you can do, but why dont you try an imaging software (true image, ghost,
BMR, ect)
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlightner at water.com]
Sent: 06 April 2007 19:15
To: Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Somewhat OT: Copying a Windows XP hard disk with NBU
Can it be done?
Situation:
Windows XP Pro laptop with NTFS partitions on 20 GB hard drive.
Would like to replace 20 GB with 60 GB drive and have all original
applications, documents etc... transferred.
Problem:
Windows Admins (I'm a UNIX admin) attempted to "Ghost" the system but
apparently couldn't due to the NTFS. Some Googling about Ghost and NTFS
does seem to indicate there are issues doing that but I don't know enough
about "Ghost" to speak intelligently on that.
Possible Solution:
Backup the 20 GB drive using NBU 5.1.
Install the 60 GB drive and let them do fresh XP Pro install.
Install the NBU client.
Restore the backup from the 20 GB to the 60 GB.
It seems this might cause issues due to sizes etc... that may be stored in
system config files. I'm wondering if the above would work or if it would
fail miserably due to this or other things I don't know about in Windows.
I know enough about Windows to be dangerous but not enough to insure all the
registry and other information is correct for the 60 GB drive.
If I couldn't do a full restore without mucking up the config is there any
suggestion as to partial restores that would bring in my applications
without having to reinstall each of them?
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