I am in the process of moving my drives over to newer hardware. Prior to the move, I ran a full image backup on my existing machine. I am running Vista Ultimate full retail and have only ever activated it twice - original build, and a similar move to what I am attempting now - including RAID to RAID setup.
Original machine is Q9650 based 775 and I am moving to an i5-760 based system. OS was originally installed on two 80GB drives in RAID 0. I am keeping the same drives and RAID on the new system. BIOS is already set up and new RAID image has been created (drives are now wiped). Backup was made to a 1.5TB drive on a 200GB partition.
I have run into two issues:
1) If I boot from the install DVD and attempt an image recovery, the pre-installation environment can see the backup on the drive I originally backed up to. However, when I try to restore to the new RAID, it throws an error that there is not enough space on the drive.
Using DISKPART I can see that the drive shows up as a 149GB NTFS partition (same as it originally was). I also made sure it was assigned C:. Image is only ~60GB. So the recovery process is able to see the drive, but still says not enough room.
2) OK - so I figured I could try a clean install and then recover files at least from the system image. After the new install, I run the Backup & Restore utility and select the Advanced option and then the option to restore files from a backup created on another computer. When I point to the drive with the backup on it, Windows throws an error stating there is no backup to be found.
In #1 above, boot off the disk Windows can find the backup just fine (date, backup name, etc. all match what I did on the original machine). But It can't restore because there is not enough space.
In #2 booting into a clean install, Windows claims there is no backup on the drive when I point to the exact same drive from #1 above.
The issue in #1 may be that the original RAID was a 64k stripe and the new one is 128k stripe. Honestly I can't remember. If that is the case, and somehow that 149GB is even one bit smaller, I know Windows will claim the drive is too small.
#2 sucks though. Can't figure out what is going on there. I even took over permissions on the folders thinking that was the issue.
While this would be a great time to move to 7, I have a huge amount of A/V software I am running and I just don't have the time right now to make the switch.
There is one option I may try, and that is to restore to a single, larger drive (I have a spare 500GB laying around) work out all the driver issues with the new hardware, and then cloning that single drive back to the RAID. A little more work, but it may help.
Sorry for such a long post - especially since it is my first! I wanted to provide as much info as I could. I appreciate the time folks took to read and any thoughts/advice you have to offer.
Original machine is Q9650 based 775 and I am moving to an i5-760 based system. OS was originally installed on two 80GB drives in RAID 0. I am keeping the same drives and RAID on the new system. BIOS is already set up and new RAID image has been created (drives are now wiped). Backup was made to a 1.5TB drive on a 200GB partition.
I have run into two issues:
1) If I boot from the install DVD and attempt an image recovery, the pre-installation environment can see the backup on the drive I originally backed up to. However, when I try to restore to the new RAID, it throws an error that there is not enough space on the drive.
Using DISKPART I can see that the drive shows up as a 149GB NTFS partition (same as it originally was). I also made sure it was assigned C:. Image is only ~60GB. So the recovery process is able to see the drive, but still says not enough room.
2) OK - so I figured I could try a clean install and then recover files at least from the system image. After the new install, I run the Backup & Restore utility and select the Advanced option and then the option to restore files from a backup created on another computer. When I point to the drive with the backup on it, Windows throws an error stating there is no backup to be found.
In #1 above, boot off the disk Windows can find the backup just fine (date, backup name, etc. all match what I did on the original machine). But It can't restore because there is not enough space.
In #2 booting into a clean install, Windows claims there is no backup on the drive when I point to the exact same drive from #1 above.
The issue in #1 may be that the original RAID was a 64k stripe and the new one is 128k stripe. Honestly I can't remember. If that is the case, and somehow that 149GB is even one bit smaller, I know Windows will claim the drive is too small.
#2 sucks though. Can't figure out what is going on there. I even took over permissions on the folders thinking that was the issue.
While this would be a great time to move to 7, I have a huge amount of A/V software I am running and I just don't have the time right now to make the switch.
There is one option I may try, and that is to restore to a single, larger drive (I have a spare 500GB laying around) work out all the driver issues with the new hardware, and then cloning that single drive back to the RAID. A little more work, but it may help.
Sorry for such a long post - especially since it is my first! I wanted to provide as much info as I could. I appreciate the time folks took to read and any thoughts/advice you have to offer.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom Build
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-760 Lynnfield - stock
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3
- Memory
- 2X2GB G.Skill 10F3-10600CL9D-4GBPK
- Graphics card(s)
- EVGA 8800 Ultra KO Edition
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 22" Westinghouse LCd from Black Friday a few years ago
- Screen Resolution
- 1680X1050
- Hard Drives
- 2X80GB Seagate ST series in RAID 0 1X1.5TB 1X1TB
- PSU
- Antec Gamer Series HCG-900 900W
- Case
- COOLER MASTER RC-692-KKN3 CM690 II
- Cooling
- Stock (for now)
- Mouse
- Microsoft Wireless Desktop
- Keyboard
- Microsoft Wireless Desktop
- Internet Speed
- Comcast 15/5
