Vista - recovering from disk crash...

> It's been awhile since I dual booted XP and Vista so I don't fully recall
> about the drives. My, "Hmm" had more to do with why it changed or did I
> misunderstand?
> If it does change to something not recognized by your installed apps, you
> might be able to use Disk Management to change the drive to what you want or
> need.
>
> I'm not sure if Vista will let you copy a partition over it but Ghost will
> allow you to restore the Ghost image. If that is want you meant by copy,
> then, yes. If not, you used Ghost to clone the drive to the USB drive or
> I'm assuming that is the case? If you did use Ghost for that purpose, then
> use Ghost go bring it back to your current Vista partition.
>



MSDN Technical Support, whom I just got off the telephone with, says that if I "clone back" by previously cloned copy of my Vista partition atop my currently running copy of Vista, using Norton Ghost that I should be able to reboot directly onto my previous copy of Vista, including all applications and data, without any problem whatsoever.

Tech Support claims I will not have to go into Vista repair at all... although they will not vouch for any third party software, such as Norton Ghost.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

Ross

(Just another data item: I ran a System File Checker (SFC) on my backup Vista disk with the following options:

sfc /scannow /offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=h:\windows

off a privileged command prompt and it came back clean -- no modifications, everything on the "H:" drive (on the new Vista installation, which is actually my back up)

I'm beginning to feel comfortable...

Which is making me very uncomfortable... :-)

Ross

"ross m. greenberg" <greenber@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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>
>> It's been awhile since I dual booted XP and Vista so I don't fully recall
>> about the drives. My, "Hmm" had more to do with why it changed or did I
>> misunderstand?
>> If it does change to something not recognized by your installed apps, you
>> might be able to use Disk Management to change the drive to what you want
>> or
>> need.
>>
>> I'm not sure if Vista will let you copy a partition over it but Ghost
>> will
>> allow you to restore the Ghost image. If that is want you meant by copy,
>> then, yes. If not, you used Ghost to clone the drive to the USB drive or
>> I'm assuming that is the case? If you did use Ghost for that purpose,
>> then
>> use Ghost go bring it back to your current Vista partition.
>>
>
>
> MSDN Technical Support, whom I just got off the telephone with, says that
> if I "clone back" by previously cloned copy of my Vista partition atop my
> currently running copy of Vista, using Norton Ghost that I should be able
> to reboot directly onto my previous copy of Vista, including all
> applications and data, without any problem whatsoever.
>
> Tech Support claims I will not have to go into Vista repair at all...
> although they will not vouch for any third party software, such as Norton
> Ghost.
>
> I'm keeping my fingers crossed...
>
> Ross
>

Well, assuming the clone was a single boot installation or, if dual boot,
the dual boot config remained intact on the XP setup. But if you were
booting directly into XP in order to restore your cloned drive, that would
indicate XP was now in single boot mode. Of course, if you had left the
dual boot config intact and were booting into XP off the dual boot menu,
then yes, I'd agree, you probably should be able to boot back into Vista
with no repair. Of course, by the time you read this, you should already
know the answer!:-)
--
Michael Solomon
Backup is a PC user's best friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

> Well, assuming the clone was a single boot installation or, if dual boot,
> the dual boot config remained intact on the XP setup. But if you were
> booting directly into XP in order to restore your cloned drive, that would
> indicate XP was now in single boot mode. Of course, if you had left the
> dual boot config intact and were booting into XP off the dual boot menu,
> then yes, I'd agree, you probably should be able to boot back into Vista
> with no repair. Of course, by the time you read this, you should already
> know the answer!:-)


My current installation is a dual-boot situation where I can boot into my old XP, or into the new Vista installation. Microsoft had just called to follow up on where I am. I did not want to do anything on a Sunday, since no one would be available to bail me out if things turned to feces.

MSDN/Microsoft tech support just called me. As far as they know I should be able to do a "copy my entire hard drive" over my current of Vista from my backup Vista, using Norton Ghost 12 without any problem at all.

Of course, since Ghost is a third-party product Microsoft says they can guarantee nothing. But if I tried to do this backup/restore and it doesn't work I have the wonderful option of simply reinstalling the Vista.

This is so much fun: nobody can give me a straight/definitive answer.

We hates this!

Ross

PS: Michael, send me your e-mail address/phone number when you have a chance? I for one do not use anti-spam addresses as some people do...

"ross m. greenberg" <greenber@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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>
>
>> Well, assuming the clone was a single boot installation or, if dual boot,
>> the dual boot config remained intact on the XP setup. But if you were
>> booting directly into XP in order to restore your cloned drive, that
>> would
>> indicate XP was now in single boot mode. Of course, if you had left the
>> dual boot config intact and were booting into XP off the dual boot menu,
>> then yes, I'd agree, you probably should be able to boot back into Vista
>> with no repair. Of course, by the time you read this, you should already
>> know the answer!:-)
>
> My current installation is a dual-boot situation where I can boot into my
> old XP, or into the new Vista installation. Microsoft had just called to
> follow up on where I am. I did not want to do anything on a Sunday, since
> no one would be available to bail me out if things turned to feces.
>
> MSDN/Microsoft tech support just called me. As far as they know I should
> be able to do a "copy my entire hard drive" over my current of Vista from
> my backup Vista, using Norton Ghost 12 without any problem at all.
>
> Of course, since Ghost is a third-party product Microsoft says they can
> guarantee nothing. But if I tried to do this backup/restore and it
> doesn't work I have the wonderful option of simply reinstalling the Vista.
>
> This is so much fun: nobody can give me a straight/definitive answer.
>
> We hates this!
>
> Ross
>
> PS: Michael, send me your e-mail address/phone number when you have a
> chance? I for one do not use anti-spam addresses as some people do...
>
You've got Mail.

Sounds like you're good to go...restore that clone already!

--
Michael Solomon
Backup is a PC user's best friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/