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Sep. 5th, 2016
I hate Microsoft
Sep. 5th, 2016 02:37 pmTurns out that after taking nine hours to create the backup image, I can't restore it.
Why? Because MS in their infinite "wisdom" decided that the drive you are restoring to has to be the same size or larger, not than the parttion you were backing up (C drive which was a 55 gig partition on a 120 gig drive) but as the entire disk!
So I can't restore a 55 gig drive to a 75 gig drive. Yeesh.
One small hope (since none of my rather outdated drive copying tools like the win 7 box) is that it only cars about the *partitioned* size of the drive. so if I remove the second partition on it, Windows recover may be happy. Of course, this means doing the image backup all over again. :-(
If this doesn't work, I can try moving the drive to an external USb case, imaging it with my old software on a box that it works on, restoring it to a much smaller drive (I have a bunch of those) and then making an image backup of that on the win 7 box. *sigh*.
It'd almost be easier to just reinstall from scratch again, but the fine-tuning and fiddling would probably eat up more "me" time (as opposed to "waiting" time
Why? Because MS in their infinite "wisdom" decided that the drive you are restoring to has to be the same size or larger, not than the parttion you were backing up (C drive which was a 55 gig partition on a 120 gig drive) but as the entire disk!
So I can't restore a 55 gig drive to a 75 gig drive. Yeesh.
One small hope (since none of my rather outdated drive copying tools like the win 7 box) is that it only cars about the *partitioned* size of the drive. so if I remove the second partition on it, Windows recover may be happy. Of course, this means doing the image backup all over again. :-(
If this doesn't work, I can try moving the drive to an external USb case, imaging it with my old software on a box that it works on, restoring it to a much smaller drive (I have a bunch of those) and then making an image backup of that on the win 7 box. *sigh*.
It'd almost be easier to just reinstall from scratch again, but the fine-tuning and fiddling would probably eat up more "me" time (as opposed to "waiting" time
