roxe

roxe wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2013 at 12:52am:


No problems. Now that your Win7 is Generalized the Disk Signature is irrelevant.

Another test with a Generalized Win7.

Ghost can't restore a partition image to a wiped, zeroed HD. But all you need to do is write bootstrap code (or Initialize in Disk Management). The Disk Signature can still be all zeroes. On the restore screen you can select a custom partition size for the restore. If you select a value too small, Ghost changes it to the minimum size that will hold the data. I tried the smallest partition size. Win7 booted and there was 26 MB of Free Space in the partition.

NightOwl

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Nah, that's too easy... I had to harrass Brian 


Really, this time... nitey nite...

Brian

Brian wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2013 at 1:02am:

Right!  My bad  !

Brian wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2013 at 1:11am:

Ghost 2003 can only restore a partition from an image file to an existing partition (partition to partition).  It should allow you to do a *partition to disk* restore--it will create the needed partitioning and formatting.

But, bootstrap code does not create a partition for Ghost to restore to--I did not expect that Ghost 2003 would be willing to create a new partition to do a partition to partition restore--I always though you had to manually create a destination partition first.

Brian wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2013 at 1:11am:

Maybe, you had selected *partition to whole disk* restore, and then you were given the option to control what portion of the whole disk to use on that next page?

NightOwl

NightOwl wrote on Sep 24^th, 2013 at 12:07pm:


I repeated the test as I'm interested in the answer too. The source HD was 640 GB with multiple partitions. I imaged a 15 GB Win7 64-bit partition containing 10 GB of data. Win7 was "generalized".

The target HD was also 640 GB and on checking the MBR with a disk editor it was empty of partitions. There was boot code, a zeroed Disk Signature and no partitions.

I did a Local, Partition, From Image. On the "Select destination partition from Basic drive" box there was a single line showing...

NEW, Primary, 07, NTFS, No name, 610477, 0

These refer to..

Part, Type, ID, Description, Label, Size, Data Size

Remember, this drive is entirely unallocated space but Ghost is calling it a NTFS partition. The 610477 field is editable. Out of interest I chose 333333. Ghost restored the image.

Win7 64-bit booted, partition size 325 GB.

I tried again just so I could look at Local, Disk, From Image. The "Destination Drive Details" box showed...

1, Primary, 07, NTFS, Diskload, 96397, 15000, 10812

These refer to..

Part, Type, ID, Description, Label, New Size, Old Size, Data Size

The 96397 field is editable. Out of interest I chose 222222. Ghost restored the image.

Win7 64-bit booted, partition size 217 GB.


Edit... In this old post, Reply #19

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1155827177/15

I reported restoring a Ghost 2003 image to unallocated space.

Brian

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OK, how about when you get a new computer which needs different drivers???  eh???

...splain that one 

roxe

roxe wrote on Sep 30^th, 2013 at 8:37pm:


That can be done easily but learning how to do it is not so easy. TeraByte Unlimited has a script for it. I have the WinXP and Win7 from my old Dell computer running on this computer which has an Asus motherboard. I've restored images from OS on laptops to desktop computers and vice versa.

But in general, I do install a new OS when I have a new computer. But it never gets installed a second time on that computer. I never reformat.

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