ASR under XP SP2 is broken

[Guest]

I use to think a disk is a disk is a disk. I performed a ASR before on XP SP2
before with no problems but with the same vender disk .. i.e. the same model
# and close SN# .... but now I'm trying to restore from a WD SATA 160 to a
Seagate SATA 160 and get the following from restore

Capacity of the replacement hard disk is insufficient, cannot be used to
recover .....

On paper and XP see then as the same size ... actually the Seagate was 100k
larger ... BIOS sees it as a 160 SATA disk it's partition and formated ...
and before you say anything I tried it unpartitioned ... unformatted and the
same thing ...

Do you really need the exact disk for a ASR ??? if so that really sucks....
If not then what's the probem ???

thanks in advance

Dale G

OK more info

My Boot Disk was 160 G or 160,039,239,552 bytes
replacement disk for ASR is 160,039,239,680 bytes and ASR failed with a
message
"Capacity of replacement hard disk is insufficient, cannot e used for
recovery"

So OK I reduced the partition size to 149,552,005,120 bytes with "Partition
Magic"
and ASR stilled failed so what gives ??? Is ASR broken ??? Can I write a
level 1 bug against ASR ??? Being in SQA and Test I bet this is one test case
that fell through the cracks

Thanks again

dgalekov

 

[Frank]

ASR is a recovery program, using the term very loosly.
Use the disk that came with the HDD, (can be downloaded from the HDD page),
or invest in something like Acronis or Casper.