A note on Image Backup

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Hi all, as you already know, W7 image backup facility takes a backup foy our entire installation.

What I found out recently though is that although my installation was only 80GB, it made a note that the volume it came from was 598GB (two 300gb disks in raid 0).

I wanted to use the restore to re-instate the installation onto one drive and use the other for a free BSD distro.

The error mesage when I used the restore disc to recover the installation told me that the volume was now too small to re-instate on, and a bigger volume was to be used. I had to reinstate the RAID in order to reinstate my image backup.
 

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Laptop
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Lenovo
OS
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
CPU
Intel Core Quad 9550
Motherboard
Mobile Intel QM87 Express Chipset
Memory
16GB factory installed
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA Quadro K2100M
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Onboard
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Apple iMac 27" display
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2560 x 1440
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160gb factory fitted ssd
512gb pcie m2 2242 ssd
Did you image the DRIVE or PARTITION?

Using other backup utilities (Norton or Acronis), when making "base" images (after freshly paving a system), i will shrink the partition using Acronis Disk Director, then make the partition image... this gives me more options when recovering later...
 

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Lenovo T61
OS
Windows 7/2008
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core2duo 2.0
Motherboard
Mobile Intel 965 chipset
Memory
4GB
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia Quadro NVS140M
Hard Drives
WD3200BEKT (7200rpm)
Check the settings given when you cue up the Win7 backup image to reimage.

There are settings which cover refitting.
 
I had similar problems when I replaced my hard drive. Thought it was going to be a doddle to make an image and then restore it on the new drive, it wouldn't do it - tried partitioning the new drive to the same size as my old C, tried making it bigger than my old C, but nope - had to do a clean install from scratch.

Not impressed, but then, the files & settings transfer wizard in XP never worked properly either :(
 

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Self build
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Windows 7 Pro 32bit
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AMD Phenom triple core - 2GHz
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ECS GF8100VM-M5
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Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS
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Onboard Realtek HD audio
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2 x LG Flatron L1718S
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1 x Seagate 1TB - partitioned 40GB (C:) - 60GB (D:) - 830GB (E:)
1 x Seagate 1TB - USB external
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CID Boy said:
I had similar problems when I replaced my hard drive. Thought it was going to be a doddle to make an image and then restore it on the new drive, it wouldn't do it - tried partitioning the new drive to the same size as my old C, tried making it bigger than my old C, but nope - had to do a clean install from scratch.

Not impressed, but then, the files & settings transfer wizard in XP never worked properly either :(
Click to expand...

What imaging program were you using?

Macrium Reflect free version is highly recommended if you don't get the variability you want with Win7 Backup Imaging. It does block out a lot of options, seems.
 
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