact size? I know I can use the
Windows
> 2000 CD to build my partition but the size I built would be differ
(because
> it's based on KB and 1KB=1024b), slight different would not have caused
> problem, I supposed.
>
> If I have a replacement of smaller size h/d, that mean I would not be able
> to restore the system state?
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
>
>

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