Re: New hard disk


Sanford Aranoff wrote:


But why? This is the manual way of doing what Disk Image, Ghost, etc.,
does, for making disk image copies of the Windows system partition as
well as any other that can be selected by the user. The Dell tech was
incorrect in doing a Windows XP restore; it was not necessary since the
Disk Image image file had superseded it. Not that the Dell tech was
incorrect in offering this advice...this was the only advice that the
tech could offer on a support call without incurring any liability to
Dell. The user should have understood better.

Nor is it really a Windows problem that the Drive Image CD with the
image file had failed to reboot. It is a computer fault, perhaps in
bios setup. Or it could be an user fault in not specifying to make the
CD bootable.

Restoring partitions manually, as mentioned by GHalleck, carries its
own risks. Whilst it can be done, there are caveats and this process
should be left to the experts with the tools to do it. (Note that the
use of Win98SE requires FAT32 partitions...not "typical" in a Windows
XP installation.) Drive Image has been bought by Symantec. Test drive
Ghost or True Image or any other imaging application; choose one and
use it.


The Drive Image CD was bootable. I booted from this CD, and did the restore. It seemed to go fine. "Reboot after restore". I checked yes. The reboot failed.

Shall I have reformatted the disk prior to booting from the Drive Image CD?

Drive Image works fine. It creates images, and I can restore individual files. But when I had to replace the hard disk I could not reboot from the disk.

My wonder is that we know that hard disks fail frequently. We have known this for years. Why isn't there a simple way to replace the hard disk and restore from the image on the external?


Restoring from external disk drives has been done from years. Drive
Image was one of the first to support the use of external SCSI drives.
It could be started from a floppy disk drive which loaded an operating
system into memory and the executable file to clone the new partition
from the image file stored on the external drive. Ghost is another that
had this capability. AFAIK, almost all of the current disk imaging apps
have the capability of self-booting or running from a rudimentary OS
just for the purpose of cloning and, depending on the setup, some other
options. It is about as simple as it can get...practically routine.
.

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