Re: New hard disk

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.

You did not answer my questions.

1. Should I have ran Drive Image prior to the Windows restore CD?

2. If I run Drive Image on a just formatted hard disk, and try to restore the system from the image on the external hard disk, how can the computer see the external disk if Windows was not
installed?

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