Hard Drive Recovery - Please Help!

ernstn said:
Have you ever recovered to a different computer using your Acronis. I used "image for windows" and found it virtually impossible to recover to a new computer due to drivers etc.
The major problem turned out to be the Sata drive on my new computer.

After recovering the image all I got was a blue screen of death, so I am quite interested in hearing about your experience.

And if it works well, $50 is a small price to pay for complete security in my case. I was fortunate that I was just moving my system fom one machine to another, otherwise I would have had to install all my applications again, or as Microsoft suggested on their site, a similar computer to the original one.
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I've only done it twice and both times it worked without any problems. The Windows install booted, I uninstalled the drivers for the other computer, installed the relevant drivers and it worked flawlessly.
 
Have you ever recovered to a different computer
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No because even I know that, doing so is a bad idea.
The Windows install booted, I uninstalled the drivers for the other computer, installed the relevant drivers and it worked flawlessly.
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You were fortunate enough that the chipsets and general config of the target machine was sufficiently similar to the old one.

In general you will either get a STOP error (blue screen) or a system that boots into windows, and is highly unstable. Uninstalling drivers and installing new ones is not recommended. In cases like this it is always better to reinstall Windows, to save having problems later.

Oh and if you are fortunate to boot into Windows on a different machine you can be sure Windows will prompt you to re-activate it with Microsoft!!
 
Turiko said:
No because even I know that, doing so is a bad idea.

You were fortunate enough that the chipsets and general config of the target machine was sufficiently similar to the old one.

In general you will either get a STOP error (blue screen) or a system that boots into windows, and is highly unstable. Uninstalling drivers and installing new ones is not recommended. In cases like this it is always better to reinstall Windows, to save having problems later.

Oh and if you are fortunate to boot into Windows on a different machine you can be sure Windows will prompt you to re-activate it with Microsoft!!
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Both had NForce chipsets if I remember correctly. It was a case of "Hmmm, I wonder if I can do this" and it worked ;)
 
Tun@ said:
or use this
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
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I used to have that installed, that is how I learned how to back up my profile, but eventually I uninstalled it because it did not make sense to have an extension installed, using memory, that I was not going to use all that often. Once I made the back-up I still had to copy it to another computer manually, so I figured I could just copy my Profile folder myself, when I needed it, rather than rely on a backup program to insert an extra step into the process for me. Just my opinion.
 
Valid opinion, on client machines I simply copy the profiles. It saves heaps of time instead of fiddling with a backup agent.
 
Ok - Installed WinXP on another Drive, and the 320Gb was accesible - well, the Big partition was anyway....the 30Gb "Windows Partition" gives a "Corrupt Harddrive" error.

I managed to copy some files over, on a very SLOOOW pace from the Big Partition - Will be trying to Recover some of the OS-Partition's files tonite, AFTER I copied all my important files.

Where are my E-mails stored? I Was using Office Outlook 2007
 
Keeper said:
Ok - Installed WinXP on another Drive, and the 320Gb was accesible - well, the Big partition was anyway....the 30Gb "Windows Partition" gives a "Corrupt Harddrive" error.

I managed to copy some files over, on a very SLOOOW pace from the Big Partition - Will be trying to Recover some of the OS-Partition's files tonite, AFTER I copied all my important files.

Where are my E-mails stored? I Was using Office Outlook 2007
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In one of two places...

C:\Documents and Settings\{User Name}\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

or

C:\Documents and Settings\{User Name}\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Look for the biggest and most recently accessed PST file. Should say "Outlook.pst".

You can safely move that anywhere. I keep mine in my My Documents Folder so that I know where it is next time. When you set up Outlook again, just point it to that PST file.

That should have all your mail folders and appointments and contacts in that one file.
 
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I use

Recover My Files.

Is it normal for it to take this long.

It is an 150GIG partition, it's been running for 48 hours and only done with 15% :eek:
 
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