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PiKe · 6 May 2009 at 16:08

I was experimenting by imaging a computer then restoring it onto a USB hard disk and attempting to boot, it gets as far as the windows splash screen and then it resets.

I tried restoring the MBR and not, and also restoring disc signature but no joy.

Any ideas?

bledd · 6 May 2009 at 16:11

xp is not made for booting from usb hard drives

that's the bottom line mate

*it is possible to do it, but requires a lot of file editing, this is and old guide

http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176

i've never bothered trying because USB is really slow (30mb/s max)

PiKe · 6 May 2009 at 16:12

bledd · 6 May 2009 at 16:24

didn't mean to burst your bubble like that :E

PiKe · 6 May 2009 at 16:27

Never mind, just wanted to prove to myself that Acronis would be able to restore on to a different sized hard drive, it could, and it kinda worked...

Ringiho · 6 May 2009 at 16:31

Acronis probably can restore to a different size drive, but XP resets the USB controllers on boot. This stops booting from USB, obviously without modifying anything

theheyes · 6 May 2009 at 16:41

You can usually restore to a larger partition but not the other way round.

PiKe · 6 May 2009 at 16:55

theheyes said:
You can usually restore to a larger partition but not the other way round.

Even if the data volume is less than the capacity of the drive you are restoring to?

Memphis · 6 May 2009 at 16:57

PiKe said:
Even if the data volume is less than the capacity of the drive you are restoring to?

You can if, as you say, the data volume is lower than the drive capacity. True Image will just adjust the partition size free space.

whiskycycle · 6 May 2009 at 17:41

Memphis said:
You can if, as you say, the data volume is lower than the drive capacity. True Image will just adjust the partition size free space.

I can confirm that....

Just changed from a Samsung 750gb F1 with a 120gb boot partition to a Velociraptor 75gb and as the source 120gb Windows partition was smaller than the destination 75gb VR drive, it went across no problem.

Worth clearing out any temp files and the like, plus things like System Restore before imaging and moving, but it works no problem.