New Hard drive XP System Restore problem.

[Koko]

I recently purchased a new hard drive, 80GB Maxtor
DiamondMax plus 9, ATA 133 7200 rpm. Maxtor provides S/W
to do a drive to drive copy. After completing the drive to
drive copy, and installing the new drive as the master, I
ran into a problem. I noticed that the Windows XP "System
Restore" tool does not work. When it is selected it
creates a error report to send to Microsoft. Since this
isn't working I worry that something else might be wrong.
Also, just to make sure it wasn't the Maxtor S/W, I used
PowerQuest Deploy Center to create an image of my original
hard drive, then restore the image to the new drive, and I
received the same errors. The drive is recognized O.K.,
size etc., and other utilities work great, the windows
help, surfing the web, my TV tuner, DVD s/w, etc.. The
windows version, I believe, is XP SP1. Any help would be
very appreciated.

 

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Well in the future it is always best to do a full and clean install
and that should have been what you should have done at the
start. Sometimes looking for a short way out will give you problem
here and their but, you pick that route so work with it.

Al

 

[Koko]

I was able to get around this system restore problem by
disabling system restore before doing the disk copy. Then
after using Maxblast 3 for the disk copy, and
reconfiguring the new drive as the master, I could re-
enable system restore. After this system restore doesn't
crash. However, after the disk copy, the restore points
are not retained. Once the new drive was up, I created a
restore point and went from there.

 

[Bob Harris]

Some of XP's files/drivers are hardware specific. Thus, when you change
certain hardware, it automatically erases all older restore points, since
those might be incompatible with the new hardware. This also happens when
you install SP-1. Even if you did not load new drivers, XP might have
loaded them for you from one of its resevoirs of files (usually in CAB
files).

The moral is, do not install new hardware, unless the PC is running well, or
unless you know that its problem is the hardware you are replacing.