Gil, Thanks a lot. I've been plagued with this problem for a while now. Your clarifications and the r-tt website is making me think I'll be able to accomplished this with no problems. BTW, the PC is using IDE drives so the SATA issue you described shouldn't come into play.
Thanks again! John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Hale Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 08:41 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NF] Drive Imaging > can then install a new larger drive and then restore > the image to > this new drive? BTW, there is one little behavior characteristic with r_DriveImage that you may need to be aware of. If the replacement Boot Drive is a SATA Drive you will need to place it into the PC/Server as a 2nd HDD and restore the image to it (make sure you tell the app it is to be the Active Partition/Boot Drive). After restoring the image to the larger drive, then shut down the machine and swap out the drives. Why? The one limitation I found is when you use the r_DriveImage Boot CD to do a bare metal image restore, it will not recognize SATA HDD units. In my case it is no big deal as I have a machine I use for nothing but drive data recovery that has IDE, SATA, USB, Firewire & SCSI interfaces. In your case you may not have that available so readily. That said, I still feel r_DriveImage is the way to go for Server Drive imaging. Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony J. Gundrum > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [NF] Drive Imaging > > > Gil, > > I have a situation where a server 2003 is running out of disk space on the > system drive. Will r_DriveImage allow me to create an image of that drive > so that I can then install a new larger drive and then restore > the image to > this new drive? > > Thanks, > John G. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Gil Hale > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 17:45 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [NF] XP SP2 vx SP3 > > > Hi Gil. What do you use to image your HDDs? > > > > kc > > > > > > I use r-tt.com r_DriveImage ($45!) for any Windows Server platform (and > sometimes for Windows workstations), and either Norton Ghost v-9+ > or Norton > Save & Restore for Windows 2000 Pro and XP. For filf-by-file > backups I use > SyncBack. Check out my document on my ftp Server for more goodies: > > ftp://gilhale.dnsalias.com/_Bullet-ProofYourData > > Chock full of good info, more than just backup and image stuff. > > > Ciao! > > Gil > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Casey McGuire > > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:17 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [NF] XP SP2 vx SP3 > > > > > > Gil Hale wrote: > > > Even though I image my boot HDDs weekly, I would want to > > perform a separate > > > image just before doing an update to SP3 just in case anything > > did go wrong. > > > But if something went wrong I can't take the time to fix it > > (revert back to > > > SP2) even if it a simple image recovery. So, I am styaing at > > SP2 for now. > > > > Hi Gil. What do you use to image your HDDs? > > > > kc > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
