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Last edited by Brink; 02 Feb 2013 at 14:41. Reason: added quote
System Image Recovery
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Thanks
Thank you very much Brink,
That is all I needed to know..Was worried about restoring the raid as I had problems with Acronis years ago..Not detecting the raid volume..
Again sorry about steering you in the wrong direction...
Ron
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System recovery from image with new hardware other than drives
I rebuilt my computer with a new motherboard, CPU and RAM. I had created a system image onto an external hard drive. I installed the new hardware with the old HDD, configured in the same way (2x 1tb striped together, giving a usable vol of about 1.8 tb). When I start the restore (step 12), it errors out saying that my drive is too small. I've read that the image needs to be restored to a volume of equal or greater size than the volume that was imaged. I figured that it would work for me because I'm trying restore the image to EXACTLY the same drives configured in exactly the same way as before. The only difference now being the motherboard/cpu/RAM, which are about 5 years newer than what I had before. Here are the things I have tried, cleaning/formatting the drives in between, and which didn't work:
1. Open up diskpart in the command prompt and clean the drives, restripe them, format to ntfs and assign a name and drive letter and make active. Make the new drive as top boot priority, or second to the dvd in BIOS.
2. Use the motherboard RAID utility to stripe the drives, use diskpart and BIOS to do the appropriate steps in #1
3. Same as 2, except without doing any of the diskpart steps. This led to different errors, as one could imagine
4. Span the drives with a 500gb drive to make a larger volume using diskpart, creating the partition, making active, BIOS priority, etc
5. Create a stripe with the motherboard RAID utility and spanning that volume (2tb) with the 500gb in diskpart (the utility doesn't do spanning, probably because spanning isn't a great way to use multiple hard drives), then formatting and assigning a drive letter, etc.
These are the basic variations. Even when I created a larger volume and the computer finds it, (I verified that the computer is finding the new volume by looking for drivers to install to see if the volume shows up under My Computer, which it does), it still won't restore.
What am I missing? Is it the new hardware? Can I get around having to do a clean install?
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Here are some guidelines
Windows 7 Installation - Transfer to a New Computer
Frankly I would not bother. I'd definitely do a clean install deactivating programs like Photoshop before a clean install. MS will take care of most of the basic drivers but for graphics drivers I'd download from the manufacturer's website (eg.Nvidia). I think you are starting clean and less likely to have follow on problems. For Windows 7 of course do an SP1 install. Unless you have a multi use retail OS package it can only be installed on one PC. Retail OSs can be transferred.
OEM OS's can't be legally transferred between motherboards.
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My wife's notebook has a keyboard problem I just can't fix. I will try some "extreme" solutions, but before I do I will create a system image backup.
The first solution I will try is to restore the system to the original factory settings. In case this doesn't work I will do the system image recovery covered here.
So I ask you: Will this restore the system to the state it was before, in spite of the original factory settings restoration?
TIA.
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New #366
Hello Paul,
That's correct, doing a system image recovery will restore your complete system to how it was when the previously created system image was created.
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I'm not sure of the logic here. I would normally suggest restoring a system image before a factory restore. Also, what has this to do with a keyboard problem? You may want to try and boot a light weight linux or even a system repair CD and see if your keyboard problem persists. If the problem persists then it's more than likely you have a hardware problem. Does the notebook allow connection of an external keyboard? - If so then give that a go.
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Ok. But I assume you then go through the hassle of reinstalling your software which could be the source of any driver conflict.
I would still check the keyboard with a boot CD. The system repair cd should suffice.
Also, a safe mode boot will load minimal drivers and is worth a try. If the keyboard issue goes away then you have some justification for a driver conflict.
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