Hard Drive Crashed, having trouble copying to New SATA drive

[Guest]

I just recently had my Maxtor 80GB IDE drive crash. Luckily I use Drive Image
7.0 and had a copy of thd drive a week old. When I boot up the system with
the Drive Image CD it doesn't find my Seagate 80GB SATA 150 drive that I
placed in the system with a PCI SATA card. If I run the Drive Image browser
it will not restore the drive to that drive, giving me an error message. I
believe it may be a few MB's smaller and it has to be the same size or
larger. I am copying the files onto my new drive from the backup, which it
will allow me to do, but not sure what else I will need to do to make this
drive boot up. Any guidance please? Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Your requirement is to take the Drive Image file and 'restore' to the SATA
drive.

OK Drive Image will not have the 'drivers' for SATA when running from the
'start-up' floppy disks: it's too old, being based on Caldera DOS, it may
also have an issue resolving >60Gb disks.

You can use partition magic to creste a second partition and reduce this
drive to two partitions of 40Gb, but it still won't help you reimage from the
startup set. Thus reduction of disk size may be a waste of time, plus add in
unnecessary RISK of ruining any exisiting files on the single partitioned
drive.

Norton Ghost 9.0 takes forward step by allowing one to create byte-by-byte
hard disk backups [and recovery?] without rebooting their PC or leaving
Windows. Ghost 9.0 now lets you make a duplicate "image" of your hard drive's
contents--copying all the files, programs, and settings--by incorporating
technology from Drive Image, which is a result of Symantec buying PowerQuest.
It manages USB and SATA drives, I'm quite sure of that.

I would have a quick word with Symantec Tech support and check with them if
you can restore from an earlier Drive Image file using Ghost: and also if it
can definitely handle SATA, ask also what additional drivers you may need to
load, if any.

 

[Guest]

Ok thanks. I am copying the files manually to the old drive, but was
wondering what I need to do to make it a bootable drive. If anyone can
advise that? I have managed to copy all the old files manually, with a few
problems but was successful. I don't know if I need to do a fixmbr to make
the drive work or something else.

Your requirement is to take the Drive Image file and 'restore' to the SATA
drive.

OK Drive Image will not have the 'drivers' for SATA when running from the
'start-up' floppy disks: it's too old, being based on Caldera DOS, it may
also have an issue resolving >60Gb disks.

You can use partition magic to creste a second partition and reduce this
drive to two partitions of 40Gb, but it still won't help you reimage from the
startup set. Thus reduction of disk size may be a waste of time, plus add in
unnecessary RISK of ruining any exisiting files on the single partitioned
drive.

Norton Ghost 9.0 takes forward step by allowing one to create byte-by-byte
hard disk backups [and recovery?] without rebooting their PC or leaving
Windows. Ghost 9.0 now lets you make a duplicate "image" of your hard drive's
contents--copying all the files, programs, and settings--by incorporating
technology from Drive Image, which is a result of Symantec buying PowerQuest.
It manages USB and SATA drives, I'm quite sure of that.

I would have a quick word with Symantec Tech support and check with them if
you can restore from an earlier Drive Image file using Ghost: and also if it
can definitely handle SATA, ask also what additional drivers you may need to
load, if any.

I just recently had my Maxtor 80GB IDE drive crash. Luckily I use Drive Image
7.0 and had a copy of thd drive a week old. When I boot up the system with
the Drive Image CD it doesn't find my Seagate 80GB SATA 150 drive that I
placed in the system with a PCI SATA card. If I run the Drive Image browser
it will not restore the drive to that drive, giving me an error message. I
believe it may be a few MB's smaller and it has to be the same size or
larger. I am copying the files onto my new drive from the backup, which it
will allow me to do, but not sure what else I will need to do to make this
drive boot up. Any guidance please? Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Ok thanks. I am copying the files manually to the old drive, but was
wondering what I need to do to make it a bootable drive. If anyone can
advise that? I have managed to copy all the old files manually, with a few
problems but was successful. I don't know if I need to do a fixmbr to make
the drive work or something else.

Your requirement is to take the Drive Image file and 'restore' to the SATA
drive.

OK Drive Image will not have the 'drivers' for SATA when running from the
'start-up' floppy disks: it's too old, being based on Caldera DOS, it may
also have an issue resolving >60Gb disks.

You can use partition magic to creste a second partition and reduce this
drive to two partitions of 40Gb, but it still won't help you reimage from the
startup set. Thus reduction of disk size may be a waste of time, plus add in
unnecessary RISK of ruining any exisiting files on the single partitioned
drive.

Norton Ghost 9.0 takes forward step by allowing one to create byte-by-byte
hard disk backups [and recovery?] without rebooting their PC or leaving
Windows. Ghost 9.0 now lets you make a duplicate "image" of your hard drive's
contents--copying all the files, programs, and settings--by incorporating
technology from Drive Image, which is a result of Symantec buying PowerQuest.
It manages USB and SATA drives, I'm quite sure of that.

I would have a quick word with Symantec Tech support and check with them if
you can restore from an earlier Drive Image file using Ghost: and also if it
can definitely handle SATA, ask also what additional drivers you may need to
load, if any.

I just recently had my Maxtor 80GB IDE drive crash. Luckily I use Drive Image
7.0 and had a copy of thd drive a week old. When I boot up the system with
the Drive Image CD it doesn't find my Seagate 80GB SATA 150 drive that I
placed in the system with a PCI SATA card. If I run the Drive Image browser
it will not restore the drive to that drive, giving me an error message. I
believe it may be a few MB's smaller and it has to be the same size or
larger. I am copying the files onto my new drive from the backup, which it
will allow me to do, but not sure what else I will need to do to make this
drive boot up. Any guidance please? Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Ok thanks. I am copying the files manually to the old drive, but was
wondering what I need to do to make it a bootable drive. If anyone can
advise that? I have managed to copy all the old files manually, with a few
problems but was successful. I don't know if I need to do a fixmbr to make
the drive work or something else.

Your requirement is to take the Drive Image file and 'restore' to the SATA
drive.

OK Drive Image will not have the 'drivers' for SATA when running from the
'start-up' floppy disks: it's too old, being based on Caldera DOS, it may
also have an issue resolving >60Gb disks.

You can use partition magic to creste a second partition and reduce this
drive to two partitions of 40Gb, but it still won't help you reimage from the
startup set. Thus reduction of disk size may be a waste of time, plus add in
unnecessary RISK of ruining any exisiting files on the single partitioned
drive.

Norton Ghost 9.0 takes forward step by allowing one to create byte-by-byte
hard disk backups [and recovery?] without rebooting their PC or leaving
Windows. Ghost 9.0 now lets you make a duplicate "image" of your hard drive's
contents--copying all the files, programs, and settings--by incorporating
technology from Drive Image, which is a result of Symantec buying PowerQuest.
It manages USB and SATA drives, I'm quite sure of that.

I would have a quick word with Symantec Tech support and check with them if
you can restore from an earlier Drive Image file using Ghost: and also if it
can definitely handle SATA, ask also what additional drivers you may need to
load, if any.

I just recently had my Maxtor 80GB IDE drive crash. Luckily I use Drive Image
7.0 and had a copy of thd drive a week old. When I boot up the system with
the Drive Image CD it doesn't find my Seagate 80GB SATA 150 drive that I
placed in the system with a PCI SATA card. If I run the Drive Image browser
it will not restore the drive to that drive, giving me an error message. I
believe it may be a few MB's smaller and it has to be the same size or
larger. I am copying the files onto my new drive from the backup, which it
will allow me to do, but not sure what else I will need to do to make this
drive boot up. Any guidance please? Thanks in advance.