Restoring a disk image to a different drive

Hello, All!

I have a RAID0 setup using 2 80 gb drives for my OS drive. I would like to
restore this on a 1TB drive. I use Ghost for my backups so I have an image
of the drive. Is it possible to restore on the TB drive and use it as my OS
drive?

Thanks,

Colonel Blip
E-mail: colonel.blip.at.bigfoot.com

colblip wrote:

Hello, All!

All hanged himself, got too many posts.

I have a RAID0 setup using 2 80 gb drives for my OS drive. I would like to restore this on a 1TB drive. I use Ghost
for my backups so I have an image of the drive. Is it possible to restore on the TB drive and use it as my OS drive?

Yes, the restore doesnt care what its restored too, all it needs is a viable drive.

You might have to do a repair install after the restore if the RAID0 setup uses drivers for that.

colblip wrote:
Hello, All!

I have a RAID0 setup using 2 80 gb drives for my OS drive. I would like to
restore this on a 1TB drive. I use Ghost for my backups so I have an image
of the drive. Is it possible to restore on the TB drive and use it as my OS
drive?

Thanks,

Colonel Blip
E-mail: colonel.blip.at.bigfoot.com

Yes, in order to migrate a boot partition, there are various tools
available. One of them that I would suggest is XXClone, which is free. I
think in your case it would be the best option because it operates
through the Windows OS rather than outside of it. Since you have RAID
disks, the XXClone doesn't need to know how to operate those RAID disks
itself, it just lets Windows take care of all of that. You can then copy
the 80GB partition over to an empty partition that you have already
created on the 1TB drive. Also since it's operating at the OS level, you
don't have to make the partition exactly identical in size to the original.

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan wrote:
colblip wrote:
Hello, All!

I have a RAID0 setup using 2 80 gb drives for my OS drive. I would
like to restore this on a 1TB drive. I use Ghost for my backups so I
have an image of the drive. Is it possible to restore on the TB
drive and use it as my OS drive?

Thanks,

Colonel Blip
E-mail: colonel.blip.at.bigfoot.com

Yes, in order to migrate a boot partition, there are various tools
available. One of them that I would suggest is XXClone, which is
free. I think in your case it would be the best option because it
operates through the Windows OS rather than outside of it. Since you have RAID
disks, the XXClone doesn't need to know how to operate those RAID
disks itself, it just lets Windows take care of all of that.

Most modern cloners do that the same way.

You can then copy the 80GB partition over to an empty partition that you have already created on the 1TB drive. Also
since it's operating at the OS level, you don't have to make the partition exactly identical in size to the original.

Hardly any modern cloners require the same size as the original.

Thanks for the help. I knew I could set up a same size partition on the new
drive and make the clone but I intend to keep the new drive with a much
larger partition than my current raid setup.

BTW, "All" of you were helpful. :-)

Hello, Rod!
You wrote on Tue, 9 Mar 2010 04:18:30 +1100:

RS Yousuf Khan wrote:
?? colblip wrote:
?? Hello, All!
??
?? I have a RAID0 setup using 2 80 gb drives for my OS drive. I would
?? like to restore this on a 1TB drive. I use Ghost for my backups so I
?? have an image of the drive. Is it possible to restore on the TB
?? drive and use it as my OS drive?
??
?? Thanks,
??
?? Colonel Blip
?? E-mail: colonel.blip.at.bigfoot.com
??
?? Yes, in order to migrate a boot partition, there are various tools
?? available. One of them that I would suggest is XXClone, which is
?? free. I think in your case it would be the best option because it
?? operates through the Windows OS rather than outside of it. Since you
?? have RAID disks, the XXClone doesn't need to know how to operate those
?? RAID disks itself, it just lets Windows take care of all of that.

RS Most modern cloners do that the same way.

?? You can then copy the 80GB partition over to an empty partition that
?? you have already created on the 1TB drive. Also since it's operating
?? at the OS level, you don't have to make the partition exactly
?? identical in size to the original.


With best regards, colblip. E-mail: colonel.blip.at.bigfoot.com

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 04:18:30 +1100, "Rod Speed"
wrote:



Yes, in order to migrate a boot partition, there are various tools
available. One of them that I would suggest is XXClone, which is
free. I think in your case it would be the best option because it
operates through the Windows OS rather than outside of it. Since you have RAID
disks, the XXClone doesn't need to know how to operate those RAID
disks itself, it just lets Windows take care of all of that.

Most modern cloners do that the same way.

What am I doing wrong? I'm using Acronis True Image 2009 to clone an
XP image on a laptop. The target drive is attached via USB. Everything
seems to work fine, and Acronis Disk Director shows the target drive
to be bootable. Yet, when I insert the cloned drive into my laptop,
the system just hangs ... and hangs ... forever.

-AH

Andrew Hamilton wrote:
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 04:18:30 +1100, "Rod Speed"
wrote:



Yes, in order to migrate a boot partition, there are various tools
available. One of them that I would suggest is XXClone, which is
free. I think in your case it would be the best option because it
operates through the Windows OS rather than outside of it. Since you have RAID
disks, the XXClone doesn't need to know how to operate those RAID
disks itself, it just lets Windows take care of all of that.

Most modern cloners do that the same way.

What am I doing wrong? I'm using Acronis True Image 2009 to clone an
XP image on a laptop. The target drive is attached via USB. Everything
seems to work fine, and Acronis Disk Director shows the target drive
to be bootable. Yet, when I insert the cloned drive into my laptop,
the system just hangs ... and hangs ... forever.

Could be a geomattry translation issue. USB uses the SCSI
command set, which basically does a "LBA32" or "LBA64", while
SATA uses LBA24 or LBA48. Maybe this leads to the MBR not
finding the boot partition.

You could try an alternate bootmanager.

Arno
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Andrew Hamilton wrote:
What am I doing wrong? I'm using Acronis True Image 2009 to clone an
XP image on a laptop. The target drive is attached via USB. Everything
seems to work fine, and Acronis Disk Director shows the target drive
to be bootable. Yet, when I insert the cloned drive into my laptop,
the system just hangs ... and hangs ... forever.


Is the laptop able to boot from USB? If so, then is the Master Boot
Record set to active for the boot partition? Is it possible to take the
drive out of its USB enclosure and put it directly into the laptop?

Yousuf Khan

Andrew Hamilton wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Yes, in order to migrate a boot partition, there are various tools
available. One of them that I would suggest is XXClone, which is
free. I think in your case it would be the best option because it
operates through the Windows OS rather than outside of it. Since
you have RAID disks, the XXClone doesn't need to know how to operate
those RAID disks itself, it just lets Windows take care of all of that.

Most modern cloners do that the same way.

What am I doing wrong? I'm using Acronis True Image 2009 to clone
an XP image on a laptop. The target drive is attached via USB. Everything
seems to work fine, and Acronis Disk Director shows the target drive
to be bootable. Yet, when I insert the cloned drive into my laptop,
the system just hangs ... and hangs ... forever.

Are you cloning the partition or the entire physical drive ?

Most laptops have a special boot partition that is essential for booting on the laptop.

Even if you are cloning the entire physical drive, the boot
partition the laptop requires may not be properly allowing
for the different physical size of the two drives.