I'm trying to move one of my Vista installs to a new, larger disk
drive. The older disk utilities I have (Partition Magic 7 and Ghost
v??) complain about errors in the Vista partition.
So, I figured I'd try using the "Complete PC Backup" and "Complete PC
Restore" functions. I created a complete backup to an external USB
drive. When I booted via the DVD and chose Repair, then Complete
Restore it wouldn't recognize the USB drive. I probably need to find
drivers to be able to do this.
Next, I pulled the drive from the external case and put it inside the
PC, and tried to restore but it gave me the following error:
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Windows Complete PC Restore operation failed.
Error details: There are too few disks on this computer or one or more
of the disks is too small. Add or change disks so they match the disks
in the backup and try the restore again. (0x80042401)
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Since the new drive was unpartitioned, I tried creating a partition
(larger than the old drive) then tried the restore again. Same error.
Okay, maybe the problem is that it's not finding a copy of Vista
already on the new drive. I did a quick partial install (up to the
point of the first reboot of copying files) on the new drive and then
tried a restore. The new install shows on the repair screen as one of
the version on tghe system, but it still won't restore ithe backup on
to the new drive (exact same error).
Now I wonder how reliable Complete PC Restore is, and how I can move
the existing install to a larger drive without reinstalling everyting
from scratch.
Al
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