John Farrar
December 4th, 2004, 11:21 AM
As I had some concerns over replacing an ATA 100/133 hardrive with a SATA type I decided to run a simulation.
First. My computer comprises an Intel P4 3.2ghz with 1GB RAM
The motherboard is an Asus P4C800E-Deluxe.
Hardrives are 60gb and 20GB both with Windows XP Pro as a dual boot system. (I use OSLoader as Acronis' OS Selector could not see one OS)
Also a SATA 160GB hd and a Freecom 80GB USB external hd. Not a RAID system. Images of all 3 internal hardrives are stored on the Freecom USB drive.
The test. I disconnected both of the IDE drives, leaving just the SATA 160GB and USB drive connected. I booted from the TrueImage rescue CD and selected the C: backup stored on the USB drive. (For some reason the 160GB drive was showing as a SCSI drive ???) I said YES to deleting all partitions and the image was reported restored sucessfully. It took 30 minutes for the restore process.
Rebooted the PC into Windows with no problems. The 160GB drive was now showing as a 60GB drive but there is 100GB of unallocated space which can be recovered. So TrueImage had no problem in accessing the USB drive and restoring to my SATA drive. SATA drivers were not an issue it seems.
Then I rebooted into TrueImage CD again and restored the 160GB back to its original state. Reconnected the other 2 drives and all is back as it was. So my concerns over having to use sysprep were unfounded thank goodness.
True Image worked flawlessly I have to say so the program, at least for me, does what it says.
HTH
John
First. My computer comprises an Intel P4 3.2ghz with 1GB RAM
The motherboard is an Asus P4C800E-Deluxe.
Hardrives are 60gb and 20GB both with Windows XP Pro as a dual boot system. (I use OSLoader as Acronis' OS Selector could not see one OS)
Also a SATA 160GB hd and a Freecom 80GB USB external hd. Not a RAID system. Images of all 3 internal hardrives are stored on the Freecom USB drive.
The test. I disconnected both of the IDE drives, leaving just the SATA 160GB and USB drive connected. I booted from the TrueImage rescue CD and selected the C: backup stored on the USB drive. (For some reason the 160GB drive was showing as a SCSI drive ???) I said YES to deleting all partitions and the image was reported restored sucessfully. It took 30 minutes for the restore process.
Rebooted the PC into Windows with no problems. The 160GB drive was now showing as a 60GB drive but there is 100GB of unallocated space which can be recovered. So TrueImage had no problem in accessing the USB drive and restoring to my SATA drive. SATA drivers were not an issue it seems.
Then I rebooted into TrueImage CD again and restored the 160GB back to its original state. Reconnected the other 2 drives and all is back as it was. So my concerns over having to use sysprep were unfounded thank goodness.
True Image worked flawlessly I have to say so the program, at least for me, does what it says.
HTH
John