Re: Two "expert" issues I must solve before upgading

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From: Jeff W (msnews_at_kwcpa.com)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:49:17 -0400
To:  sharonf@mvps.org

Sharon - could I comment on your writing below? (see ********* in your
reply below)?

You made a point that if one preps a hard drive in a different PC than the
one that it will be used in, it's (incorrect) location will be "recorded
during disk prep". I agree, but isn't this information recorded only
in the boot record of the partition containing XP? So when that partition
is later overwritten with the disk-image restore, the incorrect information
is overwritten with the (old) correct information, right?

thanks

/j

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Sharon F wrote:

>On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:01:03 -0400, Jeff W wrote:
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>> On PC #1 - I perform full (image), and incremental (NTBACKUP) backups,
>> I -store- them on PC #2
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>> when the disk on PC #1 crashes... I
>> 1) add and format a new disk to PC #2
>> 2) On PC #2, do an image restore to the new disk
>> 3) move the new disk from PC #2 to PC #1
>> 4) boot.
>> 5) Do the NTBACKUP incremental restores to the new disk
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>Change the plan to
>1) add and format a new disk on PC #1: use the disk prep tools on the XP
>setup CD. Once the drive is prepared, cancel setup.
>2) Restore image over the network from PC #2 (most imaging programs support
>restoring over the network)
>3) N/A
>4) boot
>5) Handle your data backups using your preferred method/program
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> > Where does WPA come into play here?
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>While the hard drive is in PC#2 it will be hard drive 1 (second hard drive)
>and this will be recorded during the disk prep. Move it to PC#1, it now
>becomes hard drive 0. XP's hardware check will see that change and you
>could run into trouble because of it.
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>> Also - are you happy with IFW? Did you have to provide them with
>> information from your PC to get a paid copy? (I try to avoid
>> over-enthusiastic copy-protection schemes - WPA is the main reason I
>> waited so long to upgrade - I do things honestly and the schemes are
>> just so often a burden - as I'm finding out in this thread 8-})
>> thanks!
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>I'm very happy with IFW. It's reasonably priced compared to other imaging
>programs and is well supported. The only info I had to provide was an email
>address for the license for the software to be emailed. Purchasing IFW
>includes a copy of IFD. There is a cdboot.f35 file in the paid IFD program.
>This file is your "key" to the paid versions. It is used by IFD and IFW.
>Keep a spare copy of that file around. Drop it into your IFW directory.
>
>There is a supplemental download of a free tool, PhyLock, that allows
>images to be created while you're working in Windows. The tool grabs an
>image of files that are in use so that the complete image can be created.
>This is very similar to and serves the same purpose of "shadow volume" that
>is used by ntbackup. To utilize, simply drop a copy of PhyLock into the
>working IFW directory.
>
>There is a link on the TeraByte site to a step by step tutorial that walks
>you through creating and restoring an image by step. And of course the
>program has a help file and there are user support forums available.
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