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    issues when migrating to new hard drive

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by 4mal, Mar 24, 2009.

  1. 4mal

    4mal Notebook Enthusiast

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    I got Vista installed using the Recovery disk set. Now I want to restore the system image I took prior to swapping the drive out. I booted from the Recue and Recovery cd and - Restore can't see the USB drive. The USB drive works fine when booting from the hdd though ...

    any suggestions ?
     
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    Dump it onto the hard drive in explorer.
     
    ZaZ, Mar 25, 2009
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    Thank you sir! I'm working on that now ... Jackalope ? I have enough issues with cat & dog hair ...
     
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    ah, I see.
    Well I have to be doing something wrong here. I've copied my backup over to the local drive. When I boot from the Rescue & Recovery cd and select Restore, either the full system or the OS and applications choices - nothing shows up in the list box under local drives.

    The backup was made using the Backup & Restore Center utiility from the Vista Control Panel to my external USB drive. I moved the directory over from the root of the USB drive to the root of C. There is sits in a folder named C:\WindowsImageBackup.

    That folder contains two backups. One of the mahcine as it exists now and one of the original drive - which is of course the one I want to restore...

    My new drive has C & D partitions. I shrank the existing C and created D from the remainder using Vista. I've tried locating that folder on D and also on C and have had the same resaults - nada in the list box.

    What the heck is it actually looking for ?
     
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    I'm not really a Rescue and Recovery guru. Perhaps someone else can chime in here. I much prefer True Image. I like to do a clean install on a its own partition, then make an image of the partition, leaving my data on another partition. Then I can put the image back or on a new drive if needed. The benefit of this way is you can wipe the OS partition without touching the data.
     
    ZaZ, Mar 25, 2009
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