Patty,

When my old hard drive died, I bought a much larger one. I did
partition it first but with a different layout than my old one. Then I used
my ER disks to do the restore and it all worked perfectly, even the LFNs!

If your BIOS auto-recognizes & configures for your new hard drive,
that's great. If not, get into the BIOS setup before the computer boots to
the finish and adjust your settings for your new hard drive.

If you own Partition Magic, you can redo you partition scheme at any
time without hurting the post-restoration data on your hard drive. If you
don't own it, you must partition before you restore.

Hope this was some help.

--

...Bruce

Patty MacDuffie wrote in message
news:384d2ef9@hronntp01....
> I have a question on how Disaster Recovery works. I'm getting a new
> hard drive, quite a bit larger than my existing drive. My existing
> drive is 9 gigs, partitioned into 2 Primary Drives (one hidden), and
> five logical drives. I made a Disaster Recovery disk last night. When
> I put in the new hard drive, do I have to partition it before I do a
> recovery? (I assume I'll have to do some sort of partitioning in order
> to format the drive, and that the formatting has to be done first. ) Was
> the hidden Primary copied to tape? If I need to have the same number of
> partitions on the new drive, do they need to be the same size as the
> current ones?
>
> Reading over an exisiting post on the board, the LFN issue was brought
> up. Is there some problem with restoring a tape with Disaster Recovery
> and LFN's?
> --
> Patty,
> MS MVP, Desktop Systems
>
>
>

I do have Partition Magic, and I'm sure I will resize the partitions
afterwards. Thanks very much, Bruce.
--
Patty,
MS MVP, Desktop Systems

Bruce Rapee wrote in message
news:384da210@hronntp01....
> Patty,
>
> When my old hard drive died, I bought a much larger one. I did
> partition it first but with a different layout than my old one. Then
I used
> my ER disks to do the restore and it all worked perfectly, even the
LFNs!
>
> If your BIOS auto-recognizes & configures for your new hard drive,
> that's great. If not, get into the BIOS setup before the computer
boots to
> the finish and adjust your settings for your new hard drive.
>
> If you own Partition Magic, you can redo you partition scheme at
any
> time without hurting the post-restoration data on your hard drive. If
you
> don't own it, you must partition before you restore.
>
> Hope this was some help.
>
> --
>
> ...Bruce
>
> Patty MacDuffie wrote in message
> news:384d2ef9@hronntp01....
> > I have a question on how Disaster Recovery works. I'm getting a
new
> > hard drive, quite a bit larger than my existing drive. My existing
> > drive is 9 gigs, partitioned into 2 Primary Drives (one hidden), and
> > five logical drives. I made a Disaster Recovery disk last night.
When
> > I put in the new hard drive, do I have to partition it before I do a
> > recovery? (I assume I'll have to do some sort of partitioning in
order
> > to format the drive, and that the formatting has to be done first. )
Was
> > the hidden Primary copied to tape? If I need to have the same
number of
> > partitions on the new drive, do they need to be the same size as the
> > current ones?
> >
> > Reading over an exisiting post on the board, the LFN issue was
brought
> > up. Is there some problem with restoring a tape with Disaster
Recovery
> > and LFN's?
> > --
> > Patty,
> > MS MVP, Desktop Systems
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>

You must FDISK into partitions then FORMAT (FAT32) the partitions. The
partitions can be any size as long as it is large enough to hold the
Restore and if you backed up C:,D:,E: you have a C:,D:,E: on the new
drive.


"Patty MacDuffie" wrote in message
news:384d2ef9@hronntp01....
> I have a question on how Disaster Recovery works. I'm getting a new
> hard drive, quite a bit larger than my existing drive. My existing
> drive is 9 gigs, partitioned into 2 Primary Drives (one hidden), and
> five logical drives. I made a Disaster Recovery disk last night. When
> I put in the new hard drive, do I have to partition it before I do a
> recovery? (I assume I'll have to do some sort of partitioning in order
> to format the drive, and that the formatting has to be done first. ) Was
> the hidden Primary copied to tape? If I need to have the same number of
> partitions on the new drive, do they need to be the same size as the
> current ones?
>
> Reading over an exisiting post on the board, the LFN issue was brought
> up. Is there some problem with restoring a tape with Disaster Recovery
> and LFN's?
> --
> Patty,
> MS MVP, Desktop Systems
>
>
>

Thank you, Leon.
--
Patty,
MS MVP, Desktop Systems

Leon FB wrote in message
news:384ee51e@hronntp01....
> You must FDISK into partitions then FORMAT (FAT32) the partitions. The
> partitions can be any size as long as it is large enough to hold the
> Restore and if you backed up C:,D:,E: you have a C:,D:,E: on the new
> drive.
>

Patty,
You can also use Partition Magic to copy a partition from the old HD to the
new one.....temporally install both HD's in the puter on the same cable,
with the old HD's jumper set to master, and the new one's jumper set to
slave, make sure bios sees them both at boot, with the old HD set to
primary master & the new one set to primary slave. Then start partition
majic & use the copy partition feature to put a new boot partition copy in
the first part of the free space of your new drive, copy or make any other
partitions needed, then reboot with the new HD only (resetting jumpers if
needed) and it should come back just like the old one..........You dont have
to partition the new one first because the copy partition feature makes new
partitions on the new drive.....
I have done this a cupple of mo.'s ago and it worked better than anything
else I have tried for cloning a HD, now I have 2 puters up and running with
the exact same configuration.........
dont get me wrong, I like Backup Exec's Disaster Recovery
disks......but......for me, this way was so easy.......
If you have questions email me RS@altinet.net

RS
RS@altinet.net

Patty MacDuffie wrote:

> I do have Partition Magic, and I'm sure I will resize the partitions
> afterwards. Thanks very much, Bruce.
> --
> Patty,
> MS MVP, Desktop Systems
>
> Bruce Rapee wrote in message
> news:384da210@hronntp01....
> > Patty,
> >
> > When my old hard drive died, I bought a much larger one. I did
> > partition it first but with a different layout than my old one. Then
> I used
> > my ER disks to do the restore and it all worked perfectly, even the
> LFNs!
> >
> > If your BIOS auto-recognizes & configures for your new hard drive,
> > that's great. If not, get into the BIOS setup before the computer
> boots to
> > the finish and adjust your settings for your new hard drive.
> >
> > If you own Partition Magic, you can redo you partition scheme at
> any
> > time without hurting the post-restoration data on your hard drive. If
> you
> > don't own it, you must partition before you restore.
> >
> > Hope this was some help.
> >
> > --
> >
> > ...Bruce
> >
> > Patty MacDuffie wrote in message
> > news:384d2ef9@hronntp01....
> > > I have a question on how Disaster Recovery works. I'm getting a
> new
> > > hard drive, quite a bit larger than my existing drive. My existing
> > > drive is 9 gigs, partitioned into 2 Primary Drives (one hidden), and
> > > five logical drives. I made a Disaster Recovery disk last night.
> When
> > > I put in the new hard drive, do I have to partition it before I do a
> > > recovery? (I assume I'll have to do some sort of partitioning in
> order
> > > to format the drive, and that the formatting has to be done first. )
> Was
> > > the hidden Primary copied to tape? If I need to have the same
> number of
> > > partitions on the new drive, do they need to be the same size as the
> > > current ones?
> > >
> > > Reading over an exisiting post on the board, the LFN issue was
> brought
> > > up. Is there some problem with restoring a tape with Disaster
> Recovery
> > > and LFN's?
> > > --
> > > Patty,
> > > MS MVP, Desktop Systems
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >