FDISR and Restoring an image.

[kennyboy]

I need to restore an image of my C: drive which includes 2 FDR snapshots in Windows 7.
As Win 7 requires a special installation procedure for FDISR, in SP, do I need to specify to restore MBR and Disk Hidden Track, in order to avoid having to re-install FDISR?
Thanks

[Peter2150]

Originally Posted by kennyboy

I need to restore an image of my C: drive which includes 2 FDR snapshots in Windows 7.
As Win 7 requires a special installation procedure for FDISR, in SP, do I need to specify to restore MBR and Disk Hidden Track, in order to avoid having to re-install FDISR?
Thanks

Assuming SP is Shadowprotect, and also assuming one partition, I always restore the MBR and Disk Hidden track. No problems with FDISR under XP, and if you imaged a working Win 7 FDISR installation, I see no reason it shouldn't restore properly.

Pete

[kennyboy]

Originally Posted by Peter2150

Assuming SP is Shadowprotect, and also assuming one partition, I always restore the MBR and Disk Hidden track. No problems with FDISR under XP, and if you imaged a working Win 7 FDISR installation, I see no reason it shouldn't restore properly.

Pete

Thankyou

[Longboard]

Results ??

[Rilla927]

Originally Posted by Longboard

Results ??

I would like to know too!

[JW Clements]

I've done this exactly as Pete said above. I was switching from an HDD to an SSD with both W7 & XP snapshots.
The only thing that I had to do was 'shrink' the partition on the HDD down to the size of the smaller SSD when in W7. I had to do this in several steps because W7 wouldn't let me do it in one 'big shrink' step.

[kennyboy]

Sorry for the delay in replying.

I don't have any definitive results for you to go on I'm afraid. I failed to restore the image due to SP reporting that the partition did not have enough free space to take the image. Difficult to see why, because I was restoring to a blank newly formatted HD, (the same disk from which the image was taken.) After going around in circles with Sp's own solutions, and having no success, I ended up re-installing the entire system.
I know that the latest version of SP has a workaround for this problem, but I fail to understand why SP has this problem when no other imaging software that I use does not.
Anyway, sorry for not being able to report any results.

[JW Clements]

Originally Posted by kennyboy

I failed to restore the image due to SP reporting that the partition did not have enough free space to take the image.

When you make an image do you include or exclude the free space?

because I was restoring to a blank newly formatted HD, (the same disk from which the image was taken.)

Why reformat the drive? Did you change something such as sector size or partition size?

I know that the latest version of SP has a workaround for this problem,

Which version of SP are you using?

[kennyboy]

Originally Posted by JW Clements

When you make an image do you include or exclude the
free space?

Excluded.

Why reformat the drive? Did you change something such as sector size or partition size?

No changes. Was some time ago, so not sure why a format was needed.

Which version of SP are you using?

Stopped using SP since, but from memory it was version 3.52 Recovery Disk.

Now use alternative imaging software.