Your thought on the fact where a system has multiple hard drives sounds interesting and makes me think that is a possibility. Also I must point out that it would seem to me that the manner in which the drive in question has been formatted does play a part in the recovery process. You see as I understand it the recovery process simply erases and reloads your data and does not in fact at all reformat your drive. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com VIP Conduit Tech Support www.vipconduit.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan & Terrie Robbins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Image restore quandary
David, After doing some research yesterday, I believe the source of the conflict is in having multiple physical disk drives in the machine I set the new image up in and then burned it. As you know, the BIOS assigns drive #'s and in my case the are 0 & 1. My suspicion is that when I go to restore the image it is looking for a device numbered the same as on the image. That may or may not be so. I consistently get the same message "target device not found, press enter to reboot." I'm wondering if the sightless restore of this program is limited to only restoring the image on the same physical drive it was created from? This has good utility in the event one's system gets screwed up and one wants to simply lay down the unadulterated image again. However, I'm not sure of the program's utility in terms of laying down the image on a different or newly purchased hard drive? Have you had success with this? Regarding your suggestions below, the format of the drive I don't think that would matter as all info is erased and the image then is put down. The format will be that of what the image is. The hard drive is the same brand but different size. I've played with many options, even installing the image from the DVD onto the extra drive while system is up and running. It installs the image ok, but when the hard drive is removed and put into the other computer, the system won't boot. Keep the ideas coming and I'll keep researching thanks, Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of David Ferrin Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Image restore quandary Is the new drive formatted the same way as the old drive was? Also is it the same type of drive? David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com VIP Conduit Tech Support www.vipconduit.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan & Terrie Robbins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Image restore quandary David, Thanks, I'll spare you the long version (ha, ha). A simple way to sum all this up would be say I have a good image on a DVD and my current hard drive bites the dust. I go to the store and buy a new one. I partition it an put it in the machine and attempt to lay down the image on it and get what I described to you at the end of the message. Suggestions? Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of David Ferrin Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 5:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Image restore quandary Al all I can say is if this is a brief description please don't give me the long version because I will have to read it very carefully before even having a chance of grasping a handle on what you ultimately ended up with. Confused in Pennsylvania. I'll review it further. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com VIP Conduit Tech Support www.vipconduit.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan & Terrie Robbins" <[email protected]> To: "Blind-Computing" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 4:30 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Image restore quandary Well the subject says it all. I will try to be as brief below as possible to explain my dilemma and hopefully find a simple answer that I am obviously overlooking. About a month ago I purchased Image For Windows and am thrilled with the program. I have successfully created and restored two different images with no problem. Here is my current dilemma. I have two Acer computers. I'll call them Intel and A M D so as to not confuse them in the below dialogue I'm describing. My primary in home networked computer was the Intel. The A M D computer as well as my wife's worked off this Intel unit. The computer had not been re formatted for about a year and a half and I also wanted to swap it out for the A M D machine which has a faster processor and twice the memory. I know the hours it can take to set a computer up from scratch so I figured I would simply take the hard drive out of the A M D computer and use it to set up the Intel computer as time permitted. The first thing I did was to use the Image for Windows program to create an image of the A M D computer. I then restored that image to confirm it worked prior to taking the hard drive out and using it in the Intel machine. I also created an image of the Intel machine before doing anything just in case something went amuck. I then unplugged the Intel hard drive and plugged the A M D one into that unit. I got the factory restore disks out for the Intel computer and installed them on the A M D hard drive which was now temporarily in the Intel unit. This erased all data on the A M D hard drive and created the factory image of the Intel computer. Everything worked well and I installed JAWS, a few other key programs I wanted and then burned a new image with image for windows to use a starting point from now on with the Intel computer so I did not need to take hours setting it up from scratch again. I then removed the A M D hard drive from the Intel computer and plugged the Intel one back in. The Intel computer booted up fine and picked up from where it left off prior to switching hard drives. I then took the A M D hard drive and put it back in the A M D machine and put the original A M D image I had created prior to starting this project back on it. The A M d computer booted up fine (Just like David said it would) and it was if nothing had ever changed. Now, for the dilemma. I wanted to put the new image I created on the Intel machine on the Intel hard drive to in essence have a new, freshly formatted computer. The image will not go on that hard drive. What happens is I put the initial disk in the it boots just like it is supposed to. The tray comes out and asks for the last disk of the set. I put that in, the DVD whirs for a minute and then the tray comes out and asks for the first disk again. When I put this back in I do not get the dialogue asking for the Y or N to proceed and put that image on the hard drive. It goes back to a basic screen saying boot device cannot be found, press enter to continue. When I do this the same process repeats but I never can get anywhere. I thought there may be something wrong with the Intel machine so I took the hard drive out and put it in the A M D machine (unplugging the A M D hard drives) to try on that machine which I know works and same thing happened. I have even deleted all partitions on the Intel hard drive and created and formatted new ones to emulate a new hard drive and same out come as above. Anyone have a solution as to how I can get the image I made with image for windows on that Intel hard drive? thanks Al For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
