Re: Xpress Recovery2 - The saga continues

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"Mickey Mouse" <Mickey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For example
If my harddrive is say 200GB and the data including the system will come
to say 50Gb, then I think Brian is saying that my 'Unallocated space'
which I create at installation should be 'at least' 50Gb. That didn't
work, I tried it.

Gigabyte is saying
If my harddrive is say 200GB all partitioned to C: then my 'Unallocated
space' has to be the same size 200Gb. That doesn't make any sense as there
is only one physical drive.

The Gigabyte book that came with the mobo says
Created your partitions leaving at least 10Gb 'Unallocated'. Anyone got
the book?

I know the problem will be with my understanding. I havn't heard from
anyone I think so far in this thread that has actually done it and given a
step by step instruction.

My major concern right now is that I'm boring you guys to tears

OK, a hypothetical example step by step.

1. One physical drive and it's 500000Mb (500Gb) unformatted,
unpartitioned.
2. Insert Windows XP home installation disk.
3. Installation disk asks if I want to make a partition
4. I decide yes and tell it to make a 300000Mb (300Gb)
5. It then proceeds to make me a 300Gb partition and calls it C:
6. It also displays the remainder 200000Mb (200Gb) 'Unallocated space',
which I leave as is.
7. I then tell it to install the OS to the C: partition which it does.
8 Windows get install ok, I then load all my drivers.
9. When all is done, I check disk management and see that I have..
(a) C:drive (system) Primary drive
(b) an amount of space around 200Gb either denoted as 'Free space or
'unallocated space'.
10. If it says 'free space' I turn it into 'unallocatted'

I now have a pc with one physical drive with one partition C:300Gb loaded
with Windos XP and drivers. Aslo appx 200Gb of 'unallocated space'
I try to install XR2 and it says I don't have enough free harddrive space
to create the image.
I know there is at least one other person reading this thread who is
having the exact same problem.
Don't I Conrad? Say something.

Mickey


Mickey:
This isn't "boring" at all. Actually it's quite interesting (at least for
me), especially since I'll be shortly putting together probably next week a
system containing one of the newer Gigabyte motherboards.

As I believe I previously mentioned to you (in another thread re the Casper
5 program) I've installed and worked with a fair number of Gigabyte
motherboards but I've never installed nor worked with that particular
program for the reason I previously mentioned, i.e., I'm generally
uncomfortable with the notion of having one's backup/recovery program on the
same boot HDD. But as you've indicated it's worked for you in the past so
that's all that counts.

Anyway, I had a chance to chat with one of my former colleagues who has had
some (limited) experience with that Xpress Recovery2 program. While he's in
agreement with my general point-of-view about not installing a
backup/recovery type of program on the same physical HDD the user would be
restoring, he has installed the program a number of times because the
customer desired such. He seemed to recall (at least during a testing phase
of the system) that the program worked as advertised, i.e., it was able to
restore a corrupted OS to a bootable state.

Like you, he has gone along with Gigabyte's recommendation that a minimum of
10 GB of unallocated disk space be available for the program to create its
partition. He couldn't recall whether he ever had a problem installing the
program. Since the program is designed to back up (via an image) only the
OS, presumably that disk space should be sufficient for the program's
purpose.

He couldn't explain the error message you have rec'd even though you've left
about double that amount of unallocated disk space - you had mentioned that
you had left about 20 GB of unallocated disk space as I recall.

(I note in your hypothetical example above you've indicated 200 GB of
unallocated space - just to further make the point - I assume - that
something is amiss when the XR2 program still would report insufficient disk
space to create the program.)

I might also mention that my former colleague also recalled that at one
point or another when he was having some problem with the program (he
couldn't recall whether it related to the installation of the program or its
restoration process) he got in touch with Gigabyte and was informed by one
of their techs that XR2 was not designed to be used as a routine incremental
backup & restoration program. But he couldn't really amplify that tech's
comment or what it had to do with the problem he had raised with Gigabyte.
But for some reason that comment stuck in his mind. I just thought I'd
mention it to you in passing for whatever it's worth.

So I'll plan to install the XR2 program hopefully some time next week when I
build the system. Assuming the installation process goes without a hitch
(similar to what you've been experiencing), I'll play around with the
program to see what I can learn. I'll subsequently pass on any relevant
comments to you.

In the meantime, if by chance you've resolved the installation problem,
please let us know. And if there's any special info that you think I (and
others) should know re the restoration process I would appreciate your also
passing on such.

Who knows? I might even like the program!
Anna


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