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Uncle John
Hi Installation Experts
I am planning to buy a new motherboard with advanced Sata controllers
replacing my existing Gigabyte board which has two Raptor 145 GB SATA II
disks but does not support advanced SATA
I have had little success in the past with the Microsoft tool for
transferring settings.
AS every thing else in system will be unchanged I was wondering if I go save
my self the hours of work involved in a clean install and then reloading all
the applications by doing this
Buy a third Raptor and install it as the boot disk along side the two
existing disks which are
1] the system disk
and
2](i) copy of the system disk (created regularly with CasperXP) for disaster
recovery purposes. This disk also contains grandfather, father,son set of
Acronis True image 9.
2](ii) HP 40 GB sat tape drive which is used for weekly backups of the
system disk
3](i)Install WindowsXP with a clean install into the new disk. Install
Acronis and the tape backup software
4]Try and load the existing System by
(a) Switching the boot order so that the original system boots. It is
possible that Windows will detect the new hardware and update it.
(b) if the above fails, return to the new disk as boot disk, format the
old system disk and then use Acronis to copy the new disk to the old disk,
but only the mbr and boot track
(c) From the new disk use the tape drive to restore the old system
including system state to the old system disk as "other location"
Switch the old disk back to boot disk and start Windows which should detect
the new hard ware.
I would be grateful for any suggestions. I do know that the safe and sure
way of making the change is to do a clean install to the new disk, install
all the applications and then mount the last Acronis image and recover all
the data files from it. However, last time I had to do that it took me about
a week to get every thing right.
John
Uncle John
I am planning to buy a new motherboard with advanced Sata controllers
replacing my existing Gigabyte board which has two Raptor 145 GB SATA II
disks but does not support advanced SATA
I have had little success in the past with the Microsoft tool for
transferring settings.
AS every thing else in system will be unchanged I was wondering if I go save
my self the hours of work involved in a clean install and then reloading all
the applications by doing this
Buy a third Raptor and install it as the boot disk along side the two
existing disks which are
1] the system disk
and
2](i) copy of the system disk (created regularly with CasperXP) for disaster
recovery purposes. This disk also contains grandfather, father,son set of
Acronis True image 9.
2](ii) HP 40 GB sat tape drive which is used for weekly backups of the
system disk
3](i)Install WindowsXP with a clean install into the new disk. Install
Acronis and the tape backup software
4]Try and load the existing System by
(a) Switching the boot order so that the original system boots. It is
possible that Windows will detect the new hardware and update it.
(b) if the above fails, return to the new disk as boot disk, format the
old system disk and then use Acronis to copy the new disk to the old disk,
but only the mbr and boot track
(c) From the new disk use the tape drive to restore the old system
including system state to the old system disk as "other location"
Switch the old disk back to boot disk and start Windows which should detect
the new hard ware.
I would be grateful for any suggestions. I do know that the safe and sure
way of making the change is to do a clean install to the new disk, install
all the applications and then mount the last Acronis image and recover all
the data files from it. However, last time I had to do that it took me about
a week to get every thing right.
John
Uncle John