After Increasing Ram A Restored Image Didn't Boot.

[DwnNdrty]

Has anyone else run into this .... I increased the ram from 512 mb to 1 Gb and afterwards restored an Image that was made pre 1 Gb. When I booted the drive, right after the line that looks for a bootable Cd I got "Error loading operating system".
I'm using the bootable cd ver 9 build 3677 with BartPE. The Image was made with it and so was the restore effort. I also tried the ver 2009 bootable CD for the restore with the same result. I think I must have done close to 50 good restores with that TI/Bart cd previously.
After I reinstalled the 512 mb of ram, and re-did the restore the drive booted fine. I've since done another Backup with the 1 Gb ram installed but haven't tried a restore yet ... probably do so in the next few days.
The system is a 5-yr old Athlon 1GHz computer, now with 1 Gb ram.

The OS is XP Pro Sp2.

[seekforever]

Strange alright. There seems to be some stuff out on the net about memory problems but I must admit the fact yours sort of works sure makes it appear less likely.

Humour me and do my favorite thing - run memtest86+ overnight on the new memory.

I did have a no boot problem once due to a bad stick in what was probably the lower memory location; worked OK for booting when swapped around but did marginally fail memtest86+.

[DwnNdrty]

Well, better than the memtest, I made a Backup with the 1Gb ram installed and restored that Backup to a spare drive .... worked perfectly as it did for Backup and Restore with 512 installed for both processes.

The only thing I can think of is that True Image thinks the Backup (from when 512 ram is installed) is being restored to a different computer when it has the 1 Gb ram installed.

[MudCrab]

Does the image created with 1GB RAM restore correctly if you drop the RAM back down to 512MB?

I wouldn't think that the amount of RAM would adversely affect the TI restore.

[DwnNdrty]

-{ Quote: "Does the image created with 1GB RAM restore correctly if you drop the RAM back down to 512MB?

I wouldn't think that the amount of RAM would adversely affect the TI restore." }-

Somehow I just knew somebody was going to ask this. ;D . You are as curious as I am Mudcrab. And I plan to try this maybe tomorrow and will post the result.

[nb47]

If 'Mudcrab' is right(& he usually is) once you get to a restore with old ram then put in the extra ram & THEN make a 'new' backup copying the most recent one with the extra ram-should work then but I can't be sure though.*puppy*

[DwnNdrty]

-{ Quote: "Does the image created with 1GB RAM restore correctly if you drop the RAM back down to 512MB?

I wouldn't think that the amount of RAM would adversely affect the TI restore." }-

Yes, the Image created with the 1Gb ram installed restores okay on the system when the ram is 512Mb. (Thank goodness for spare drives and removable racks ;D ).

I'll chalk the problem down to True Image's pickiness with hardware. Anyway we're sailing smoothly with 1Gb ram from now on. :)