drvimagerXP question

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I've downloaded drvimagerXP v2.2, and have successfully created an
image of my C: drive onto an external USB Drive (Drive E:) I am running
XP home.

In the event that my C drive crashed, thus preventing my machine from
booting up, how do I restore my C image to a new C drive (let's say I
am upgrading to larger drive at the same time?)

Can I create a bootable floppy that can access my USB drive with
drvimagerXp installed on it? Is there enough disk space for system
startup, mouse, USB driver and drvimagerXP? Or do you have other
suggestions? Thanks.
 
I've downloaded drvimagerXP v2.2, and have successfully created an
image of my C: drive onto an external USB Drive (Drive E:) I am running
XP home.

In the event that my C drive crashed, thus preventing my machine from
booting up, how do I restore my C image to a new C drive (let's say I
am upgrading to larger drive at the same time?)

Can I create a bootable floppy that can access my USB drive with
drvimagerXp installed on it? Is there enough disk space for system
startup, mouse, USB driver and drvimagerXP? Or do you have other
suggestions? Thanks.
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Maybe you could create a Windows XP Recovery console on your USB Drive
and run the Restore from there.
 
Mel, I am unfamiliar with your suggestion. How do you go about
creating "Windows XP Recovery console"?

If my laptop with the internal HD crashed, it will not boot from the
USB drive. The BIOS can only support floppy, CDROM or HD boot devices,
so the "Restore" thing is not going to help. I need to somehow be able
to boot and bring up drvimageXP and have it be able to see the E drive
(with the image) and the "new" C drive (blank formatted drive).

Surely some has done this in the past? I mentioned to someone who wrote
me direct that I have used Ghost to ugrade from 9GB to 30GB in the
past. But at the time, both drives were the 2.5" kind, and I was able
to use the ultrabay to mount the 2nd HD hence both drives were visible
to Ghost. When I tried to create an image of my current C drive with
the target being a USB drive, it could not see it.
 
Mel, I am unfamiliar with your suggestion. How do you go about
creating "Windows XP Recovery console"?

If my laptop with the internal HD crashed, it will not boot from the
USB drive. The BIOS can only support floppy, CDROM or HD boot devices,
so the "Restore" thing is not going to help. I need to somehow be able
to boot and bring up drvimageXP and have it be able to see the E drive
(with the image) and the "new" C drive (blank formatted drive).

Surely some has done this in the past? I mentioned to someone who wrote
me direct that I have used Ghost to ugrade from 9GB to 30GB in the
past. But at the time, both drives were the 2.5" kind, and I was able
to use the ultrabay to mount the 2nd HD hence both drives were visible
to Ghost. When I tried to create an image of my current C drive with
the target being a USB drive, it could not see it.
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You need USB Drivers for DOS.

Click Here --> http://www.theinquirer.net/?ar­ticle=10215

Works Great! I'm able to reboot to DOS, run GHOST.EXE and backup to my
Seagate external USB hard drive.
 
Mel, I am unfamiliar with your suggestion. How do you go about
creating "Windows XP Recovery console"?

If my laptop with the internal HD crashed, it will not boot from the
USB drive. The BIOS can only support floppy, CDROM or HD boot devices,
so the "Restore" thing is not going to help. I need to somehow be able
to boot and bring up drvimageXP and have it be able to see the E drive
(with the image) and the "new" C drive (blank formatted drive).

Surely some has done this in the past? I mentioned to someone who wrote
me direct that I have used Ghost to ugrade from 9GB to 30GB in the
past. But at the time, both drives were the 2.5" kind, and I was able
to use the ultrabay to mount the 2nd HD hence both drives were visible
to Ghost. When I tried to create an image of my current C drive with
the target being a USB drive, it could not see it.
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<Start> - <Help>

Enter <Recovery Console> follow instructions...

I'm investigating burning a Bootable CD, but I'm hampered at the moment
because I'm creating an Image of C: and it seems to be really slow. Was
the creation of your image slow too?
 
Can I create a bootable floppy that can access my USB drive with
drvimagerXp installed on it? Is there enough disk space for system
startup, mouse, USB driver and drvimagerXP? Or do you have other
suggestions? Thanks.
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I haven't tried drvimagerXP, but maybe creating an Ultimate Boot CD for
Windows would allow you to restore the created image, since UBCDWin
includes that program as one of its tools.

http://www.ubcd4win.com/index.htm

UBCDWin is a gawdsend.

HTH
 
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