BING Question

[Joey]

Hello,

I've heard many folks here rave about BootIt NG (BING) and it appears to
be a fine program. I plan to try it but have a few questions that I have
not been able to answer even at Terrabyte's site.

If I have a 40 GB HDD with one partition (C) in NTFS (or FAT32) and I
create an image file;

Can I re-size the C drive to say 10 GB, then create a D drive say 10 GB,
and another say 20 GB and THEN restore the image made from the 40 GB
drive to the new 10 GB C drive?

A friend advised that an image from a large partition cannot be restored
to a smaller partition. Is this true?

I would think that the "used" portion of the C drive might be 5 GB for
WindowsXP and its system files and programs and after imaging with
compression would be around 3 or 3.5 GB in size. My friend says that the
image can only be restored to the original size or larger.

Can someone who knows Bing please comment?

Thanks, Joe

 

[Ron Sommer]

Your friend is correct.
You can resize C: before imaging.

 

[Joe]

Ron,

Not sure of what you mean here.

My friend says that I canNOT restore the image made from the 40 GB drive to
the new 10 GB drive - is that true or not?

Joe

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BBQ=AB?=]

Not sure of what you mean here.

My friend says that I canNOT restore the image made from the 40 GB
drive to the new 10 GB drive - is that true or not?

That is true. If you make an image of a 40 GB partition, it will not
fit in anything smaller than a 40 GB partition, even if it is an image
of a partition with mostly free space.

You could use BootIt to resize the 40 GB partition prior to making an
image of it, so that you could then restore the image to a partition
smaller than 40 GB.

But from your original post, it looks like you don't need to go restore
an image at all, just resize your C partition to 10 GB then create new
partitions with the other space on the drive.

 

[Joe]

Thanks Q,

The reason I asked was that I wanted to have some protection before doing
the re-size. Being able to restore 5GB of data to a 10 GB partition is what
I had in mind.

Do you know if this is also true of Drive Image, and True Image?

Thanks, Joe

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BBQ=AB?=]

Thanks Q,

The reason I asked was that I wanted to have some protection
before doing the re-size. Being able to restore 5GB of data to a
10 GB partition is what I had in mind.

Yeah, for safety, you should image the full 40 GB before resizing.
Hopefully you would never need to restore it, but if you did you'd just
have to create a 40 GB partition for it and start all over.

Do you know if this is also true of Drive Image, and True Image?

Sorry, I don't know. If no one else comes along to answer that, you
might ask in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I've heard many folks here rave about BootIt NG (BING) and it appears to
be a fine program. I plan to try it but have a few questions that I have
not been able to answer even at Terrabyte's site.

If I have a 40 GB HDD with one partition (C) in NTFS (or FAT32) and I
create an image file;

Can I re-size the C drive to say 10 GB, then create a D drive say 10 GB,
and another say 20 GB and THEN restore the image made from the 40 GB
drive to the new 10 GB C drive?

A friend advised that an image from a large partition cannot be restored
to a smaller partition. Is this true?

No. Restoration of an image creates a partition that is exactly the
same in all respects as the original (apart from not copying free areas
where there was no data) including to be the same size. If you try to
restore into a smaller area it will not do it; if you restore to a
bigger one, you will have free space (and can then resize up to fit if
you want)

That applies to any true imaging program, not just BING

 

[Joe]

Thanks, Alex
Joe

No. Restoration of an image creates a partition that is exactly the
same in all respects as the original (apart from not copying free areas
where there was no data) including to be the same size. If you try to
restore into a smaller area it will not do it; if you restore to a
bigger one, you will have free space (and can then resize up to fit if
you want)

That applies to any true imaging program, not just BING