Re: Restoring Back-Up Image To Different HD (long post)


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"Rich" <rgsrx@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Greetings,
I have an upgraded old Dell Dimension XPS400 that has been upgraded to
to a Powerleap Celeron 1.4GHz, 768MB RAM, etc. I currently am
transitioning to Windows XP by dual-booting with Windows 2000. Now that
things are stable on the rebuilt system, I realized that the arrangement
of hard drives needs slight tweaking to better utilize disk space. I
back up each drive & partition to another computer on my network with
Ghost 2003. It is my understanding that Windows 2000 & Windows XP
retains drive letter assignments (unlike Windows 98) even after adding
new hard drives or repartitioning. Would the system still boot & operate
properly if I were to swap the drive contents of 2 of the hard drives by
restoring the Ghost images from one drive to the other & vice-versa? Or
do the operating systems remember their actual original physical drive
locations & be confused?

All that Win XP prevents you from doing within disk management
is changing the assignation of the boot or system partition.
You can change the assignations of other partitions and
discs as you wish. Assuming at least one of your OS partitions
is already C, which it is, the 2000 Partition, when copied to a
new disc this will remain as C and you can reassign letters of all others
partitions as necessary.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844

To implement changes as described you would need to change the boot
order in the CMOS set-up at boot-up F2. Although its probably more
usual to have the primary OS connected to the first available
connector as there seems no good reason not to. Which would
again be be disk 1 as it is now. (Assuming your propsed changes
would actualy work. )


michael adams


I'll give it a try & post back:

1) Change 1st boot disk in CMOS to Disk 4 (10G with 5G "C:\" partition
containing Windows 2000
2) Use Partition Magic to erase partitions & format 40G Disk 2 to 1 drive
3) Use Partition Magic to partition Disk 4 into 2 partitions, 5G each
4) Restore Ghost image of "C:\" from Disk 2 to 1st partition on Disk 4
5) Restore Ghost image of "H:\" from Disk 2 to 2nd partition on Disk 4
6) Restore Ghost image of "D:\" from Disk 4 to Disk 2

Thanks for answering, Michael.



If you're familiar with Partition Magic then go with that. For anyone without
PM, XP (Pro at least) has an up to date partitioning utility - similar in most
respects to the PM interface (although not with on-the-fly re-partitioning) in
the disk management tools.

While anyone hoping to once again lock horns with Fdisk is out of luck. As the
command line replacement is about 50 times more difficult to use. i.e
only the deranged would even try IMHO.


michael adams

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michael adams





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