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Old 12-22-2007   #1 (permalink)
LarryW


 
 

Computer backup restore

I'm trying to replace the FastTrak-controlled-mirrored 120GB SATA drives in
my Dell Dimension 8300 with a pair of 320GB drives. I've replaced the
drives, mirrored them, partitioned and formatted them into C:, and D: and E:
are in an extended partition, same layout as before but the partitions are
each larger. I'd done a Vista 'complete backup' before swapping the drives to
a removable USB external hard disk. When I boot from the Vista install disk,
I put in the CD that contains the SATA FastTrak drivers and when I get to the
tools I can go to the command line. The problem is that the new hard disk
partitions are seen as F:, G:, and H: but the complete restore wants to
restore them to C: (which says it's a device not ready when I do a 'dir'), D:
(which is the Vista install CD), and E: (which is the SATA drivers CD) so
when I try the restore it says it can't complete. How do I get this
configuration to see them as C:, D:, and E: so I can do the restore? Thanks!


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Old 12-23-2007   #2 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate X64
 
 

Re: Computer backup restore

Larry,
If you go to Control Panel > System> System Protection. I think if you click "create" button you can specify where you want to make a restore at. Then when you try the restore windows will know to look at that directory.

Raj
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Old 12-23-2007   #3 (permalink)
LarryW


 
 

Re: Computer backup restore

In article <rajinisback.321dd8@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net>, Rajinisback wrote:
Quote:

> From: rajinisback <rajinisback.321dd8@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net>
> Subject: Re: Computer backup restore
> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:32:38 -0600
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
>
> Larry,
> If you go to Control Panel > System> System Protection. I think if you
> click "create" button you can specify where you want to make a restore
> at. Then when you try the restore windows will know to look at that
> directory.
>
> Raj
>
> --
> rajinisback
>
But this is when I'm booted from the install DVD doing a 'restore' from it
without doing an install. There is no 'control panel' that I can find.

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