I have a Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 motherboard with an AMD64 Athlon processor.
Because I wanted to install Windows VISTA, I made an ASR diskette and a full
backup of the whole disk. VISTA didn't work, so I decided to go back and
restore my backup. To my surprise, it didn't work! It kept saying that the
disk was not large enough for the restore. Not large enough? They were the
same disks. Nothing had changed.
Then I decided to reinstall Windos XP, which I did. Then I tried to restore
the backup and the same message appeared again. My disks are SATA and
configured in a RAID-1 (mirror) array. After searching the Internet, I
discovered that many people have problems installing Windows VISTA on SATA
drives, but at this point all I want is to go back to my Windows XP and
restore my backup.
After many tests, my conclusion is that ASR doesn't know how to work with
SATA drives. It knows how to make a backup, but doesn't know how to restore
it. The driver for RAID is included because I press F6 before F2 and it
requests the driver, which I supply on a diskette every time. I also tried to
restore to a single SATA drive disk (without RAID this time) but failed
again. I was about to buy a larger SATA disk, but read about a guy who did
this to solve the same problem I have and it kept giving him the same message
of lack of space on the target disk, so I haven't tried this.
Any suggestions on how to hack the ASR diskette or something? Thanks.
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