Posted January 6, 200420 yr I have Drive Image 7 and I have used it to make back up images of my PC. I am now thinking about swapping my IDE HDD for 2 SATA in RAID. Has anyone ever done a restore of an image on one or more brand new drives with Drive Image 7? I want to make sure that I can do it this way before I buy the drives.
January 19, 200420 yr The real question to ask is if you restore your system to SATA drives, will the operating system boot up as it will probably need SATA drivers to be present to be able to function correctly. Regards, Martyn
January 19, 200420 yr Making a radical system change, like moving from a single PATA drive to a SATA RAID system, usually is best done with a clean OS install. Your data might be better saved if you use more of a traditional backup rather than an imaging (partition sizes, drive sizes, drive type will all be different, makes for an odd reimaging experience) -The Gavster Three students died that year at the academy; one was executed, one was killed in a training accident, and one died of natural causes, for a knife to back will naturally kill anyone. -RA Salvatore Like to IRC? Try http://irc.randomirc.com
January 20, 200420 yr FPCH Admin I did what you are going to do twice with Windows 2000. I went from ATA to SCSI the first time. Didn't have a problem. When Windows booted the first time it installed the scsi drivers. I also did this after I changed from one computer to the other. This was a SCSI to ATA change. As long as there is a native driver in WinXP for SATA you shouldn't have a problem. Worse case is do a repair with the install cd. Off Topic Forum - Unlike the Rest
February 9, 200420 yr Author Well, I had a first-hand chance to try it out, because my HDD completely died last weekend. Well, needless to say, PowerQuest software is not the best thing for rapid recovery - even at home. The PowerQuest Boot CD didn't recognize my NIC so I couldn't get to the images on my file server. Symantec (who bought PQ) had crap for help on their "FAQs." And I wasn't about to pay $30 to call them. They STILL haven't responded to my support e-mail. Idiots even wanted the PowerQuest utility to create a partition info file for the HDD or the e-mail wouldn't fo through - but the drive is dead!!! So, I copied the image onto a second HDD, and ran the restore from the local machine. Seemed to work, but it wouldn't boot up. Not only that, the new drive was 120GB and DriveImage created a 60GB image (size of old drive.) It was so nice that the PQ Boot CD grayed out the check box to use the whole drive space. In summary, what a piece of crap software and support from Symantec. $70 for PC peace of mind - instead I got a $70 piece of ca-ca.
