Can't backup...

Priapus

Priapus

Priapus

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Howzit guys.

I wanted to create a image of my Vista drive onto another drive, so I could change over to a 200Gb HDD without too much hassle. Easy, I thought.

Evedently, not. :(

I opened up Vista's back up and restore application and it see's the vista drive + a storeage drive as the main os = 300 odd gigs. The drive I have vista on is 160gb that I want to back up. Not the 250gb.

Reason it is doing this is because, for some reason, Vista's boot files, (bootmgr, ect) is stored on the 250GB. :confused:

Is there anyway I can move it over to the 160GB drive so Vista can only back up the one drive and not both of them?


Any help would be great!

Thanks all!
:cool:
 
Well I got lazy and really didn't feel like doing the above as it meant I had to write all that information down.

So, what I did was unplugged all my hard drives ( yes, all 6 of them) and only left the main OS drive plugged in. Obviously, Windows would now not boot, due to a missing BOOTMGR file.

I then decided to use the Windows Vista recovery on the DVD. Loaded it up, selected repair then selected "Fix start up issues".

Once this was done..wahla! She now boots up and I am able to do the back up. ( Doing it now) :D

I must just find out how to delete the files off the old HDD. The bootmgr ones...:(

Anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks!:cool:
 
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