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 Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject: Re: New hard disk |
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Sanford Aranoff wrote:
| Quote: | 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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Just as I thought...someone did not read the DriveImage manual.
It had to be copied from the DriveImage cdrom or from the website
if it had been downloaded. And it would have helped had these 2
questions been directly asked right from the outset.
| Quote: | You did not answer my questions.
1. Should I have ran Drive Image prior to the Windows restore CD?
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Yes. The Windows restore CD is not necessary if the DriveImage image
file had superseded it. The Windows restore CD from Dell is just the
disk image of the factory version. The Drive Image image file contains
the version of Windows as the user had configured it, at the time the
image was made.
You could have figured that out by the answer given by Mistoffolees,
when he wrote that the Dell technician was just doing his/her job.
| Quote: | 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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The Windows operating system is not needed to restore from an external
source. The Windows operating system, in fact, may hinder just such a
recovery, in order to protect itself from having working system files
over-written. Mistoffolees, again, gave the answer. Most self-booting
disk cloning or recovery programs have all the commands built-in for
partitioning, sizing, formatting and the sector-by-sector extraction
of the image file and copying to the hard drive, just as they do for
building the sector-by-sector imaging of the hard drive to a file.
DriveImage is somewhat dated. It boots into a runtime version of DR DOS
and, more recently, into its descendent version (? Culebra). If the
computer cannot natively identify the external drive (because it or its
bios is too ancient), then one must also re-write the autoexec.bat and
config.sys file, and add the system drivers to the boot disc. Nor, IIRC,
can DriveImage 7.0 restore from USB. (External SCSI, yes; internal HD,
yes.) Current versions of Ghost and True Image, among others, are OK
(and this is cominh from a Drive Image user when it was programmed by
PowerQuest.) |
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Dave
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:10 am Post subject: Re: New hard disk |
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"Dave A" <DaveA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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"Dave A" wrote:
"Sanford Aranoff" wrote:
On a regular basis I create an image of my hard disk using Drive Image
7. The image file is located on an external disk. My hard disk went,
and
I replaced it. The Dell technician used the Win XP SP2 restore disk to
restore Windows. I then restored my disk from the external by booting
with the Drive Image CD. It would not reboot! This meant that the
imaging software was faulty, as it did not restore the system! Would
Symantec Ghost work? Or is it impossible to restore the system from an
external?
Well, I had to put in the Windows CD and restore. This deleted the
registry. I copied from the external the /Windows files, pressing
Ignore
for files it did not allow me to copy. Some registry settings I
exported
and was able to import. I also exported the entire registry, but was
not
able to import it.
Hard disks go all the time. It should be possible to restore the system
without reinstalling the programs using the CD's.
Can one create a restore point on the external, and restore from here?
Can BACKUP do this job?
I now have a few minor problems. Open Control Panel. I get an error
message: Intel (R) PROset Resources are not available. Click OK,and the
control panel opens. Do you have any idea how to fix this?
Reboot. It asks me which Windows I want. Both are identical. How can I
get rid of the message?
Thank you very much.
I sometimes use Norton Ghost but I would think your program should have
an option of creating boot floppies with a restore (from whatever drive
you have the image on) or it may have an option to make the image
bootable.
Got dragged away........ and as pointed out by John most of these full
feature programs span multiple CDs or DVDs and often the program CD is
also
bootable to allow restores of images wherever they are and it should
contain
a method (Norton has Ghost Walker I think) of viewing the image to see
what
is in it. Finally of course when these programs create images they
usually
give an option to verify the image. This takes twice as long but it
sometimes saves a lot of heartache!
In any case sometimes images are not the "best" backup since they recreate
any problems that have developed. Why not (also) use a back-up program to
decide which folders/files to back-up to another disk and then in the
event
of a disaster you have "good" back-up files? I use free (donation if you
wish) Cobian backup which will put the files almost anywhere (USB,
Firewire,
internal etc drives) including FTP transfer if you have GBs of webspace
(except CD or DVD but you can use another program to burn the files if you
wish). It does it all on timed jobs and you can have full, differential,
incremental backups (multiple jobs can be run to create different types of
back-ups) as you prefer. It will also run either as a service or as a
program with a GUI.
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Verification takes just slightly over 33% beyond the imaging time on
DriveImage 7.0, my experiences.
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Dave
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:16 am Post subject: Re: New hard disk |
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Don't understand. More details involved in the recovery. Did you
click/check any options prior to the recovery to start? For instance boot
signature and/or mbr. Did you verify the the image file(s) during the
imaging process?
Are you recovering to the same computer, including same identical hardware
and so forth?
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Dave
Apathy and denial are close cousins
"Sanford Aranoff" <aranoff@analysis-knowledge.com> wrote in message
news:4629077E.B19D266A@analysis-knowledge.com...
| Quote: | On a regular basis I create an image of my hard disk using Drive Image
7. The image file is located on an external disk. My hard disk went, and
I replaced it. The Dell technician used the Win XP SP2 restore disk to
restore Windows. I then restored my disk from the external by booting
with the Drive Image CD. It would not reboot! This meant that the
imaging software was faulty, as it did not restore the system! Would
Symantec Ghost work? Or is it impossible to restore the system from an
external?
Well, I had to put in the Windows CD and restore. This deleted the
registry. I copied from the external the /Windows files, pressing Ignore
for files it did not allow me to copy. Some registry settings I exported
and was able to import. I also exported the entire registry, but was not
able to import it.
Hard disks go all the time. It should be possible to restore the system
without reinstalling the programs using the CD's.
Can one create a restore point on the external, and restore from here?
Can BACKUP do this job?
I now have a few minor problems. Open Control Panel. I get an error
message: Intel (R) PROset Resources are not available. Click OK,and the
control panel opens. Do you have any idea how to fix this?
Reboot. It asks me which Windows I want. Both are identical. How can I
get rid of the message?
Thank you very much.
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Dave
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:27 am Post subject: Re: New hard disk |
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"Sanford Aranoff" <aranoff@analysis-knowledge.com> 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?
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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.
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Dave
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Sanford Aranoff
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:27 am Post subject: Re: New hard disk |
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| Quote: | DriveImage is somewhat dated. It boots into a runtime version of DR DOS
and, more recently, into its descendent version (? Culebra). If the
computer cannot natively identify the external drive (because it or its
bios is too ancient), then one must also re-write the autoexec.bat and
config.sys file, and add the system drivers to the boot disc. Nor, IIRC,
can DriveImage 7.0 restore from USB. (External SCSI, yes; internal HD,
yes.) Current versions of Ghost and True Image, among others, are OK
(and this is cominh from a Drive Image user when it was programmed by
PowerQuest.)
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Okay, I got it. I'll get Acronis. This will allow me to create an image of the hard disk on the external drive (USB). In case of a crash, I replace the hard disk, format it, put in the Acronis
bootable disk, and restore from the external.
Is this correct? If so, I'll get the Acronis product right away.
Thanks a lot. |
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Dave
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:32 am Post subject: Re: New hard disk |
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"Sanford Aranoff" <aranoff@analysis-knowledge.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | 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?
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Doesn't matter. DI 7.0, installation/recovery boot CD, will recover the
image (if a good image file(s)) to make the original XP partition saved
previously.
| Quote: | 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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You don't partition OR format a hard drive when using a recovery software to
restore an image of a partition.
Whenever you decide to divulge the original hd capacity and the new hard
drive capacity, would be great.
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Sanford Aranoff
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:43 am Post subject: Re: New hard disk |
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Dave wrote:
| Quote: | Don't understand. More details involved in the recovery. Did you
click/check any options prior to the recovery to start? For instance boot
signature and/or mbr. Did you verify the the image file(s) during the
imaging process?
Are you recovering to the same computer, including same identical hardware
and so forth?
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Recovering to the same computer. The hard disk was replaced.
My system is now working. I am concerned how to protect myself in the future.
Is DI good enough, or shall I get something else, like True Image?
I am not sure if I verified the image during the imaging. I'll do it again and
check. I did verify during the recovery.
During recovery, I did say the new drive should be bootable. There was another
option about disk signature. I do not understand this, and did not check it,
because it was physically a different disk.
Again, this should be a routine process, for hard disks fail.
Thanks for your help. I'll try my best to answer any of your questions.
BTW, do you press CR at the end of each line when you type a message? How come
your lines do not scroll? |
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Ghostrider
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:18 pm Post subject: Re: New hard disk |
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Sanford Aranoff wrote:
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Dave wrote:
Don't understand. More details involved in the recovery. Did you
click/check any options prior to the recovery to start? For instance boot
signature and/or mbr. Did you verify the the image file(s) during the
imaging process?
Are you recovering to the same computer, including same identical hardware
and so forth?
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Recovering to the same computer. The hard disk was replaced.
My system is now working. I am concerned how to protect myself in the future.
Is DI good enough, or shall I get something else, like True Image?
I am not sure if I verified the image during the imaging. I'll do it again and
check. I did verify during the recovery.
During recovery, I did say the new drive should be bootable. There was another
option about disk signature. I do not understand this, and did not check it,
because it was physically a different disk.
Again, this should be a routine process, for hard disks fail.
Thanks for your help. I'll try my best to answer any of your questions.
BTW, do you press CR at the end of each line when you type a message? How come
your lines do not scroll?
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Based on the contents of this thread, find and use the best disk imaging
application that YOU are comfortable with. That is, it will be based on
your ability to understand the "computerese" of the instruction manual.
Or, alternately, find a friend or pay a tech to teach you how to use any
particular one and follow the instructions by rote. |
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Dave
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:34 am Post subject: Re: New hard disk |
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"Sanford Aranoff" <aranoff@analysis-knowledge.com> wrote in message
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Dave wrote:
Don't understand. More details involved in the recovery. Did you
click/check any options prior to the recovery to start? For instance
boot
signature and/or mbr. Did you verify the the image file(s) during the
imaging process?
Are you recovering to the same computer, including same identical
hardware
and so forth?
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Recovering to the same computer. The hard disk was replaced.
My system is now working. I am concerned how to protect myself in the
future.
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Why/how is it now working?
| Quote: | Is DI good enough, or shall I get something else, like True Image?
I am not sure if I verified the image during the imaging. I'll do it again
and
check. I did verify during the recovery.
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During the imaging process after imaging itself, verification of internal of
image file would be conducted if selected.
After the fact, during recovery, its too late. It will only let you know if
there's a problem.
| Quote: | During recovery, I did say the new drive should be bootable. There was
another
option about disk signature. I do not understand this, and did not check
it,
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The XP installation makes a signature for each hard drive it sees. It
should be identical on a drive that recovered with an image file, and that
hard drive is a replacement for one removed. XP has no idea at that point
its a different installation location.
| Quote: | because it was physically a different disk.
Again, this should be a routine process, for hard disks fail.
Thanks for your help. I'll try my best to answer any of your questions.
BTW, do you press CR at the end of each line when you type a message? How
come
your lines do not scroll?
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Am using Outlook Express for news. Version 6 that comes with SP2. It
automatically goes to the next line when I type. I do not use full screen
for replies.
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Dave
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:54 am Post subject: Re: New hard disk |
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"GHalleck" <ghalleck@arrakian.mining.com> wrote in message
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Sanford Aranoff wrote:
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.
Replied in-line:
Just as I thought...someone did not read the DriveImage manual.
It had to be copied from the DriveImage cdrom or from the website
if it had been downloaded. And it would have helped had these 2
questions been directly asked right from the outset.
You did not answer my questions.
1. Should I have ran Drive Image prior to the Windows restore CD?
Yes. The Windows restore CD is not necessary if the DriveImage image
file had superseded it. The Windows restore CD from Dell is just the
disk image of the factory version. The Drive Image image file contains
the version of Windows as the user had configured it, at the time the
image was made.
You could have figured that out by the answer given by Mistoffolees,
when he wrote that the Dell technician was just doing his/her job.
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?
The Windows operating system is not needed to restore from an external
source. The Windows operating system, in fact, may hinder just such a
recovery, in order to protect itself from having working system files
over-written. Mistoffolees, again, gave the answer. Most self-booting
disk cloning or recovery programs have all the commands built-in for
partitioning, sizing, formatting and the sector-by-sector extraction
of the image file and copying to the hard drive, just as they do for
building the sector-by-sector imaging of the hard drive to a file.
DriveImage is somewhat dated. It boots into a runtime version of DR DOS
and, more recently, into its descendent version (? Culebra). If the
computer cannot natively identify the external drive (because it or its
bios is too ancient), then one must also re-write the autoexec.bat and
config.sys file, and add the system drivers to the boot disc. Nor, IIRC,
can DriveImage 7.0 restore from USB. (External SCSI, yes; internal HD,
yes.) Current versions of Ghost and True Image, among others, are OK
(and this is cominh from a Drive Image user when it was programmed by
PowerQuest.)
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Dated, a perspective. Continues to work well here.
DI 7.0 restore/ installation CD runs on windows PE. DI 6.0/2002 runs on the
DR DOS. DI 7.0 can restore from both USB and Firewire connected hard
drives. There is no autoexec or config.sys to re-write (DI 6.0/2002, yes).
All is hard written (read-only) to the DI 7.0 bootable CD. It has an F6
option, like a windows installation, to inject a hardware driver if needed
during booting.
Long time user of DI 7.0
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Dave
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:59 am Post subject: Re: New hard disk |
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"Sanford Aranoff" <aranoff@analysis-knowledge.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | DriveImage is somewhat dated. It boots into a runtime version of DR DOS
and, more recently, into its descendent version (? Culebra). If the
computer cannot natively identify the external drive (because it or its
bios is too ancient), then one must also re-write the autoexec.bat and
config.sys file, and add the system drivers to the boot disc. Nor, IIRC,
can DriveImage 7.0 restore from USB. (External SCSI, yes; internal HD,
yes.) Current versions of Ghost and True Image, among others, are OK
(and this is cominh from a Drive Image user when it was programmed by
PowerQuest.)
Okay, I got it. I'll get Acronis. This will allow me to create an image of
the hard disk on the external drive (USB). In case of a crash, I replace
the hard disk, format it, put in the Acronis
bootable disk, and restore from the external.
Is this correct? If so, I'll get the Acronis product right away.
Thanks a lot.
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You have been terribly, terribly been misinformed by the previous reply. I
have no qualms if Acronis or DI 7.0 will do the job you seek. Both have
hard disk copy capability if all else fails. Just be sure the target is all
free space, no partitions.
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Dave
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:48 am Post subject: Re: New hard disk |
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"Dave" <killurpc@smacksofvirii.net> wrote in message
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Sanford Aranoff wrote:
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.
Replied in-line:
Just as I thought...someone did not read the DriveImage manual.
It had to be copied from the DriveImage cdrom or from the website
if it had been downloaded. And it would have helped had these 2
questions been directly asked right from the outset.
You did not answer my questions.
1. Should I have ran Drive Image prior to the Windows restore CD?
Yes. The Windows restore CD is not necessary if the DriveImage image
file had superseded it. The Windows restore CD from Dell is just the
disk image of the factory version. The Drive Image image file contains
the version of Windows as the user had configured it, at the time the
image was made.
You could have figured that out by the answer given by Mistoffolees,
when he wrote that the Dell technician was just doing his/her job.
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?
The Windows operating system is not needed to restore from an external
source. The Windows operating system, in fact, may hinder just such a
recovery, in order to protect itself from having working system files
over-written. Mistoffolees, again, gave the answer. Most self-booting
disk cloning or recovery programs have all the commands built-in for
partitioning, sizing, formatting and the sector-by-sector extraction
of the image file and copying to the hard drive, just as they do for
building the sector-by-sector imaging of the hard drive to a file.
DriveImage is somewhat dated. It boots into a runtime version of DR DOS
and, more recently, into its descendent version (? Culebra). If the
computer cannot natively identify the external drive (because it or its
bios is too ancient), then one must also re-write the autoexec.bat and
config.sys file, and add the system drivers to the boot disc. Nor, IIRC,
can DriveImage 7.0 restore from USB. (External SCSI, yes; internal HD,
yes.) Current versions of Ghost and True Image, among others, are OK
(and this is cominh from a Drive Image user when it was programmed by
PowerQuest.)
Dated, a perspective. Continues to work well here.
DI 7.0 restore/ installation CD runs on windows PE. DI 6.0/2002 runs on
the DR DOS. DI 7.0 can restore from both USB and Firewire connected hard
drives. There is no autoexec or config.sys to re-write (DI 6.0/2002,
yes). All is hard written (read-only) to the DI 7.0 bootable CD. It has
an F6 option, like a windows installation, to inject a hardware driver if
needed during booting.
Long time user of DI 7.0
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Dave
Apathy and denial are close cousins
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Addendum. DI 6.0 restore only works in IBM DR DOS, IF, you attempt to image
the boot drive. That won't happen here as can only be invoked from the Win
95/98/98SE/ME environment while in DI 6.0. It writes a temporary boot
floppy image where the PC subsequently boots from.
DI 6.0 creates two physical boot diskettes in windows for booting otherwise.
The operating system is the base msdos for the version of windows used in
that environment.
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Dave
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