Re: New hard disk

"Sanford Aranoff" <aranoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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Disk Image image file had superseded it.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?


Using the DI 7.0 installation/recovery boot CD, it recovers the data as
saved. That's why there's a verification option during the imaging process
that can be elected. Faulty, the image will not save to disk. There will
be nothing to recover as a result. If faulty, and the verification is NOT
elected, and the image file is internally corrupt, the resulting image is no
good for recovery.

Assuming the recovery image file is okay, all DI needs is adequate
blank/unused hard drive space to write the partition and its contents. If
you want that recovered partition bootable, and there's another bootable
partition on that hard drive, that's another question you've not asked if
true.
--
Dave

Apathy and denial are close cousins


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