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Precision 360 SCSI to P360 IDE ???
Aug 4^th, 2007 at 8:27pm

Hello:

I made an image for the Dell Precision 360 i'm using. The P360 i'm using is using a SCSI hard drive and SCSI PCI card. I know nothing about how SCSI works, except I see the computer takes longer to start while it loads SCSI drivers or something.

My question is, if I restore the image from this machine to a P360 that is virtually identical except that it uses an IDE hard drive and no SCSI PCI card, will it start and run or will there by a conflict because the image was originally set up to run with SCSI?

Thank you for any and all help!

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Re: Precision 360 SCSI to P360 IDE ???
Reply #1 - Aug 5^th, 2007 at 12:30am

Lee B wrote on Aug 4^th, 2007 at 8:27pm:

"... My question is, if I restore the image from this machine to a P360 that is virtually identical except that it uses an IDE hard drive and no SCSI PCI card, will it start and run or will there by a conflict because the image was originally set up to run with SCSI?..."

Not sure about the applicability of my own experience, but I did a Norton Ghost 2003 "(whole)disk-to-image" Backup of a 60GB Maxtor IDE MASTER HDD on my Dell Dimension 8100 and then performed a Ghost Restore with no problem to a 120GB Maxtor SATA 150 HDD which became the replacement MASTER HDD via a PCI-to-SATA adapter card.

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Re: Precision 360 SCSI to P360 IDE ???
Reply #2 - Aug 5^th, 2007 at 9:15am

Lee B wrote on Aug 4^th, 2007 at 8:27pm:

Hello:

I made an image for the Dell Precision 360 i'm using. The P360 i'm using is using a SCSI hard drive and SCSI PCI card. I know nothing about how SCSI works, except I see the computer takes longer to start while it loads SCSI drivers or something.

My question is, if I restore the image from this machine to a P360 that is virtually identical except that it uses an IDE hard drive and no SCSI PCI card, will it start and run or will there by a conflict because the image was originally set up to run with SCSI?

I recently moved an image from one drive to a new drive and ran into a problem. Windows 2000 while booting came up with a message that it could not find the page file and would not let me go forward. I had to boot from a w98 floppy and run fdisk /mbr which fixed the problem. If you do run into this problem, you know the solution!!!

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Re: Precision 360 SCSI to P360 IDE ???
Reply #3 - Aug 5^th, 2007 at 10:19am

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My question is, if I restore the image from this machine to a P360 that is virtually identical except that it uses an IDE hard drive and no SCSI PCI card, will it start and run or will there by a conflict because the image was originally set up to run with SCSI?

What version of Windows are you running?

Whenever you restore an image to another system, there are a multitude of *unknowns*--the concept of *virtually identical* often depends on how Windows *sees* the hardware as recorded in its registry--different HDD controllers have to be *registered* (in the registry) so Windows *knows* how to communicate through that controller with the HDD--EIDE and SCSI are different technologies--yes, they allow you to hook up a HDD to them--but, how they interact with the OS and the HDD is different!

Some posters on the forum here have had to do a WinXP *repair install* in order to get a restored WinXP OS image onto a different system up and running--others have be unsuccessful--so only trying will answer the question(s)!

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	Re: Precision 360 SCSI to P360 IDE ??? Reply #4 - Aug 5^th, 2007 at 4:32pm Thank you! I'd love to know how it came to pass that you learned so much about Ghost! REGARDS, Lee B.
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	Re: Precision 360 SCSI to P360 IDE ??? Reply #5 - Aug 5^th, 2007 at 4:54pm Lee B wrote on Aug 5^th, 2007 at 4:32pm: I'd love to know how it came to pass that you learned so much about Ghost! We've made every mistake that can be made.
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