John Bird wrote on Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:59 a.m.: > This also allows the restore to go > onto a different type/geometry of disk drive.
I'm not sure where this idea of drive geometry being an issue comes from - as long as the partition can be resized to fit the new drive then there should be no problems. All imaging software should be able to do this and Windows should not care. > What more does replacing the HAL cover? AFAIK, everything to do with the machine's hardware. > Does it mean if you replace a fried PC with a different make and > model you can install the same Windows image onto it? I presume > although I have never tried it that this cannot be done from a normal > image restore? That's the idea. You can sometimes get around this (at least with Windows 2000, not sure about XP / 2003) by using the "repair" functionality on the installation CD, but it's tricky and something built into the imaging software would clearly be better. I might add that non-Windows OSes largely do not suffer from this problem. Cheers, Paul --------------------------------------------------------- Paul Eggleton Ph: +64-9-4154790 Software Developer Fax: +64-9-4154791 CJN Technologies Ltd. DDI: +64-9-4154795 http://www.cjntech.co.nz Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
