Paul wrote: > 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.
I am thinking, perhaps incorrectly, that the drive partition INFORMATION needs to be accurate. If a system drive image restore restores the wrong partition information, we are not in the right place when we are done. However, if the partition information is always external to an image restore process (is it?), there shouldn't be an issue as far as drive changes are concerned, provided the target partition is big enough. As you say, the other HAL issues which could go wrong if the HAL being restored is from a different machine, relate to all the obvious hardware drivers et al. It's the same issue that would arise if you took a physical boot/system drive out of machine X and put it in different-machine Y and expected it to work. It might, to some extent. It usually would bomb. And system repair may or may not help. cheers, peter _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
