Transfer image to another partition.

[Ed H]

Can this be done? I have Vista Home Premium x64 OS installed on dive C:\. On
another partition, I'd like to do a piecemeal installation of Vista, install
my apps and drivers, install personal data, clean it all up and then make an
image of the partition. I then would like to replace my original setup on
C:\ with the new image so I can have a working system while I patiently put
a custom made one together.

Thanks,
Ed
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Windows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz
4.00 GB RAM
300 GB HDD

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Acronis True Image
http://www.acronis.com/


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast

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Can this be done? I have Vista Home Premium x64 OS installed on dive C:\. On
another partition, I'd like to do a piecemeal installation of Vista, install
my apps and drivers, install personal data, clean it all up and then make an
image of the partition. I then would like to replace my original setup on
C:\ with the new image so I can have a working system while I patiently put
a custom made one together.

Thanks,
Ed
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Windows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz
4.00 GB RAM
300 GB HDD

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Can this be done? I have Vista Home Premium x64 OS installed on dive C:\.
On another partition, I'd like to do a piecemeal installation of Vista,
install my apps and drivers, install personal data, clean it all up and
then make an image of the partition. I then would like to replace my
original setup on C:\ with the new image so I can have a working system
while I patiently put a custom made one together.

Yes, but when I did that years ago, with Win2000 or XP, I had to live with
my main OS partition having the D: drive letter. It actually annoyed me
quite a lot, so I had a logon script do this:

SUBST C: D:\

....so I could still use the command line without getting confused. When you
do this you get both drives in My Computer, and the one you do not want can
be hidden with TweakUI (you will have to do this in the registry with
Vista).

You should be able to avoid any of this happening, if you first hide the
original OS partition before you install the OS on the second one. You can
do this with Acronis Disk Director, or a multiple boot program. After the
OS has been installed, you should be able to unhide the original partition
from the new one. The new one will be seen as D: (or whatever the next free
letter is) while in the original OS installation, but it /should/ be C: when
booted into the second one.

It's much easier to borrow a laptop or something, instead. It would also be
easier if you at least use two different physical hard drives, as you can
just unplug the original, while installing on the second one.

This information is irrelevant, if Vista does things differently.

ss.

 

[Earle Horton]

It sounds as if you have one hard drive with two partitions, call them C:
and D:. As long as they are primary partitions, you can swap them using DOS
fdisk or Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk
Management, right click, Mark Partition as Active. This is for XP; I am
pretty sure it is the same or close for Vista. Make D: the active
partition, on the next boot it will be C: and you can install Vista there if
you like, avoiding use of Vista Boot Manager. Once you have Vista running
the way you like there, clone the partition to the original partition, mark
that partition as active, and it will boot as C:.

Another way to do this is to figure out how to use Vista Boot Manager and
bcdedit. You will also need a program called bootsect.exe from the Setup
DVD. There are lots of articles on TechNet,
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx.

Earle